Creating a beautiful new space in your home is easier than you might think with a garden room that gives you extra living space and enhances your lifestyle options. You can create additional accommodation, a home office or a garden gym when you invest in a wooden garden room, and you can rest assured that you will also be making a good choice for the environment.
Why Wooden Garden Rooms are the Green Choice for Modern Living
Creating a beautiful new space in your home is easier than you might think with a garden room that gives you extra living space and enhances your lifestyle options. You can create additional accommodation, a home office or a garden gym when you invest in a wooden garden room, and you can rest assured that you will also be making a good choice for the environment.
At GardenHouse24, we only use high-quality, sustainable timber in our garden rooms so that we can deliver an eco solution that is more cost-effective and greener than brick or concrete extensions. Here, we’ll take a look at the options and explore how our garden rooms can provide you with the lifestyle upgrade you are looking for.
Your Environmentally Friendly Home Extension
Moving house is a choice that comes with a great deal of stress and expense, and adding a wooden garden room to your property could allow you to enjoy all of the benefits of additional space and save you money and stress at the same time. It’s also an environmentally sound choice for many reasons, including:
- Sustainable materials. Sustainability is a major consideration in the building industry, and a wooden garden room usually has a much lighter impact on the planet than brick or concrete equivalents. This is because we use the finest Nordic slow-growing spruce to build our garden rooms, and this is sustainable and biodegradable timber that has been responsibly sourced from well-managed forests. The timber we use most commonly is Nordic/Baltic Spruce, and we also use Baltic Pine on some of our models. Both of these are softwoods that grow in cold climates in northern Europe, and they grow densely to provide a great quality, lightweight wood.
- Low-impact construction. Wooden garden buildings can be built more economically than brick, concrete or steel structures, requiring less energy to manufacture and transport. Many of our designs are delivered in a partially assembled condition, and these are quick to put together and finish to a high standard. The wooden build process is kinder to the local environment, reducing impact on the land, using less water than building with concrete and requiring fewer tools and manpower than a traditional extension build.
- Energy efficiency. An energy-efficient build will reduce wasted energy both in the process of your build and in your finished garden room, saving you money and lowering your carbon footprint. The timber we use offers good natural insulation and helps to maintain consistent temperatures within your garden building, so you will be able to find energy solutions that work for you. You can explore options such as heat pumps and solar energy to maximise the green potential of your garden room.
- Greater versatility. A wooden garden house can be used in many ways, including creating a garden gym or relaxation space, and this means that you have plenty of options to adapt as your lifestyle changes. For instance, you might wish to repurpose your children’s playroom as a home gym when they get older, or you might continue to add new elements to your home relaxation area to include a sauna or plunge pool. Because a wooden garden room is built in a modular style, it is more flexible than a traditional build and can be added to or reused in many different ways.
A wooden garden room is not only an excellent choice for your home and your family, but it is also a better choice for the environment than other types of buildings. Your wooden garden house offers a whole host of benefits in the long term as well as in the short term, and you can customise it to suit your unique requirements and preferences.
How to Lower your Carbon Footprint in your Garden Room
There are many ways to lower your carbon footprint in your home, and you can do this at the same time as making the most of your garden room. Here are our top tips for designing, building and using a garden room that is as good for the environment as possible:
- Choose sustainable materials. When you are sourcing a garden room or shed, you should check out the credentials of any company you are considering buying from. You can ensure that all timber used in your wooden garden room is from a sustainable source, looking out for certification such as FSC and PEFC, which offer assurances that your timber has been responsibly grown and harvested. You can also repurpose and reuse furniture and materials to decorate your garden room.
- Consider your foundations. As part of the construction process, you will need to make decisions about the type of foundations you want to use in your build. You can opt for timber frame foundations rather than a concrete base, and there are several options, such as environmentally friendly membranes that do not damage the local environment in the process of building your garden room.
- Explore efficient energy options. Depending on your unique situation, you may be able to make use of renewable energy in your build, including solar panels or heat pumps that can save you money as well as give you cleaner energy. These options will be much more efficient than non-renewable electricity or gas, and the best solutions for you will depend on your lifestyle and the way that you intend to use your garden room. You can also use high-quality, eco-friendly insulation materials, such as wool, and choose double or triple-glazed windows to maximise heat retention.
- Don’t forget the interior. Your garden room eco vibe can be carried through the whole project when you choose low-impact decor options such as low-VOC paints and stains, and furnish your garden room with preloved or repurposed furniture. There are several options for lighting and decorating your new space, and taking the environmental impact into consideration will help you to make each of these decisions wisely.
You can also take steps to improve the environment around your new garden room, planting wildflowers and insect-friendly plants to encourage biodiversity and create a truly beautiful place to spend time.
Environmentally Friendly Garden Rooms
Here at Gardenhouse 24, we believe that sustainable timber garden buildings can provide a practical and beautiful solution for everyone. We can adapt our extensive range of designs to suit your space and your lifestyle, and we have many years of experience as a distributor and retailer of premium timber products in the UK. Our catalogue includes an impressive range of garden buildings made from Nordic timber, including home gyms, sauna cabins, home offices, summer houses and garden rooms.
We are a factory-owned store, designing, manufacturing and selling our products, and we also offer installation as an additional service if you need it. Our professional team will be happy to help you find the perfect solution for your home and garden, whether you are looking for an extra bedroom for your teenage children or a relaxing area to dine and chill out with your friends. This is a cost-effective, hassle-free way to gain extra space in your home, and you are sure to find the perfect solution