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Contemporary Green Garden Shed and Building Ideas and Designs

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Greenhouse Shed / Solar Building
Greenhouse Shed / Solar Building
Backyard BuildingsBackyard Buildings
The Aurora can be labeled as a greenhouse shed combo. It includes four large aluminum windows with tempered glass for safety. On top of that, it features 509 cubic feet of storage space for gardening tools and equipment or plants. With the many windows, light is aplenty. However, there is even the option to add solar shades so you can control the amount of sunlight coming in. In addition, you can add a power ventilation fan to remove excess heat and bring in cool air inside. If you looking to grow plants and vegetables all year around and store stuff, the Aurora greenhouse shed combo is just what you're looking for. It's a customer favorite.
Modern-Shed Bay Area Home Office
Modern-Shed Bay Area Home Office
Modern-ShedModern-Shed
Dominic AZ Bonuccelli
Inspiration for a small contemporary detached office/studio/workshop in San Francisco.
Shoffice
Shoffice
Platform 5 ArchitectsPlatform 5 Architects
Alan Williams Photography
Contemporary garden shed and building in London.
Kravig Garden Building
Kravig Garden Building
Tod Drescher ArchitectureTod Drescher Architecture
Green roof in full sun is harder than in the shade. Sterilized shale is used here over slightly sloped rubber membrane with sedum plants plugged into shale and then watered with drip irrigation for first two summers depending on rain amount. Garden fence holds back deer, rabbits and ground hogs. Roof scuppers provide water to the butterfly garden. Raised beds mean less bending over and better weed control. tkd
Meditation Pavilion
Meditation Pavilion
David Coleman / ArchitectureDavid Coleman / Architecture
Meditation Pavilion by David Coleman / Architecture.
Inspiration for a contemporary detached garden shed and building in Seattle.
Courtland Place
Courtland Place
Cedar Springs Landscape GroupCedar Springs Landscape Group
Cameron Street Photography
This is an example of a medium sized contemporary detached garden shed and building in Toronto.
Garden Room Art Studio
Garden Room Art Studio
JML Garden RoomsJML Garden Rooms
JML Garden Rooms
Inspiration for a contemporary garden shed and building in Other.
West Ferry Studio
West Ferry Studio
Estes/Twombly Architects, Inc.Estes/Twombly Architects, Inc.
Photo of a contemporary garden shed and building in Providence.
Contemporary Custom Shed
Contemporary Custom Shed
NC Shed BuildersNC Shed Builders
The Contemporary Shed style has been around for a long time and can be seen all throughout North Carolina. But we’ve given the Contemporary Shed a modern look that will get noticed by your neighbors. The primary feature of the Contemporary Shed is the single slant roof. The roof has a gentle 2/12 pitch and comes with 29 gauge metal roofing in the color of your choice. The tall wall includes a set of sturdy double doors as well as transom windows to bring in light and beautify the shed. Additionally, we give it 1 ft overhangs on 3 sides and extend the front up to 2.5’ for a great look! Like our other sheds, the contemporary shed comes with treated floor framing, ¾” Plywood floor boards and 2x4 wall construction. The Contemporary shed comes with 5' double door opening, leveling concrete blocks, LP Smartsiding, Nichia Fiber Cement, James Hardie Plank siding or vinyl siding. Also, this shed can be modified to fit different styles and looks but with the same general shape.
Earlsfield
Earlsfield
Your Garden RoomYour Garden Room
Inspiration for a contemporary garden shed and building in London.
Tanglewild
Tanglewild
Twist Tours Real Estate and Portfolio MarketingTwist Tours Real Estate and Portfolio Marketing
Allison Cartwright
Design ideas for a contemporary detached greenhouse in Austin.
Seattle Area Modern Art Studio
Seattle Area Modern Art Studio
Modern-ShedModern-Shed
Modern-Shed provided an amazing modern studio for an artist in the Seattle metro area.
This is an example of a small contemporary detached office/studio/workshop in Seattle.
Berkshire Garden Office and Guest Room
Berkshire Garden Office and Guest Room
The Swift Organisation LtdThe Swift Organisation Ltd
At 8.15 meters by 4.65 meters, this is a pretty big garden room! It is also a very striking one. It was designed and built by Swift Garden Rooms in close collaboration with their clients. Designed to be a home office, the customers' brief was that the building could also be used as an occasional guest bedroom. Swift Garden Rooms have a Project Planner where you specify the features you would like your garden room to have. When completing the Project Planner, Swift's client said that they wanted to create a garden room with lots of glazing. The Swift team made this happen with a large set of powder-coated aluminum sliding doors on the front wall and a smaller set of sliding doors on the sidewall. These have been positioned to create a corner of glazing. Beside the sliding doors on the front wall, a clever triangular window has been positioned. The way this butts into the Cedar cladding is clever. To us, it looks like the Cedar cladding has been folded back to reveal the window! The sliding doors lead out onto a custom-designed, grey composite deck area. This helps connect the garden room with the garden it sits in.
Portfolio
Portfolio
UserUser
The Potting Shed is how a shed should look. It has a steep pitched roof with a generous overhang which, along with the small pane windows gives it a traditional look which will blend into any garden.
Neue Farbe für das Gartenhaus
Neue Farbe für das Gartenhaus
AnneLiWest|BerlinAnneLiWest|Berlin
©AnneLiWest|Berlin Neue Farbe für das Gartenhaus: Farrow & Ball's 'Bone' No 15 als Exterieur Eggshell. Die Farbe wirkt mal grünlich, mal grau. Das Wichtigste aber – sie passt perfekt zum Grün der Pflanzen und des Rasens.
Bike Workshop with Garage Door
Bike Workshop with Garage Door
Studio Shed - Live Large. Build Small.Studio Shed - Live Large. Build Small.
From our Designer Series (custom vs signature). A Studio workshop that has transformed the backyard space. What was once a weedy and unused grassy corner of the yard is now a useful garage space and the inspiration for hardscaping, paths, and a new seating area.
The Bunkie
The Bunkie
BLDG Workshop Inc.BLDG Workshop Inc.
Please see John Hill's excellent Houzz article: http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/19452313/list/The-Gable-Goes-Mobile--Micro-and-Mod
Tiny Homes
Tiny Homes
Fōcl DesignFōcl Design
Contemporary garden shed and building in Gold Coast - Tweed.
Garden building made from reclaimed materials
Garden building made from reclaimed materials
Refined SpaceRefined Space
Garden rooms have become very popular in recent years, but almost all seem to be cut from a very generic, uninspiring cloth. We love to create truly bespoke, one-off garden rooms that complement and take advantage of their surroundings to truly make a difference to their owner’s lifestyles. We’re bursting with ideas of how we can create innovative designs and use alternative methods and materials to create something truly unique. Most of the materials used to create this garden room were left over from a house build. We needed storage and just couldn’t justify throwing insulation, timber concrete moulds, old double glazing units and pallets into a skip - so we put them to good use. The higher ground level of neighbouring gardens allowed us to create a design that featured a sloping roof high enough at the south side to hold a hammock. A flat, rubber coated roof is supported by timbers strong enough to support a sedum roof. Rain water run off is collected in a recycled fruit juice drum for use throughout the garden. The children have made bird boxes for friendly nesting wrens, nuthatches and robins who come for the bird feeder, but stay for the free accommodation. We ran armoured cable to a separate junction box to provide power and lighting, giving the structure purpose beyond mere storage.
Burleigh - Studio with bathroom
Burleigh - Studio with bathroom
BIBO BuildBIBO Build
This is an example of a contemporary garden shed and building in Sydney.

Contemporary Green Garden Shed and Building Ideas and Designs

Our garden sheds and outdoor buildings don’t have to be dumping grounds for tools, bikes, bins and all the extraneous items that haven’t found a home inside the house, instead they can be whole new spaces that you can turn your design eye to, just like any other room of the house. If you’ve lived in a small house or flat with no outside space, you’ll appreciate the added bonus an additional structure can give you. Homeowners across the UK and Ireland are transforming garden sheds, building garden offices and extending their homes to create contemporary garden rooms to really make the most of the space we have, because as we know, in some places in the UK and Ireland, space is like gold dust.

Which garden building should I go for?

It always makes sense to work with what you have, so if you have a garden shed already, think about how you could use it if you cleared it out and gave it a lick of paint. If you have nothing to work with apart from space and a budget, then the logical process is to think about what you need the space for. Garden sheds only need to be as big as what you need to store within them, so they could be an easier and cheaper alternative structure to a full garden building if you just need to store garden items, tools and bikes somewhere. If you have loftier ambitions and dream of a contemporary garden building that will be an additional living or working area, a separate garden room could be the answer. Large converted garden sheds or purpose built garden rooms can be used for separate work offices, studios, creative spaces, living areas, pool houses and so much more. With luxuries such as wireless internet and underfloor heating, and endless paint and decor options, the possibilities for your contemporary garden building are boundless. For the environmentally-conscious, eco-sheds featuring solar panels are an energy-saving solution that could benefit your household, and garden pods – prefabricated pod buildings for use as an office or extra living space – are easy, ready-to-go garden structures that are usually eco-friendly and energy efficient. Working from home often calls for a dedicated home office away from the distractions of the rest of the house, so garden offices or studios offer the ideal set-up: completely separate from the main house but close enough for emergencies, food supplies and bathroom breaks. They will also hopefully offer a peaceful and focused environment in the tranquility of your garden. Buildings in your garden don’t always have to be about practicality. You could let your imagination run wild and escape to the woods with a contemporary treehouse, and then your garden would certainly be the envy of all the children in the neighbourhood. Rope walkways, ladders, turrets, slides and firemen's poles are enough to keep any child occupied for hours on end. Even if you don’t have children yourself, an elevated wooden shelter attached to a tree is a good a place as any to enjoy your outdoor space, and isn’t that usually what garden buildings are all about? Besides the extra space they give you; garden rooms, summerhouses and converted garden sheds are wonderful for their location – outside in your garden. When the summer months come around, and we hopefully enjoy some good weather, all you want to do is spend as much time outside and with a garden building it’s possible to do so without compromising on furniture, shelter and all the amenities of indoors.

What design should I choose for my contemporary garden shed or garden room?

Sheds come in a full range of materials – metal and plastic garden sheds may prove more durable and weatherproof but classic wooden garden sheds offer the most opportunities for creative expression. If you’re thinking of a bigger structure, and appreciating your garden or outdoor area is important to you, large glass bifold doors can transform your garden room into a light-filled sunroom that opens right out onto your garden. For eco-lovers and those that want to retain a lush garden look, grass covered walls and roofs will help your garden room to blend in with its surroundings or wooden cladding will also give a natural look if you don’t want to to go all out with the grass. When it comes to your interior design, a habitable, high-spec garden room is really no different from any room in your main house, so the decisions will come down to personal style, taste and needs. Whatever outdoor structure you’re thinking of building or converting, be it a contemporary garden shed, treehouse, garden office or summerhouse, you’ll be able to find inspiration for all of them by browsing the photos on Houzz. Define your search by area, style or size to find what you want more easily.
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