Things to think about when designing your garden office

Introduction

Some people might be spending 30, 40 50 hours+ sat in their garden office, so its so important that the room is made as comfortable as possible. That you carefully design the whole building, so that its energy efficient, that’s its comfortable, and so its easy to maintain, so you are not wasting time, painting, staining, varnishing when you have other more important work to do.

So, because we have built so many garden office in Wales, hundreds of garden offices, we thought we would have chat with our builders and our garden room designers, and provide some top tips, to help you to design your garden office.

Make it low maintenance

Let’s say you have a lot of work to do, let’s say you are a solicitor and you work from home, so you hire us to build a garden office for you. You may not want to every year be varnishing, be painting be staining the garden office, because it can take up a lot of time, yet at the same time, you don’t want the garden office to start to look run down, and not maintained, you want the building to look as good as new. So, what we would recommend is to make the building low maintenance, and to do this we would recommend using composite everywhere you can, composite decking, composite cladding, composite facia board.

We would recommend composite, because its so easy to maintain, a simple wipe down with a rag is all it needs. It not made entirely from wood, so it never ever needs painting, and it can be made to look like real wood, but the benefit is with composite, it may have the appearance of wood, but it’s made from composite, so it never needs painting.

Air conditioning

If you’re going to be spending let’s, say 30 hours + in your garden office working during the summer, we would recommend having air conditioning added. Because on a really hot summers day, it can get very hot and stuffy in your garden office, and it might not be comfortable to work in the garden room.

It might get too hot, even if the bi-folding doors are folded back, the whole room might still be very hot, and therefore we would recommend a quality air conditioning unit is added, we used to recommend a good quality air conditioning unit, for example Mitsubishi make very good quality air conditioning systems, and our electricians can install the air-conditioning system for you. Alternatively, you could always put a freestanding air conditioning unit inside the garden office, this is the cheaper option.

Solar panels

Energy prices have gone through the roof, so to heat and to have lighting in your garden office, will often mean that the homeowner has higher energy bills. That’s because before the garden office was built, you may be worked from the kitchen table, so it was the only the house that needed heating. Yet because a garden office is detached from the house, it’s another building that will need heating, we can therefore install solar panels onto the roof, which can help you to generate electric.

We can install multiple solar panels onto the roof, this is a great way to generate electric, but also to help the environment.

If you have a large garden, why not have solar panels on the roof of your garden office, but also have a large concrete slab built by us, and then have even more solar panels in your garden, helping you to generate even more electric.

The garden office needs to be well insulated

Here Britain it is cold a lot of the year, and say in November or December when you’re working in your garden office, you still want it to be warm inside. And when you switch on the electric heaters, you will want the room to heat up say in a very short period of time, for this is to happen the garden room company that built the garden room needs to add insulation not just in the walls, but in the roof, and the floor. Then when an electric heater is switched on, if the room is properly insulated, then it should heat very quickly, offering a comfortable room for you to get your work done.

What’s great about a garden room that has a lot of insulation is that, it makes it a lot cheaper to heat the room. If the room is not insulated, heat will simply escape out of the roof and walls, so this means that to heat an uninsulated garden room, means the electric heaters have to be switched on practically all the time, to try and heat the room, however, with an insulated garden office, that has good quality insulation, good quality doors and windows, it much easier to heat the room, so the heating hasn’t got to be on as much.

Think about security

You might have said a Apple computer in your garden room, and other valuable items, so we would recommend getting bi-folding doors and windows with quality locks, but also blinds within the window panes, so you can shut the blinds, and then a burglar cannot see within the garden room so easily. We would recommend quality CCTV is fitted, and our electricians can install CCTV at an extra cost for you.

Think about having decking fitted

If you’re spending a lot of time with excel spreadsheets, sending emails, and having video calls on skype, well your going to need to take a break from work, and have a nice cup of coffee or cup of tea, and you might want decking, with patio table and chairs, we can build decking for you, we would recommend composite rather wood, simply because composite decking lasts much longer, and also composite decking can help you to save time, because wooden decking needs staining or painting, and composite doesn’t, it doesn’t need painting, so you can save time, by not having to paint the decking.

We can build a garden office, with decking built Infront of the building, so you have a place to take a break and enjoy a nice espresso in the sunshine.

Think about which doors you want

You may want bi-folding doors, so in the summer, you can fully open the bi-folding doors, and you can let the fresh air flood into your garden office while you work. If you want a cheaper option, then we can fit a upvc door, we would highly recommend if you opt for bi-folding doors, then to have blinds fitted within the window panes, so that you can adjust the blinds, because otherwise on a summer’s day when it’s very bright, the sun might be so bright, it is shining your eyes too much, and you might not be able to get your work done.

Yet if we install bi-folding doors, and windows that have blinds within the window panes, then you can adjust the blinds, to let as much light into the garden office as you like.

Sound proofing

You might live next to a busy road, and the noise from passing trucks, cars and vans might be distracting as you do work in your garden office. Our builders can add extra thick insulation into the walls, and our builders can also add sound proofing. Therefore, if you live next to a busy road, we would highly recommend adding sound proofing to the walls, it doesn’t cost that much extra, but it can make a huge difference, you often can still hear the road and noise generated outdoors, yet the noise will be a lot less when you have had sound proofing added to the walls.

Do you build garden rooms in The Vale of Glamorgan

Garden rooms are very popular in The Vale of Glamorgan, because in areas like Cowbridge, there is a lot of nice countryside, and many homeowners in Cowbridge have houses that look out over miles of countryside. And often they hire us to build a garden room, because they want a garden room built in Cowbridge Vale of Glamorgan, so that they can take nice bottle of wine, and unwind in their garden room. With prices starting from just 18k our garden rooms offer amazing value.

Do you build garden offices and rooms in Cardiff?

The vast majority of the garden rooms that we build are built in Cardiff. We have built many garden rooms in Cardiff, we have built garden bars, garden rooms and garden offices. We build our garden buildings right throughout the year, with prices starting from just 18k its clear to see why so many homeowners hire us to build their summerhouses. What’s great about choosing Kingsley is that we offer long guarantee, we so confident that the building will be built to a high standard, because we employ highly experienced builders, that on every garden room we build in Wales we offer a long guarantee on every garden building we build.

Can you also install the electrics for us?

Yes for additional cost, our electricians can install the lighting, the electric heaters, and also the power sockets. We have electricians that can install all of the electrics for you.

Would you like a free quote for a garden room to be built in Wales

We build garden rooms right through Wales, from Cardiff through to Swansea we build top quality garden rooms that are made to last. We offer long guarantees  on our garden rooms, so why not call us for a free quote?