Wouldn't it be nice to be out of the house and into a summer house in the summertime evenings and weekends?

But if it's summertime wouldn't it be nice to sit outside, why do you need a Summerhouse? If it's very hot then it's great to sit outside unless that is the sun is excessively hot then the sheltered porch of a summerhouse is perhaps very appealing. Think beyond those hot and sunny summer days and evenings and envisage an early spring day, sunshiny but a still a chill breeze. The kind of day when you sit in your house looking through the window into your garden, the flowers are fully in bloom filling up the garden with their fragrance. The trouble is you can't smell the flowers or hear the spring song of the garden birds.

Envision your Summerhouse in your garden, windows open so that a breeze is entering, the aroma of the flowers near to the summer house blowing in through the window as well as the beautiful birdcalls. If you install heating you will be able to be closer to nature for more months of the year.

A summerhouse can be your personal hideaway perhaps with a convenient hot tub and a place to entertain, especially if you've a deficiency of space in your house, with the barbecue alongside. Make your garden room versatile that's the message; get as much value from your garden room as possible.

Summerhouses can be stylish and are available in an assortment of configurations to accommodate whatever garden size. You can include one in the corner of your garden or make one the focus of your garden.

Price is a consideration there's an array of prices to fit budgets but do remember with outside constructions more often than not it's a case of you get what you pay for. Maybe you're planning to employ the summer house as an outdoors space in the summer months as a handy sitting and storage space. If you're planning to use it year-around and you need a long lasting building then it will be essential to apportion a bigger budget. You might resolve to move from your current house and there's a chance that your summerhouse will bring extra value to your property.

A selection of materials is available these days and its personal preference as to what appears satisfactory in your garden.

Regardless of the building material employed what is of import is substantial foundations. Stint on this often requirement and you'll regret it for a long time to come.

Wood employed in the building of summerhouses deviates considerably. Even though nearly all will be advertised as pine the quality can differ from maker to maker. The quality of the timber is for the most part dependent on the grade of wood and its source. Wood supplied from fast growing trees isn't very dense and is apt to distorting, cracking and rotting. Slow grown wood is denser and more resistive to rotting. As a rule the more expensive the summerhouse the finer the quality of wood employed in the building.

The thickness of most facing utilised is 12mm. Not that when talking about the thickness of wood this is the nominal thickness which means that the wood used before planeing is 12mm, the finished size is commonly a few millimetres less.

Used as a standard summerhouse 12mm cladding is appropriate but if your purpose is as an office or studio it's suggested the summerhouse be insulated.

Due to expansion problems induced by external and internal temperature fluctuations 19mm and 22mm is more beneficial than 12mm.

Once you've made up your mind to go ahead and enhance your house with a summerhouse take a look at the styles available. You are looking at a long term investment so think carefully about how and when you'll use your summerhouse, is it for summertime use exclusively, year-around use, unwinding, entertaining or an office.

Sighting is of import and you should give thought as to whether you require an electric supply, phone line and perhaps even water supply.