How to choose a corner summer house by considering uses and sizes, materials and prices, designs and styles and building it.

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With so many corner summerhouses to choose from, you抣l find something to suit every style and taste from the traditional cottage garden to the stylish, contemporary architect designed home. Unsurprisingly there抯 a choice of corner summer houses to suit every pocket too, ranging from just a few hundred pounds to several thousand. What you get depends upon your budget of course as well as the space you have available.

At the entry level, there are plenty of economical corner summerhouses that are really just a new take on the garden shed with the addition of styrene glazed doors and windows. Moving up the range of corner summer houses you抣l find many with extra features like fixed and opening windows, single and double locking doors and overhanging roofs for protection and shade. Other designs have decks and verandas to sit out on as well as rails, balustrades and stairs, plus a variety of trellises and fencing panels. In fact there抯 a corner summer house to suit every home.

In addition, corner summer houses are offered with a broad selection of extra features such as different glazing options, decorative strips, panels and finials, plus all kinds of roofing choices like felt, tiles, shingles and thatch. At the higher end of the corner summer house price range, you抣l find that luxury features predominate, such as PVCu construction and double glazing, as well as extra rooms inside and these offer a very competitively priced alternative to extending your home. Whichever way you look at it, a corner summer house makes an idyllic place to escape from the daily grind, as well as the ideal setting for all kinds of entertainment and casual dining from family gatherings to summer barbecues with friends ?whatever the weather.

Yet a corner summer house can be far more even than a great place to relax. With plenty of room for furniture and a generous roof height a corner summerhouse gives you versatile accommodation to suit all needs. In fact many people use their corner summerhouse as an office or studio as it makes the perfect place to escape from everyday living. Others find that corner summerhouses make an ideal spot for the children to play, and a place to keep all their games and toys. For still others, the corner summer house is an elegant pavilion; the perfect centrepiece for all year round entertaining, bringing a whiff of romantic and luxurious living to any garden setting.

Smaller corner summerhouses are easily assembled and erected by the average homeowner using DIY tools, but larger constructions will need professional trades and equipment ?especially where concrete bases or platforms need to be built. A timber corner summerhouse will often be made using pre-treated timber from FSC-approved environmentally friendly sustainable sources. Sometimes a corner summerhouse will be pre-stained, whilst others are left unfinished for you to stain or paint as desired. Moving up the price range, you will find some corner summer houses with pre-applied factory finishes in a variety of pleasing effects and colours.

Written by Les Renshaw.