What is GartenHaus about?

We are often asked what made us set up GartenHaus? Like a lot of small business ventures it wouldn’t have happened without the right people in the right place at the right time.

We are based in Surrey where property and land prices are sky high. We knew of friends and family with young people coming home from university and no realistic prospect of getting on to the housing ladder locally. We knew of families with elderly relatives who wished to move closer together to see and support each other, and of course more than ever recently people are working from home and need more space for a home office and place to work in relative quiet. We are all for building control to preserve our beautiful countryside, that is after all why we live here. However, people have their lives to live, and our attractive low visual impact buildings can help people make the best use of their existing house and gardens and perhaps avert the cost and upheaval of moving.

Between us we have many years of planning and building experience and we know what good materials and labour cost. We were really unimpressed by the build quality of a lot of the garden buildings being offered and thought we could build a much better building for not much more money. Cedar cladding on the outside might make a glorified shed look prettier, but unless you have a well built and insulated building you are not going to be comfortable in it all year round, or you are going to spend a small fortune in heating it.

So what we would like to do for you is take the pain out of getting the garden building you want.

We will work with you to develop a bespoke design and layout. We can guide you through the planning process and get you confirmation from planning that what you we build for you is legitimate before you even start. We can do give you as much or as little help as you need; planning design and drawings, the building completed to a weathertight shell with walls roof doors windows and water resistant membrane, or we can deliver a the full turnkey solution – everything completed and we hand you the key.

If you wish you can do parts of the project yourself, kitchen assembly, decoration, tiling, flooring, exterior cladding – we will tailor our build to your requirements.