A garden annexe can have many uses, but one of the most practical may be if you need extra space for people to stay in if you have visitors. A two-bed garden annexe could be just what you need for this purpose.

Entertainment is often a primary objective when considering adding a garden room to your home. While some may find it useful to have a home office in there, others, especially those who seldom or never work from home, may have some very different ideas.

Some of those might be for your own entertainment, such as an art studio or a musical rehearsal room. However, others can have a sociable element if you have friends round, like a mini-bar or a games room.

No doubt some will have had a TV in there and invited friends around to watch World Cup games, while such a facility can supplement summer garden activities like having a barbecue.

How Can A Garden Annexe Help With Hospitality?

However, this sort of hospitality is usually the kind where friends and family come to visit and then head home, which is fine if they live nearby. But what if you want to have people staying over?

Many homes have a spare room, although this can sometimes be the place where an awful lot of clutter gets put when you move in and this never changes. Indeed, sometimes the benefit of building a garden room is to create more space.

However, constructing a garden room can also provide a place for people to stay in. This could be used at various times:

  • When you have family (especially kids) visiting in the summer holidays
  • When family visit for a special occasion like a birthday
  • When you have visitors coming for Christmas

How Could A Garden Annexe Enhance Christmas?

Christmas can be a great example of this. A YouGov survey last year found that:

  • 42 per cent would spend Christmas with at least one parent
  • 41 per cent would spend it with at least one child
  • 27 per cent will spend it with at least one sibling
  • 12 per cent will spend it with grandchildren
  • 11 per cent will spend it with in-laws
  • 5 per cent will spend it with one or more close friends

Many of these visits will involve local travel to family or friends living nearby, but not everyone lives close to their relatives. Having extra space to accommodate overnight stays will provide a great opportunity for people living further away to stay over.

Indeed, this approach could also make it possible to see people you might never normally get to see in the festive season.

Having a two-bed annex garden is a great way to enable multiple people to stay over, including families. And, even if you do have a spare room that you can also use, this extra space helps you to make it a bigger party.

This can also avoid the awkward situation in which some guests can sleep in cosy beds while others have to make do with a blow-up mattress on the floor and a sleeping bag.

How Is A Garden Annexe For Guests Covered By Planning Law?

If you are building a garden room specifically to provide sleeping quarters, one issue you do need to be aware of is that building regulations will apply here in a way they would not to most garden rooms.

Planning permission is still not an issue in general terms under permitted development rights, provided the building covers less than 15sq/m, while a garden room that is 15-30 sq/m is permitted provided it is made from non-combustible materials.

Garden annexe installation can fall under the Caravan Sites Act, which means it should not need planning permission in the way that other buildings might.

However, any rooms used for sleeping will need to meet certain building regulations, chiefly due to matters such as fire safety, structural safety and energy efficiency.

Because the base material we use is steel, there is no combustible material issue to contend with and it will also be very robust and structurally safe.

Also, because of the secure way we build your annexe, having designed and crafted it with professional expertise, you can be sure that it will meet any building regulations required.

An annexe of this type will be self-contained, so guests can have some extra mod-cons added like a kitchen and a bathroom. That can also mean that if you have people staying over, you don’t have the problem of an overcrowded kitchen or a long bathroom queue.

In short, it will open up all sorts of exciting possibilities for you to be hospitable.