Garden Studios
Struggling for space for a home studio?

Are you taking on a new hobby, or starting your own business and need a suitable setting? Have you thought about the garden? Sure it might just be an expense of grass and landscaping at the moment, but a wooden garden studio could blend right in with the surroundings.

Quality Garden Studios are the ideal answer when space is tight within the home. Various designs of Garden Studios are available; with plenty of size options and budgets to suit all pockets.

Supplied and constructed by reliable UK manufacturers, Garden Studios are highly versatile, making them ideal for a variety of purposes. Made from the finest of material, the hardwearing Garden Studios look amazing in a host of outdoor settings.

Why not turn one of the Garden Studios into a home office?

There are a growing number of people working from home these days and Garden Studios provide a sensible work from home solution. If you work from home at the moment you know how distracting it can be on certain days, with people knocking on the door and the home phone forever ringing.

This isnt a problem when Garden Studios are erected. People have a dedicated work area that is separate from the main house. The Garden Studios provide that physical detachment from the main residence and this can be a blessing when you have a stack of work to pile through.

Make enquiries about Garden Studios if you are finding it hard to work from home at the moment, due to continual interruptions in the house.

Workout inside Garden Studios

Want to get fit for the summer? Forget joining a gym, you could create your own workout HQ inside one of the Garden Studios. Top grade Garden Studios are perfect to use for training sessions. Fill one of the Garden Studios with your favourite gym equipment and you can lose pounds and increase your stamina anytime that you like.

People have turned Garden Studios into saunas, weight training centres and places to pound treadmills in the past, and theres nothing like having your very own gym outside your back door.

Of course, once you have invested in one of the Garden Studios you can change its use anytime that you like, thats the beauty of these sturdy outdoor structures.

House Designs

House designs are powerful symbols that you can use to create a statement to the world on who you are. Buildings have a long lifespan and will continue communicating your statement to the world long after your departure. House designs are also a mark of self-actualization.

The initial step to realize your dream house plan is to contact an Architect. Explain to your architect how you want your house to look. You can search on the internet for similar house images and floor plans. This will inspire you to be able o explain to your architect exactly how you want to design your house.

You can also explain to your architect on what statement or symbol you may wish your house to communicate through design. At this stage, your budget will be important in that it will dictate the size of the house you will have. Mortgage finance is available from Housing Finance, KCB Savings and Loan, Barclays, Equity Bank, Standard Chartered, Stanbic or any other financial institution in Kenya.

The architect will incorporate the design and symbols into a form and will work out functionality from here.

Functionality involves how spaces relate to each other e.g. the kitchen should be near the dining room, the bedrooms should be located privately away from the living room, the construction of the structure should be structurally sound and in conformity to the Building Code and all laws governing construction of houses.

Through use of 3 dimensional graphic design software such as ArchiCAD, your architect should be able to present to you the house in 3 D graphic view for you to make your recommendations and changes. This process will continue till you are satisfied with the house design.

Your architect will print the house plan in A1 size format and make 4 copies of blueprint.

He will submit the drawings to the relevant local Authority in Kenya, in Nairobi, the City Council.
The Council will go through the drawings to confirm if it conforms to the Kenya Building Code and thus habitable.

Once approvals are granted, usually after a few weeks, you can now move on to the next stage: Construction.
In this stage, you can have your Quantity Surveyor come up with Bills of Quantities, i.e. a breakdown of all the materials and quantities to be used in the house and an estimated cost of construction per item. With this blank document[without the price component], you can invite several building contractors to quote for the construction of the house.with the help of your architect and quantity surveyor, you can select the best in terms of past experience on similar construction and pricing.

After the selection, you then get into contract with the contractor and your architect supervises the contractors work to ensure that he conforms to the design and the agreed quality and workmanship.
Construction contracts in Kenya are available at the Architectural Association Of Kenya offices, Professional center, Nairobi, Kenya.

Once the contractor is through with construction as per the drawings, you can then move in to your dream house and live comfortably ever after.