5 Reasons You’ll Never Want to Leave Our Beautiful Forest Garden Summerhouses

Forest Garden produces a wide variety of top-notch wooden garden buildings and furniture, and one of the company’s highlights is their great value summerhouses. The stunning 4Life and Beckwood ranges come in sizes from 6’ x 4’ up to 12’ x 8’ and once you introduce one into you garden, we’re pretty sure you’ll never want to leave. Here are five reasons why!

1. The View

If you had to pick one defining feature of a Forest summerhouse, then it has to be the lovely windows and double doors. Pretty much wall-to-ceiling (give or take a bit of cladding), they flood the interior with natural light and provide an amazing, uninterrupted view of your garden beyond.

And what a view. Pick the right location for your summerhouse and you’ll be able to take in the beauty of your flowerbeds and borders from every angle (and in every weather). Even with the doors closed, you can effortlessly bring that outside in and relax with a book, cup of tea or newspaper in the heart of your garden.  

2. The Quality

The 4Life and Beckwood summerhouse ranges pride themselves on the quality of their construction and the quality of their materials. With each of these garden structures, you’re not just getting a building with a beautiful view but also one that’s been built to last.

The summerhouses are built from pressure-treated timber, which is where the preservative has been forced deep into the wood grain to protect against rot. That wood will never need retreating, and the process means that Forest is able to offer an impressive 25-year anti-rot guarantee. But not only that, the wood is also FSC®-certified and so you can trust that’s it’s come from sustainable and well-managed forests.

The 4Life range boasts 7mm overlap cladding on a 28mm frame, along with a 12mm solid wooden floor and PET windows. The slightly higher-spec Beckwood has 12mm shiplap cladding on a 28mm frame, a premium 12mm tongue and groove floor, and acrylic windows. Whichever model you choose to grace your garden, you’re getting a solid, durable, high-quality build that’s far stronger and contains 30% more timber than most other wooden summerhouses on the market.   

3. The Space

Adding an extension to your home can be expensive. With a summerhouse, you get all the benefits of an extra room at a fraction of the price. You also have the luxury of choosing exactly where to position your new room within your garden, which is ideal if you don’t have the space to accommodate a room attached to your house (like a conservatory).

What you do with this new room is completely up to you. A summerhouse is a blank slate, so transform it into a private reading nook with a comfy chair and bookcase, an entertaining space for friends with sofas and tables, or an arts and crafts room with worktables and storage units – the only limits are your imagination!

Another benefit of the Forest summerhouses is that we offer installation as an optional upgrade, so you can just sit back, relax and watch as the professionals build your new space for you.

4. The All-Year-Round Appeal

Some garden structures and furniture, like pergolas and outdoor seating sets, are only really useable in the warmer and finer months of spring and summer (and autumn at a pinch, if we’re lucky enough with the weather!). With a Forest summerhouse, you’re getting a building that can see you through both the summer and winter if you kit it out accordingly.

The thick wooden walls, floor and roof already provide a good level of insulation, helping to keep the inside temperature at a comfortable level all year round, but you can bolster this further by investing in a fan or heater. Equally, install some solar-powered lighting and you can get the most out of your summerhouse well into the evening without the need for any messy rewiring. Some lighting options also come with battery hubs that will charge small mobile devices as an extra bonus.

Once you’ve got you room set up just the way you want it, it’ll be a space you can enjoy all year round.

5. The Versatility

We talked earlier about the quality of the build and materials, but there’s another area where Forest summerhouses excel and that’s design. Both the 4Life and Beckwood models have a versatile modular design, where the placement of the doors and windows can be adapted to your specific requirements. So, if you need the door to be on the left-hand side to accommodate interior furniture or on the right to work with the structure of your garden then that’s easy to arrange. The modular design also makes the summerhouse much more straightforward to assemble if you choose to go for the self-assembly option.

Another way to make the most of that versatility and add a personal touch is with a lick of paint. Simply choose a colour that suits – perhaps a soothing garden green or striking contrast blue – grab a paintbrush and get ready to transform your summerhouse into a space you’ll never want to leave.

Want to find out more about the Forest 4Life and Beckwood summerhouses? Find the full range online at B&M Garden Buildings along with full info about the specs and key features. Every model comes with that market-leading 25-year anti-rot guarantee we mentioned earlier and a professional installation service is available too.

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