Bikes, box sets and a brew

HORNCHURCH – LONDON

ROOM

Bespoke with store

SIZE

Room: 28m², L-shaped

EXTERNAL FINISH

Cedar

DOORS

Bi-fold doors and concealed double store doors

This bespoke garden room in Hornchurch uses an L-shaped layout to give the owners a second living room and a separate place to keep their bikes. The lounge opens onto the garden through bi-fold doors, while the bike store has its own entrance tucked into the cedar cladding.

Concealed bike store

Features

Concealed bike store with double doors
Slatted media wall and herringbone flooring
Kitchenette with skylight
Separate washroom with WC and shower
Integrated blinds and air conditioning

The L-shape gives each part of the building its own access. Open the double doors and you can wheel the bikes straight in from the garden.

Close them and they blend into the vertical cedar cladding. Around the corner, the bi-fold doors open directly into the lounge.

The L-shaped design makes room for a second living room, a skylit kitchenette and a bike store tucked behind the cedar cladding.

Inside, a slim lozenge window brings daylight in above the sofa, and timber slats give the media wall a focal point. The owners chose herringbone flooring, which runs through the lounge and kitchenette and ties the two areas together.

A skylight brings daylight down over the kitchenette, where there’s space to make a drink or put out snacks without heading back to the house.

A separate washroom has a WC and shower. Integrated blinds give the owners privacy when they want it, and air conditioning keeps the lounge comfortable on warmer days.

The Outsider’s Verdict

The L-shape is what makes this room work. You can wheel the bikes straight in from the garden, and when the store doors are closed, the cedar lines carry across them. It’s a small detail that makes a big difference to how the building looks from the garden.

When we design a room with you, we start by talking through how you’d like to use it day to day. From there, we can help you work out the shape of the building, where the doors should go and how to fit in everything you need. Here, that meant giving the bikes their own entrance and finding room for a proper lounge, a kitchenette and a shower within the same footprint.

Rob, Managing Director & CEO
Outsiders Garden Rooms