Garden Rooms Blog - My Retreat Garden Rooms Surrey

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]