Garden office - loo or no loo?
joeybumdy
3 years ago
We are thinking about converting a brick outbuilding to a garden office/kids den. It currently has a little loo, access is from the outside. Would it be worth keeping this or is it eating into too much space?
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3 years agoSo we think we’ll keep the loo, thanks all. If we move the front door to the other side it’ll make the space more usable, I’ve been playing around with layouts and this looks the best.
Juliet Docherty