My next door neighbour has had one of these "garden rooms" built. Built from scratch from wood and has PVC type external panelling. Watched the guy build it and he was obviously a serious talented and experienced craftsman (I can see why these guys use nail guns rather than power screwdrivers!)
Anyway the room is so big, it is literally about 2m from the edge of the house decking, and has about 1m space around the other 3 sides to the boundary. No room now in back garden for a washing line or even a table and chairs.
Yes it looks good and works for them but longer term, not sure if it is a selling point for the house.
Me, on the other hand, when I got the extension built, I had to cut my concrete panel garage down in size and brick up the end that was cut (which had the garage door in it). So I currently have a man cave which has wood burner, dart board, beer fridge and some other odds n sods in it. But I am seriously thinking of giving myself a DIY project of lining it all out properly with stud, insulation, gyproc etc. I have seen some local trades guys advertising either garage roof replacement or, in some cases, they actually put a new roof pover the exisiting corrugated roof. I would hate to spend money kitting the place out only to get leaks from the corrugated (looks like asbestos but apparently isn't). I do quite often get condensation dripping, especially if I have had the woodburner (whose chimney goes straight up through the roof) but I have been told that this would stop if it was properly insulated.
I would just need to decide what the end result was to be - was it to be a home office that I could work from or will it be an entertaining "garden room" (in which case why would I bring folks out the back through our extension with dormer windows and patio doors to sit in a garden room?)
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