Cosy garden room interior featuring a sofa bed, with a rug on the floor and garden views through the window

Extra space for when your family come to stay

Extra space for the family to stay at Christmas? 🎄🎅🏻   This London family has a beautiful home but needed the extra space for when their family came to stay at Christmas. 🇨🇦 🍁   This 5.2 x 3.5m garden room has been finished with zero maintenance Cedral cladding and comes complete with a toilet, […]
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garden office home gym
Step Cedar Garden Room
Garden Cinema Room
Garden room with hot tub

Need some extra space? Then there are 5 reasons to consider a garden room. 

Give yourself or your children some ‘space’. Sometimes you need space to work, do yoga, work out or hang out and the house isn’t big enough or private enough. Perhaps your kids are getting older and taking over the lounge with their friends, and you’ve got nowhere to go but the kitchen. The wonderful thing […]
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Communication, trust and reliability is key to any building project

Communication, trust and reliability are key to any building project… This stunning 5m x 3.5m Clifton with a 3-sided canopy was completed in just 2 weeks, despite the recent bad weather. This garden room, clad in Canadian, western, red cedar will be a kids’ den and entertainment space, next to a swim spa (coming soon) […]
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A hi tech garden room with gym equipment including a stationary bike, treadmill, weights, and yoga mat

Top 10 reasons to have your own home gym

Are you thinking of designing your own home gym?  This stunning 6m x 3m bespoke Clifton Garden room in Virginia Water has been equipped with the latest Philips Hue smart tech. Ceiling-mounted speakers and Philips Hue lighting really make this garden room special both day and night. Check out the night photo to see what […]
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Create your own Garden Room
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Are garden rooms insulated and suitable for year-round use?

This is a classic example from the Clifton range that will be used as a home office. Our customer in Woking, Surrey was working from their kitchen table due to COVID. Now that working from home is set to continue indefinitely, they decided to add extra living space. This is 4m x 3m with cedar […]
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My Retreat Garden Rooms featured in an article on both Mail and Metro online this week.

We were so proud and delighted to be featured in an article on both the Mail Online & Metro this week. We were interviewed by the Mail/Metro to see how we had been affected by COVID and why we started My Retreat Garden Rooms. We, like many of you, had to change the way we […]
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How much do garden rooms cost

How much do garden rooms cost?

There are a number of garden rooms on the market from simple log cabins at one end to bespoke garden rooms at the other. They range in price from as little as £6,500 for a 3.5m x 2.5m (if you are prepared to build it yourself) and can be as much as £90,000 or more, […]
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Garden Rooms Check List

Do garden rooms need planning permission?

Garden rooms do not require planning permission, all our garden rooms are built and installed to comply with the permitted development guidelines, so long as your garden room falls within the following permitted development guidelines: Your garden room has a maximum height of 2.5m It is less than 30 square metres It must not be within 2 metres […]
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Adding value to your home with a garden room

Does a garden room add value to your home?

How to add value to your home. We moved to our 1930’s semi when our second child was born as we needed the extra space. After moving in, we were keen to extend the property and the question was whether to do a single-storey ground floor extension or extend into the loft. We decided that […]
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