Bespoke Garden Man Caves

Every garden man cave we build starts with what you want to use it for – whether that’s a sports bar for match days, a soundproofed music room or a games room for the whole family.

1. Initial chat – tell us how you want to use the space and roughly what you’d like to spend.
2. Site visit – we look at your garden, the space available and things like sunlight, so screens aren’t hit by glare and the room sits in the best spot.
3. Spec the details – we plan heating, insulation, soundproofing, doors, and plumbing if you want a bar or sink.
4. 3D drawings – you see the interior and exterior before anything is built, and we tweak the design until it’s right.

Once you’re happy, we agree a start date and get building.

Not sure yet what you’ll use it for? Here are some of the garden man cave ideas we see most often.

Games room

Poker, video games, board games and whatever else you may like to play, you can enjoy them all free from disturbances in your garden man cave. Fit it out with some comfy sofas, a good sound system and maybe a bar and you’ve got the ideal spot for any kind of gaming activity.

Home cinema

A wall-sized screen, proper surround sound and a row of recliners turn your garden room into a private cinema. Add dimmable lighting and soundproofing so you can turn the volume up without disturbing the house or the neighbours.

Sports bar

Watch every match without taking over the living room. Add a bar, a big screen, a dartboard or pool table, and you’ve brought the pub to the bottom of your garden – with plumbing for a sink behind the bar if you want one.

Hobby room

Art, music, gaming setups or collections – a garden room gives you space for it without getting in anyone’s way. With soundproofing, you can finally start that band.

Workshop

Woodwork, bike repairs or DIY projects – a garden workshop gives you room to spread out and make a mess away from the house. With power, lighting and storage planned in from the start, it’s a serious upgrade on the old garden shed.

You could also consider a garden golf room as the addition to your man cave. Or maybe a garden gym room could complement it well?

Every garden man cave we build is unique. We use the same timber-frame methods used to build houses, with high-quality materials, and every room comes fully insulated – so it stays warm during a winter gaming session and comfortable on a summer match day.

You choose the size, shape, windows, doors, flooring, heating, lighting and power, and we make sure it all works together as one space.

We get asked this a lot about the garden rooms we build. An extension seems to be the default choice for many, but a garden room gives you so much more! When you add your garden man cave rather than an extension, you can have a little more freedom, a little more independence. With total separation from the house, you are away from disturbances and can enjoy total privacy. Depending on the reason for building a man cave, your family members may appreciate that too!

Not only do you gain that freedom, but you save money too. For the most part, regardless of what your man cave is going to be for, it’ll come in significantly cheaper than an extension whilst still adding similar, or even more value to the home.

Perhaps a further additional benefit of a garden man cave compared to an extension is that it can be dual purpose. Got guests staying but no spare bedrooms? Use the man cave!

Any form of home improvement is often met with worries about the cost and that is understandable. At Timber Rooms, we believe in full transparency and will always keep you fully informed of costs, timescales and updates. That way, we believe you can remain confident that you are getting the best possible service for your money.

Once you have signed off on our design, we provide you with a quote unique to your garden man cave. With your agreement to proceed, we can arrange a date for the work to begin. We simply ask for a 25% deposit and then we get to work. To keep costs affordable and not cause significant dents to your outgoings, we set up a payment plan that covers the duration of your man cave being built. This then leaves just 5% of the bill remaining to be paid upon completion.

We don’t limit our value for money service just to the building of a man cave for your garden, we also take time to show you each aspect of your new garden addition. Our team will show you where everything is and how everything works so you can get instant enjoyment out of it and start planning its future uses.

It doesn’t end there though, our man caves for your garden come with a ten-year structural guarantee as well as the opportunity to call us out for up to three months after completion for us to rectify any small errors you may have detected.

You’ll be pleased to know that a garden man cave is one of the additions to your property that won’t require planning permission across sussex and Surrey. Falling under permitted rights, you can add a bespoke garden shed man cave to your garden without fear of being pulled up by the local authorities for breaching any rules.

That being said, some people let their vision run away with them and aim to have something that would require specific authorization. Our team will always be able to advise during the design process of any potential encroachments of the regulations you may make. In the meantime, though, factor the following into your garden man cave ideas and you’ll not fall foul of any regulations:

• Your garden man cave must not have more than two floors.
• The man cave in your garden must not take up more than 50% of the garden surface.
• The garden room should not pass the front of your house.
• You should not allow your garden man cave to become a permanent residence for anyone.
• The height of your man cave must not exceed 4m on an apex or reverse apex roof.
• The overall height must not exceed 3m on any other roof type.
• The eaves must not be higher than 2.5m