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What do you need to do to prepare your garden shed for winter? Nothing! Your garden shed is perfectly capable to survive this winter and the next 10 winters without anything you need to do if it is well maintained, tidy, clean, and functional. And with “functional“ we mean mainly well protected against water and…

Well, this is, of course, entirely dependent on how you want to use your summer house. Most usages that make you spend time in the summer house regularly are a good reason for insulation because it would make the summer house a much more comfortable place to stay during winter and during the heat of…

Why commute every morning through heavy traffic if a walk through the garden into your own fancy garden office could do the trick? In these times of change, many get the opportunity to work from the comfort of their homes in their contemporary garden offices. We introduce seven of our best garden offices for you…

Garden sheds are becoming more and more popular in the UK. As a matter of fact, such a garden room is an invaluable addition to any garden, but it needs to fit into one’s budget. Finding the right balance between price and quality can be tricky. With this in mind, we have narrowed down our…

Building an outdoor garden shed, a storage shed, or a garden room is probably the easiest way for most to add much-needed storage space or living space. However, the traditional wooden shed has got competition by sheds from metal or even plastic, promising easy construction and maintenance-free usage. Even though the decision for a certain…

Wooden garages are becoming more and more popular mainly because they just look much better than most alternatives. Wooden beams and planks are a natural material of great strength, durability, sturdiness and beauty, just fine for a structure like a wooden garage, and they have a number of characteristic features that make them an optimal…

Summer houses gained popularity with the rise of garden centres and DIY stores in the 1980s and have continued to become more and more popular ever since. Garden buildings serve a wide variety of uses as a studio for writing, painting of crafting, a garden office, a gardening hub, a permanently inhabited extension of the…

Do you already own a wooden log cabin or do you consider buying one to make it a weekend cottage? If you think of buying one you will rather think of choosing a larger size because a weekend cottage needs to have all the amenities of a normal house – maybe even more. Of course,…

Although we have a long experience producing quality garden summer houses, garden sheds, garden storage and related wooden garden buildings, and we also follow the performance of our products by our usual five-year warranty so that we know that the products have a good durability and a long life span, regular maintenance will still help…

Cycling gets more and more popular in the UK and so do garden sheds; so, is it a good solution to store your bicycle in the garden shed if you are fed up with bikes cluttering your hallway, entrance or cellar? Can you or your better half just not stand the sight of your muddy…

Autumn is often the time when we sit in the summer house and hear the rain splattering or drizzling onto the roof. Nobody really loves rain, but every gardener will know its value for nature. Nature will always be much better able to cope with too much water than with too little. Water is the…

Walk to Work Day is over. Have you ever walked to work? Sure it would be nice to be able to walk to work every morning instead of punching your way through heavy traffic, but for most people that remains a dream. Walking or riding a bicycle to office is a good fresh start into…

Garden sheds get more and more popular in the UK, and due to their popularity, the assortment has become so rich, that there is probably one for you already out there that exactly fits your requirements. Let’s have a closer look on the basic considerations playing a role in the choice, before jumping to purchasing…

Most wooden log cabins are offered without external sills. The reason is of course that the wall thicknesses usually are about the same than the thickness of the window frame. So external sills are not needed to protect the wall beneath the window against rain, like in buildings with thicker walls. Another thing is when…

A summer house, a garden shed or just any kind of garden outbuilding can be a target of thieves not only because they want to steal anything stored in there, but more often so because they are looking for tools they can use to break into the main house. So to secure your summer house…