Now finished, this studio for Jo Angell (www.joangell.com) looks great in the Spring sunshine.  See News on March 26th for more detail.  Jo is designing an amazing canopy fot the Thrive charity garden at Chelsea this year (www.thrive.org.uk) and there was a model of it on the kitchen table yesterday.  It looks fantastic and will look wonderful full size.  If you are going to Chelsea this year make sure you check it out.  Jo is very happy to show people the studio so if you want to know what it looks like give us a call and we can arrange.

A small office in Cambridge we completed last year but our client has just completed some further landscaping so we called in last week to take some photos.  It was a freezing cold day with occasional snow flurries but it was lovely and warm in the office thanks to the underfloor heating and the excellent insulation.  Third photo shows what the garden looked like before!

Not quite finished but a good example of how our customers impact on our designs.  Jo Angell is a designer of fantastic textiles, wallpapers and other wonderful products; check out her web site: www.joangell.com.  Anyway, Jo wanted lots of light in her studio and opted for meter wide doors and windows in the front wall, slightly larger than the norm.  But they look fantastic and, even on the dull day when we took these photos, there was no need for artificial light.

The studio replaces a huge corrugated iron structure used by the previous owner as a pottery workshop and the neighbours are very pleased it has been replaced with a smaller and much more attractive building.  More photos to come when the studio is finished.

We completed this music studio last year and recently went back to get some better photos. It includes a double layer of plasterboard to reduce sound transmission and the client has added curtains to reduce the sound escaping through the windows and doors. The studio includes a shower room with WC and is clad in cedar. Windows and doors are aluminium clad timber, double glazed and argon filled. The client has been partiocularly impressed with the thermal insulation: “We have the heating on for two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening and, even in the recent cold winter it has never been cold in the studio”.

Edden: 2.4x 2.4m; £6,500 complete, £4,700 bare board

Collier: 6 x 3m; £17,800 complete, £15,320 bare board

McClelland: 3 x 3m; £12,100 complete, £9,900 bare board

Rawlings: 3.2 x 3m; £11,700 complete, £9,500 bare board

Wikinson: 5 x 5m; £23,000 complete, £19,800 bare board

Fowkes: 6 x 3m; £13,500 complete, £11,000 bare board

Insulated garden office with verandah

We recently completed this insulated garden office in our home town of Harpenden. With a hipped roof clad in cedar shingles and a verrandah for the client to hang his hammock, the office provides a good sized work space away from the clients two young chindren. Although the building required planning permission because it is higher than the 2.5m limit, this was readily granted. With 120mm of insulation in the roof and our standard 100mm thick walls and floor, the office has been very warm even during the recent cold. External cladding is vertical cedar and the decking is larch. The photo is not great but we shall be taking more if and when the we see the sun again.

Our latest build has provided a home gym for a fitness enthusiast and replaced a very old shed.  Sited on a sloping site, the building is clad in long lasting cedar with double glazed, argon filled windows and doors.  As well as providing power to the gym for the exercise equipment, we also extended the Sky cable to provide entertainment whilst working out.  The gym incorporates our usual underfloor heating and plasterboard finish.  Not the greatest photo but weather has been so poor recently; better to come in the Spring!

A budding playwright wanted a small but comfortable den in which to write but there was only one place it could fit in this London garden.  So, we designed a long thin building with most of the glazing and door on the front wall to give views back to the house and over the garden.  Clad in durable cedar, the studio enhances the recently re-designed garden and provides a warm and secluded space in which to write.  It also looks a lot better than the shed that was there in the first place!

We are having a pre-season clear out and offer the following at significantly reduced prices (all +VAT).

Awning/canopy/shade sail

The heavy duty fly sheet on our Pavilion (below) can be supplied as a separate awning/roof eg: for outside seating or a play/learning area.  Covering an area 5 x 5m, the structure is 3.8m high at the centre and 2.2m at the ridge.  The fly is manufactured from Precontraint (Ferrari industry) fabric (590g per sq m) with exceptional resistance to UV degradation, good tear strength and shape retention and inherently flame resistant.  There is also an attractive, beige coloured rooflining manufactured from acrylic canvas.

External waterproof cover with posts: £990; internal fabric rooflining: £590; cover and lining together: £1390.  All prices for supply; please call for installation costs.

Buildings

We have three display buildings on which we are offering significant discounts.  Basic details below but please call for more detail.  All buildings can be seen in Harpenden.

Canvas lodge

Canvas lodge

Timber office/store/shelter

This timber framed building has many attractive features including a triple skinned skylight, one triple glazed and one double glazed opening window plus a fully glazed door.  The roof is clad in cedar shingles and the walls in Douglas Fir/Larch.  It has 120mm insulation in the roof and includes underfloor heating and internal electrics.  It measures 2.4 x 2.4m externally (8 x 8 ft) less the triangle by the door.

Normally retailing for £6,800 we are offering this building for £4,950 installed (within 120 miles of Harpenden).

Pavilion

Our pavilion offers accommodation for up to 6 with two separate insulated rooms and a play/sleeping loft.  Overall dimensions are 5 x 5m and an insulated base is included.  Price new: £6,250; our price: £4,900.  Delivery and installation within 120 miles of Harpenden: £450.

Other buildings

A few examples of the other buildings we design and install to provide additional, highly insulated space for private and commercial clients including this four classroom block to be installed in the Summer.  With a floor area close to 160 m2, installation costs amount to less than £1100 per sq metre.

Please call or email for more detail on any of these structures