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The backyard shed has come into it’s own. No longer relegated to being a tool shed or a place to store gardening materials or the occasional bicycle or exercise machine. These have now been elevated to the status of contemporary garden buildings and garden offices which rival the construction and materials of a regular house addition. What would you do with a detached building in your yard that was just as well insulated, heated, cooled and lighted as your main house, maybe better?

Well you probably won’t use it for storage. Now you can economically take the shed word and transform it into a beautiful garden studio. Been wanting to get back into painting now that you’re an empty nester? Maybe your basement hobby could grow into a cottage industry if you could work in a well lit clean comfortable environment. How about that private at home office or library you’ve dreamed about. Now instead of tucking it away in a spare room upstairs, it can be at the end of a neatly landscaped stone walkway just a few metres from your back door.

Instead of turning the unfinished basement into a new family room, play room or lounge, you might just have the ideal piece of ground in your yard, maybe over by the pool, to place a complete room in a garden setting that could become a mini vacation oasis. Imagine having a quick getaway without having to actually get away!

Some have even made these distinctly modern structures into in-law suites for aging parents or as a novel way to accommodate sleepover guests. There is no end to what these extra rooms can become when they are of solid construction and professionally integrated into your garden setting.

Modular construction makes this much less of an undertaking than you might think and should be considered as a doable alternative to other additions and renovations to your home.