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...
Bespoke log cabin in the woods!
Following on from last months' post announcing GardenLife's new bespoke garden building design service, we've pulled together a few notes and photos on another bespoke project we undertook not long back down in the Borders. Project Name: Bespoke Holiday Log Cabin...
What’s the best eco-friendly timber treatment?
If you’ve ever browsed eco gardening forums or bee-keeping websites, you’ll have come across debates about the use of wood treatments and paints. The debates focus on fears that conventional oil-based treatments, when used on beehives, planters or raised beds, harm...
Be inspired by a timber garden office
As more people become fed up with commuting and opt to work at home, we’re hearing more and more about the home office, particular the timber garden office. The design of garden buildings has developed accordingly – alongside summerhouses and traditional sheds, you...
Innovative timber building design
This year GardenLife Log Cabins launched a new bespoke garden building design service in order to allow people to customise our existing cabin designs, or to provide us with their own plans for an innovative timber building design. Over the coming months we'll be...