If you are thinking of adding a garden room to your outdoor space, or maybe you just want to makeover an existing one, here are a few tips on how you can create a stylish, practical room to enjoy spending time in this summer.
Stylish interiors and soft furnishings
A garden room will provide comfort during all seasons. Traditionally, summerhouses were named because they were only comfortable in the summer months, they seldom featured insulation, double glazing and electrics and offered little protection from the elements. Nowadays, Garden rooms and summerhouses can offer everything that is needed for comfortable year-round use. The fabric of the buildings is designed to retain heat via full insulation and double-glazing. It is this guarantee which means you can splash out on soft furnishings and interiors without worrying they will become ruined by their damp, moist surroundings.
Our PTMD Collection based at Coolings Lifestyle will help you add a personal touch to your interiors, from lighting, pots, glassware, furniture, to textiles, candles, diffusers, (wall) decoration and clocks. The premium PTMD home interiors brand offer a sophisticated and elegant collection of home accessories which we have selectively handpicked from the 7000+ product range available. PTMD stylists travel the world to ethically source some of the most unique products, collaborating with professional artists and skilled producers. We are delighted to be able to offer such a chic range of interiors and soft furnishings.
Use light to your advantage
Complementary lighting is a vital part of any home or garden design. A beautiful garden building should be rewarded with complementary lighting both inside and out. It will enable you to enhance the features you want to show off, create your desired ambience and assist with the practicalities and functions that the room is intended for. We have an impressive range of lighting solutions across all our sites but, when considering lighting for the outside of your outbuilding, some well-placed, solar powered lighting will help light and guide the way from your home to your garden house.
String lights and table lights will help create a great ambience and scene when enjoying an evening sitting on the deck or patio area of your garden house. Our outdoor wall art collection is always popular among customers looking to brighten interior walls, particularly in outbuildings.
Consider the building’s exterior
A garden mirror can be a great addition to your outdoor space as it helps to bounce light into dark corners and spaces, and gives the illusion of depth and space beyond the wall on which it hangs. Hanging one on the exterior of your garden house will enable you to bring the inside out, extending your living space into the garden to create your very own outdoor living room! Outdoor art and clocks are also a wonderful way to achieve the same effect.
Pots and blooms
Plants and pots are another fantastic way to add a little bit of personality to a space. Whether you are after a country cottage feel, beach-inspired retreat or a sleek, modern zen-den to escape to after an exhausting day gardening, our garden centres are full of inspiration. Glazed, wooden, terracotta fireclay/resin, hanging or balcony – we have containers to suit all styles and tastes.
Have you considered adding interior window shutters?
Adding shutters to your garden room windows will not only create a wonderful talking point with visitors, but it will improve the energy efficiency of the building too. Not only are wooden shutters a natural insulator, thanks to the make up of wood’s cellular structure, but they will serve as an additional barrier to preventing heat loss in the winter. During summer, they will help to passively cool the building by preventing sunlight and stifling air from entering. Adding shutters to windows and doors are one of the most energy efficient improvements you can make to your garden room or home without using energy in the process!
On top of that, window shutters will help you control the amount of natural light, and the angle of the light that enters a room. Plus, they offer privacy from neighbours and beautiful aesthetics. Bespoke wooden shutters can be designed to complement your interior design style as well as the style of your home to complement it perfectly.
Whatever you are planning to use your garden room for, decorating it to reflect your personality and style will create that extra special space you will want to spend time in.
