Tag: environment

  • The Filmmaker’s Hut

    The Filmmaker’s Hut

    I absolutely love this cabin, simple shape beautiful textured shingles and amazing curved ceiling and lake views. Inspirational design and use of materials, the article was found on the dezeen blog, written by Jon Astbury, enjoy

  • The hidden planning permission you need to build in your garden

    The hidden planning permission you need to build in your garden

    The hidden planning permission you need to build in your garden

  • Placing Ecology at The Heart Of Construction

    Placing Ecology at The Heart Of Construction

    In recent years, as energy efficiency targets for new buildings have tightened, attention has turned to cutting the embodied carbon of buildings by switching from materials like concrete and steel to lower carbon alternatives like timber.

  • RetroFirst Campaign

    RetroFirst Campaign

    We are obviously very interested in the going’s on in the construction industry, as we strive to put together best practice building in a world running low and natural resources and not wanting to be too dramatic but literally running out of time. So it really struck a nerve when I came across this article…

  • Wooden Prefab Cabin – Off Grid

    Wooden Prefab Cabin – Off Grid

    I have mentioned this before on this blog but I love the idea of off-grid living. And a great way to ‘dip your toe’ into the world of ‘green living’ is with a smaller dwelling of garden room. This article from Treehugger features DLT (dowel laminated timber) which is amazingly strong and considerably greener than…

  • Rooftop Solar Benefits Your Neighbours

    Rooftop Solar Benefits Your Neighbours

    I’ve often thought we should start adding solar panels to our garden rooms, with some rooms up to 8m in length, that’s a lot of roof space that can be utilized. I hope to design and build at least one garden room this year that uses solar panels on its roof. Having just read this…

  • Cool Modern Cabin Design

    Cool Modern Cabin Design

    I’m always on the look out for great new ideas to use in some of our garden room designs. New materials, shapes colours or looking to nature for inspiration. Well this one has it all! In this article for Treehugger, Kimberley Mok, shows us round this beautiful little structure. I love the striking design, that…

  • A Beautiful Alternative to the Traditional Cemetery

    A Beautiful Alternative to the Traditional Cemetery

    This article first caught my attention for the beautiful cedar ‘garden room’ looking structure in the photography. As I started to read the article it became quite clear this was an idea much more than a structure, a complete re-thin as to how we approach death and the spaces we go to mourn loved ones.…

  • Lockdown Garden Room

    Lockdown Garden Room

    We had discussed designing an building a garden room for sometime but with two young boys under the age of five it was proving hard to find the time. Then suddenly we had all the time in the world as we were forced to stay at home. With the most beautiful spring I can remember,…

  • Floating Finnish Cabin

    Floating Finnish Cabin

    Following on from the article about traditional Japanese charring of wood… we have just come across this article about a floating cabin in the woods. The cabin isn’t made with the charred timber cladding but the painted black timber looks just as striking in this amazing landscape. I absolutely love the light through the windows…