Spring has definitely sprung this weekend, even if mother nature is a little ahead of the calendar! It’s time to start thinking about what you want from your garden this summer and we’re here to help you consider a garden outbuilding that is more than you though possible. A garden outbuilding doesn’t have to have […]
We recently completed this handmade cabin for a customer. It has one bedroom with a shower room, open plan lounge/diner/kitchen area and veranda. It is double glazed, insulated and has a cedar shingle roof making it suitable for use all year round. Cabins are a good way of increasing space when you need it and […]
A recent customer required a bespoke timber workshop, but wanted it to fit in with the surroundings and be easy on the eye. We’d like to think we met the brief – what do you think?! Built with C24 construction grade heavy duty framing, and clad using traditional Swedish tanalised shiplap with joinery windows under […]
Why more of us are building offices in the garden The so called ‘shoffice’ seems to be the must have for the garden these days. Forget the humble shed in the back garden – gone are the days where the shed was a space to stash un-wanted clutter that you just couldn’t bear to part […]
Cabins – handmade in Devon There are many definitions of the word cabin, and I think the one that most suits us most is ‘a small one-story dwelling usually of simple construction‘. We build our cabins from the ground up – we do not import panels from Europe or further afield as many ‘Cabin’ manufacturers […]
Your garden shed, or other garden timber building is either something you may have inherited or something you have invested in, and this guide will help you explore and decide on the ways to keep your garden shed or other timber garden buildings not only looking good, but protect it and keep it in tip […]
At inside Out Buildings we love it when a plan comes together. We were asked to make a bespoke timber garage for a couple, something that would be totally functional, but also in keeping with the surroundings. It was decided that we would build in heavy duty framing, using fully pressure treated tanaliased timbers. The […]
We all know that playing outside creates healthier minds and bodies. A wooden playhouse stimulates the imagination, it becomes the fairytale castle, the fortress defending the enemy, the local village shop, the pirate den on the Island of Faraway — whatever your child wants it to be. Children need to play, freedom and independence and […]
At Inside Out Buildings, one of our most popular timber garden buildings is a timber garden store. In real terms, I guess it doesn’t matter what a timber garden building is called. It can be whatever you want, or need it to be. My feeling is that it is called a timber garden store – […]
At Inside Out Buildings we use 19mm shiplap premium redwood tanalised timber to build all of our timber garden buildings. It is fair to say that not all tanalised timber is the same. The definition of tanalised timber is: a number of different chemical preservatives and processes (also known as timber treatment, lumber treatment or […]