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One of the questions that gets posed a lot by would-be buyers of garden rooms is whether or not you need to get in touch with your local planning department for permission prior to erecting an outbuilding in your back garden. Hopefully this article will clear up a few common worries.

A modern garden building is so much more than a shed or summerhouse. It's easy to create a stunning venue for entertaining, working or simply enjoying being outdoors (even when it rains). Garden buildings can be as tasteful as any other part of your home. 

The modern garden room is fast becoming a practical, and cost-effective way in which to create much needed additional living space. If you need additional living space, but cannot extend your property, then the modern garden room could be the answer. They are comfortable and stylish, while providing you with additional daily living space that can be used all year round.

Working from home can be a challenge. It is difficult to stay motivated when your home life and your personal life suddenly merge into one. If you talk to any freelancer, you will find that this is the element of working from home that they struggle with the most. They either end up working too much, or they don’t work enough. Either way, it is important to get some structure to your day and to be able to separate your home life and your professional life effectively. This is where contemporary garden offices come into play. Read on to discover more about the benefits of them.

Whether you have a tiny patch of urban paradise or glorious sprawling lawns, summer is the season where we all want to enjoy our gardens to their fullest. Smart magazines are full of inspirational pictures of summer dining tables, children playing in the sun and cool new ways to turn your garden into the type of luxury retreat normally seen at bijou resorts. Of course, in the UK our summer weather can complicate al fresco living, but the dream of a luxury summer escape in your own garden is not as far away as it might seem with the addition of a garden room.

The first thing to consider with a practical outdoor office is the purpose, followed closely by placement.

Why do you want the office, what work will you carry out from it? And where is the best place to build? Once you understand this, you can better decide on a whole range of other things.

As with any other sort of office, your outdoor space should be designed to help you work. There is little help in an office space that you struggle to operate efficiently in.

More and more of us are working from home these days. In fact, according to Small Business UK, half of the UK’s workforce will work from home by 2020. With this fact in mind, attention turns to where exactly you can set up an office and work in peace, especially if you’re starting up your own business which requires even more hard work than working for someone else.

At the first hint of summer we Brits love nothing more than to get outdoors in our back gardens for a touch of al fresco dining - and the more friends and family we have round to celebrate with us, the better.

That means having plenty of cosy physical space so that folks can congregate together and chat, as well as somewhere covered to place the nibbles and drinks. A Gazebo is an idea for this type of occasion. Not only is this type of structured platform covered so that the odd summer shower doesn’t ruin the goodies or have our guests running indoors to the kitchen, but it also looks great as a garden centrepiece.

The rise of ‘mindfulness’ techniques, together with a focus on ‘cleaner living’ has seen the rise in the number of customers coming to us here at Cabin Master and asking about the possibility of turning a garden room into a bespoke yoga studio. And we think it’s a great idea!

It’s not unusual these days to walk past the back gardens of a row of city townhouses and find a handful of garden rooms in any given street. By far the majority of households use a garden room as a home office. That’s because it’s a space where you can simply switch into work mode and where all your work-related paraphernalia can sit (rather than on the dining room table where it’s likely to go amiss).