Get ready to dive into the exciting world of garden room design! In this post, I'm thrilled to share some of the key design stages that I...

🏡 What Type of Garden Room Should You Build? 🏗️✨ Thinking about adding a garden room, pub, office, granny pod or gym to your home? There are several build options, each with different costs, durability, and maintenance needs. Here’s a breakdown to help you decide

🚨 Exciting Project Alert! 🚨 We just completed our self built garden games room —the Fox Den Inn! 🦊🍻 A simple but thrilling build a DIY adventure. Despite a small height calculation mistake (oops! 😅), we adjusted on the fly and stuck to our submitted plans. ✅ Planning process? Surprisingly smooth! ✅ Lessons learned? Plenty! ✅ Next challenge? Tackling our home extension drawings without an architect! Follow along as I put my planning skills to the test. Will it work?

🏡 Building The Fox Den: What We Learned & What We’d Do Differently! 🏗️🍻 If everything had gone smoothly with our original contractor, The Fox Den Inn would have been completed much faster! But insufficient planning and research meant we had to redo certain build stages. For anyone planning a garden room, pub, or home office, here’s a quick step-by-step breakdown of how we built ours—and what we’d improve next time.

What started as a vision in April 2021 has finally come to life—our very own garden pub! 🦊🍻 We self-built the Fox Den Inn in just a few months, but the journey was full of lessons, setbacks, and big wins.

I’ve started crunching numbers, and while verbal quotes put my dream build at £150K-£200K, my own estimates tell a different story… Could a 3-story blockwork extension really be possible for £60K? 🤯

This story is pure embarrassment, but I wanted to share it because how this happened to someone as experienced as I am, well, I still don't really forgive myself. Dreams can quickly turn into nightmares if you're not careful.

Launching the Unfiltered female site manager blog. To help less experience people than myself understand building better.