A garden home office and family cabin

A two room cabin for
music, work and play

Location, Claverham, North Somerset

Size, 7.5m x 3m, 16.5sqm inside

Materials, British larch, standing seam metal cladding, radiata plywood interior

Type, Flat roof, 2.5m

Our cabin for Isabelle and Danny was designed for all the family. The cabin is divided into two spaces by a insulated and sound dampening storage wall – A music room and workspace space for Danny, an larger family space for Isabelle and the children.

To define the two family spaces we used oiled British larch tongue and groove for the main family space and anthracite textured standing seam metal cladding for Danny’s smaller space. Both rooms have their own handmade double glazed door and opening window.

Every detail hand crafted

The interior spaces have been fully insulated to a high level to achieve a thermal U value meeting building regulation for a new building.

Radiata tongue and groove plywood was chosen for its distinctive patterned grain throughout and all of the finishing details are handmade from the same radiata plywood.

Heating is supplied by two infrared panels.

DESIGN

MAKING

Exterior

. British planed larch tongue and groove cladding, OSMO UV oiled for colour fastness. The alcove is stained and oiled.

. British larch window reveals.

. Standing seam metal cladding finished with a mat anthracite colour coating. 25+ year lifespan.

. Zinc galvanised metal sheet cladding for rear and end exterior – for boundary fire building regulations.

. Stainless steel air vents.

. Foundations for the cabin using galvanised steel ground screws.

. Metal gutters with gutter mesh to stop leaf blocking from the beech tree in the garden. 25+ year maintenance free lifespan.

. Roof covered with 1.5mm EPDM rubber membrane.

. Rooflight into the small room – 0.6m x 0.6m

. External 2-gang power socket.

. Handmade doors and windows with double glazed toughened glass with a low-e coating to reduce infrared and UV.

. Insulated with 100mm wool fleece throughout, with an added 25mm of insulation on the walls to meet building regulations for thermal insulation U value for new buildings.

. Decking, dark caramalised bamboo.

Interior

. All walls, floor and ceiling finished in 18mm radiata plywood. All surfaces are water based varnished and lightly sanded for a smooth protected finish.

. Zinc plated metal conduit surface mounted ‘metalclad’ electrics.

. Conduit lighting with copper plated light shades by Fraser Bessant Lighting, Bristol.