GREEN & BLUE INFRASTRUCTURE
LITTLE GREEN ROOMS TAKE GARDEN ROOMS TO THE NEXT LEVEL
Garden rooms and garden buildings have come a long way from the humble garden shed. They are big business and range from the still humble shed to full-on garden rooms, garden offices and dedicated garden spaces used for every conceivable occupation and hobby.
Garden rooms offered with a green roof are still relatively rare as live-loading dictates that roofs must be built to take the weight of a green roof from the outset and be capable of handling the weight of waterproofing, filter fleece, root barrier, substrate and planting. But that doesn’ t mean they don’ t exist.
In Bristol, Little Green Rooms are, by their own admission a young business based around a creative, bright and passionate team. They can manage the creative, the finance as well as the operational hands-on design, build and install of your very own hand-built garden room. Since 2021 the team has grown to nearly thirty people who install several hundred garden rooms across the South of England and Wales every year.
Little Green Rooms( LGR) was founded by Jack Shaw- a designer and furniture maker devoted to sustainability. So LGR has benefitted from his long-standing approach to innovation, creativity and attention to detail.
But these garden rooms are no sheds. They look more architectural than functional and inside feel just like any room in your house. All Little Green Rooms’ buildings are designed to have a sedum green roof from the outset. Everything is handmade, all the all timber is sourced from wellmanaged forests, insulation comes from recycled plastic bottles and every order generates a donation to 9Trees who plant and manage native woodland across the UK. These are truly green garden rooms. Not only that but this is a true people business with green partners and profit-share across the business.
This approach is nothing if not all encompassing. Little Green Rooms have created a stylish, functional and sustainable solution to deliver the extra space so many of us crave. A space to work in, relax, or to develop ideas & hobbies. These garden rooms have been designed from the ground up with home working in mind. The ethos is“ positive spaces have positive impacts.” Every garden room is considered aesthetically,
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