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Malvern East
Malvern East
MirabuildMirabuild
Contemporary detached guesthouse in Melbourne.
Lovely Los Osos "She-Shed"
Lovely Los Osos "She-Shed"
A Place To GrowA Place To Grow
Photo of a medium sized shabby-chic style detached guesthouse in San Luis Obispo.
Boathouse
Boathouse
Teaselwood DesignTeaselwood Design
Lake House Guest house
Small classic detached guesthouse in Burlington.
The Cottage
The Cottage
Beachy Barns LTDBeachy Barns LTD
Design ideas for a medium sized traditional detached guesthouse in Columbus.
Uniquely Shaped Mobile Home
Uniquely Shaped Mobile Home
A Room in the GardenA Room in the Garden
In order to give our client plenty of garden space to work with while providing them with a spacious, accessible home, we designed something extra special that no other company were able to provide for them. We had to prioritise both the amount of space that would be left in the garden, and a comfortable sized home that our client would be content with.
Granny Flat
Granny Flat
UserUser
Exterior Courtyard
Photo of a small nautical detached guesthouse in Sydney.
Encinitas Accessory Dwelling Unit (PRADU)
Encinitas Accessory Dwelling Unit (PRADU)
Cross Construction Inc.Cross Construction Inc.
This Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) is 745 SF complete with two bedrooms and two baths. It is a City of Encinitas Permit Ready ADU designed by Design Path Studio. This guest house showcases outdoor living with its wood deck and outdoor fire pit area. A key feature is a beautiful tiled roll-in shower that is ADA compliant.
Cabin One Minimal Haus
Cabin One Minimal Haus
Cabin OneCabin One
Photo of a large modern detached guesthouse in Berlin.
Bespoke Summer House and Landscaping Project, Manningtree, Essex
Bespoke Summer House and Landscaping Project, Manningtree, Essex
John O Connell Building SolutionsJohn O Connell Building Solutions
The team built a stunning, fully insulated, heated summer house complete with a bathroom, shower and laundry room, wrapped in Siberian Larch cladding with a fibre-glass roof and bi-fold doors to create a smooth transition from inside to out. The bespoke space, designed to provide the family with an additional living area and self-contained guest house, leads out to a luxurious hot tub area, complete with sleek black patio slabs. Bespoke design and build summer house Self-contained guest house fully equipped with electricity and heating Outdoor hot tub/spa area Toilet and shower room Laundry room Living area with sofa bed Aluminium bifold doors Siberian larch cladding Spotlights and ambient outdoor lighting Landscaping and granite-style patio
Benedict Canyon Beverly Hills modern home guest studio with modern pond water fe
Benedict Canyon Beverly Hills modern home guest studio with modern pond water fe
Whipple Russell ArchitectsWhipple Russell Architects
Benedict Canyon Beverly Hills modern home guest studio with modern pond water feature & landscape design. Photo by William MacCollum.
Photo of an expansive modern detached guesthouse in Los Angeles.
Modern Shed
Modern Shed
This is an example of a modern detached guesthouse in San Francisco.
Roswell Renovation
Roswell Renovation
Yvonne McFadden LLCYvonne McFadden LLC
Jeff Herr Photography
Photo of a beach style detached guesthouse in Atlanta.
Exteriors
Exteriors
Grant Ritchie PhotographyGrant Ritchie Photography
Grant Ritchie
Medium sized contemporary detached guesthouse in Other.
Lovely Los Osos "She-Shed"
Lovely Los Osos "She-Shed"
A Place To GrowA Place To Grow
Kim Snyder Photography
This is an example of a medium sized vintage detached guesthouse in San Luis Obispo.
Blackwall Granny Flat
Blackwall Granny Flat
Backyard Granny'sBackyard Granny's
Hilda Bezuidenhout
This is an example of a medium sized contemporary detached guesthouse in Central Coast.
The Cottage
The Cottage
Beachy Barns LTDBeachy Barns LTD
Photo of a medium sized rural detached guesthouse in Columbus.
Grasshopper Studio
Grasshopper Studio
Wittman Estes LandscapeWittman Estes Landscape
Nic Lehoux
Design ideas for a small modern detached guesthouse in Seattle.
Bay Area Guest Home with LEGO Volkswagen Bus
Bay Area Guest Home with LEGO Volkswagen Bus
Modern-ShedModern-Shed
The owners got smart with their shed. They installed a built-in desk with storage for art, sewing and photography supplies. Also, check out that sweet LEGO bus, man.
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.
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

Guesthouse 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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