Home entertainment ideas: How garden rooms aren’t just for working
Our bespoke garden rooms are really versatile and can be used for a range of purposes. While a lot of our customers need a garden office, we’ve also had the pleasure of creating some wonderful spaces including a home cinema, children’s playroom and even a garden pub
As the ultimate entertainment space, our bespoke garden rooms can provide that extra square footage needed, especially when we are still spending so much time in our homes.
Here are a few of our favourite builds where creating a space for entertainment and fun was top of the agenda…
Garden Cinema
Garden room cinemas are a great option when the family want to watch more than one show at the same time.
We can provide a world class audio visual experience without breaking the bank.. We have also developed our own secret formula cinema screen paint "MovieGloop", which allows us to turn any flat surface into a screen for use with a projector.
Our plasterers are particularly good at skimming screen surfaces to precisely the level of flatness and smoothness required to achieve the best effects.
This is what we did for Kate and Simon, who wanted their bespoke garden room to double as a home office and cinema room.
This home cinema even has its own toilet, so you don’t have to traipse back into the house in the middle of a movie.
Playroom
Another of our favourite builds was this playroom for Siân and Simon, and their three boys. They wanted an extra space in the garden to replace a dilapidated old shed.
The brief included a portable cedar-clad storage bin that doubled as a bench, monkey bars snaking round the side of the building to a fireman's pole in their climbing frame play area and a door to a hidden tree behind the building to allow access for maintenance.
All windows were double glazed for cosy winter nights, and we put in bi-folding doors so they could open the space up when the weather was warm..
Garden pub
Fed up of long queues at the bar? Build your own and you’ll always be first to get a drink. We’ve always wanted to build a garden pub for someone, so we were more than happy to create this stylish, wooden bar for one of our customers. We think it looks very inviting and look forward to the Grand Opening. Cheers!
Party den
Here’s another of our favourite entertainment builds…. James needed a home office, a party den, and a carpentry workshop.
A movie nut, James wanted us to build him a home cinema where he could watch films with his family, as well as the Six Nations with a beer or six on winter afternoons.
The constraints of a Victorian terraced property (garden only 5m wide, prone to flooding) presented interesting challenges. The resulting structure has two separate spaces, each with its own door and window, and a bi-fold partition that concertinas off to one side, allowing the full space to be enjoyed.
We installed a dashboard ventilation system from an Alfa Romeo 156 above the projector to exhaust hot air out to the garden.
The partition between the two spaces has its own screen painted on it in our secret formula cinema screen paint "MovieGloop".
We also installed a quadrophonic sound system with multiple front-and-rear / side-to-side balancing controls, so the audio could easily be switched from room to room.
A plethora of Mission M71 speakers powered by a hefty Cambridge Audio amplifier provides sufficient volume and richness of sound to turn the whole building and adjoining patio into a booming party space at the flick of a few dozen switches.
