Garden Office Swindon

Our latest garden room is a bespoke design providing office space for two businesses. Expanding businesses soon outgrow the spare room and a garden room can provide the extra space you need without the need for renting office space and facing a lengthy commute.





Internal partition creates a second office space.



Initial sketches are turned into detailed CAD drawings for final approval before manufacturing begins.

In most cases basework for your garden office is completed in a day.

As part of the installation we are there to unload the cabin. It normally takes around an hour to unload with two people assisting if youare planning on building it yourself.

Basework is complete and timbers are sorted as they are carried to the site.





We fit damp proof course to the floor joists as extra protection. Timbers are normally pressure treated but this provides an extra protection against rising damp. Damp proof course comes in various widths but normally it will cover at least two floor joists and can be sliced with a stanley knife once stapled.




Iniitally you will need to identify the half wall timbers that form the start of the build.

Careful reference to the construction drawings and accuurate sorting should ensure quick progress with the walls.

Add doors and then windows as you build before they get too high to lift them into place.

Walls complete and roof joists can be added.

Roof boards on and ready to fit the bitumen roof tiles. Very popular on most residential homes in Canada and an attractive finish to any garden room.

The floor is insulated with celotex boards and finished with fsc approved 18mm board to provide a perfrect base for the final finish of carpet tiles.

Ceiling insulated, plasterboarding complete and painted.

Sockets and lighting fitted.

The exterior painted with two coats of Osmo wood stain and protector. (Red Cedar)

Ready for the carpet and office furniture to be added.

Thankyou Dave and Nicky for the tea, biscuits and the chilli!

The Cabin Living team.

Garden Office - Scotland

Garden office space can be a quick solution to creating extra space with minimal disruption to the family home. With a young family and another baby on the way a Garden Room from Cabin Living is the perfect solution.

The site in this case was on a slope in a tiered rear garden.

The timber shown is close to level so this gives a fairly good indication of the gradient.

Blockwork is in place front and back to support the surrounding ground prior to lating the concrete slab.

Here you can see the ballast and ramps up the paths to the back garden. A base of this size will take 4-5 ton bags to complete.

Mixing within the base, can save time and ensures a mess free build.

Base is mixed, levelled and left to set. It is advisable to complete beasework a few days prior to the cabin delivery.

Not many pictures of the initial build this time!

Up to roof height and ready to fit the tongue and groove roof boards.

The interior of the Aylesbury log cabin.

Celotex insulation was fitted between the joists in this case as the floor joists have a depth of 70mm which is sufficient to take the 50mm celotex boards.

A nail gun or two makes light work of laying the floor and fixing the roof boards.

Insulated ceilings help to reduce heat loss in winter and reduce the heat penetration through the roof in summer. 50mm rockwool slabs and tape and jointed plasterboard are installed in the ceiling as part of the garden office insulation option.

As part of your garden office installation we do offer to paint internally or externally but in this case the customer opted to do this work themselves.


Our final part of the installtion is connection of electrics and a network cable.



Cat5e network socket and one of the double sockets for power.

Mini consumer unit fitted in the cabin. As part of the installation the main consumer unit in the home was also upgraded to meet cuurent regulations.

The customer chose to paint the interioir, this is an option or alternatively in can be left as natural wood,varnished or coated in linseed oil.

We hope to have an update with decking and a painted exterior soon.