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How to Site a Log Cabin in Your UK Garden: 8 Steps

Picture this: a beautifully crafted log cabin arriving on a flatbed lorry at 8am on delivery day. The driver’s cup of tea is going cold in the cab because nobody told him the side gate is 850mm wide, the cabin panels are 2.4m, and the only way round is through next door’s garden. The neighbour is on holiday. We’ve seen it more times than we’d like to admit, and almost every time it could have been avoided with a half-hour of siting work the week before. Siting is the bit that gets skipped. Most people fall in love with a…

Designing a Daily-Use Garden Office That Works All Year

You don’t need a marketing brochure to picture a garden office. You need to picture sitting in one at 2:47 PM on a wet Tuesday in February, with a Zoom call in twenty minutes and a stiff shoulder from yesterday’s screen glare. That is the version of a garden office that matters, because that is the one you’ll actually use, or quietly stop using by March. The difference between a garden building you visit occasionally and one you sit in every working day is not the colour of the cladding or the shape of the door. It is a handful…