Self assembly timber garden office video
Self assembly timber garden office video If you're looking to start a new business from home, or if your current home business is in desperate need of additional storage or meeting space, you could consider a timber garden office as an alternative to a portakabin, a...
The best foundations for a summer house
The vast majority of GardenLife's buildings come with a pressure treated timber base, but one of the fundamental rules for any garden building is that you need firm, level foundations onto which you can secure your base. If the ground beneath the summer house or log...
Unique garden office design
Project Name: Unique garden office design Location: Edinburgh Client Brief: GardenLife Log Cabins were tasked to provide a unique version of our 70mm Laggan timber garden room for use as a private office and studio all year round. The client requested 88mm laminated...
Modern log cabins versus traditional log cabins
Modern log cabin DIY kits take traditional timber designs and make them easier, cheaper and more convenient Friends in the US sometimes talk about their plans to build a traditional log cabin, either as their main home or a holiday home. It seems to be part of the...
Timber summer house construction video
Timber summer house construction video Planning to build your own timber summer house or garden room this year? This helpful video from GardenLife shows time-lapse footage of how the Wye clockhouse style summer house was built by our construction crew. The first stage...
Bespoke timber office building
We've put together some more notes and photos on a GardenLife bespoke office build (following the launch of our bespoke garden building design service). Project Name: Bespoke timber office building Project Location: Dalkeith, Scottish Borders Client Brief: Design and...
Timber garden buildings: low price versus good value
Most of us in the real world want to keep the price down when we buy a garden building. And because many timber garden buildings look more or less similar in website pictures, it’s tempting to think they’ll be similar once they’re built. But it’s important not to...
Barbecue all year round with a garden BBQ hut and grill
Next to the extraordinary Poison Garden at Alnwick Gardens in Northumberland is a quaint timber cabin. With its rustic logs and octagonal shape, it’s out of a story by the Brothers Grimm – one of the more sinister ones, judging by the skull-and-crossbones on the...
How to set up a home office on a budget
At the end of 2013 over 4 million people in the UK were self-employed – and the numbers keep on rising. Not all of these people are working at home, of course - the 4 million includes contractors, freelancers and trades people who work on-site for customers and...