Garden Room / Lady Cave

Chippo1 · Post by **Chippo1** » Sat Sep 11, 2021 8:53 am

Been building this over the last six weeks , primarily to get the wife’s sewing mess out of the house !

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dewaltdisney · Post by **dewaltdisney** » Sat Sep 11, 2021 9:04 am

That looks great Chippo, well done. What are your ballpark costs do you reckon?

DWD

Chippo1 · Post by **Chippo1** » Sat Sep 11, 2021 9:22 am

DWD , the original budget agreed with the client ( her indoors ) was £6000 , I suspect at the moment we are heading towards £7000, but that now does include flooring and lots of those IKEA cube storage things , some of which will form the base of a movable cutting table.

The timber for the frame I did a deal on 30 lengths 4.8 C24 that had been stored outside so a bit grey for £440 so in current client that was a result , also did well on the plywood. For sheeting walls and roof.

Cut down an existing concrete base to size , so only cost there was hire of 12inch disc cutter , tin of DPM , I had a sheet of PVC DPM as well so belt n braces.

50mm PIR under floating chipboard floor , walls and ceiling 100mm PIR

After lots of messing getting prices for alll sorts from bi folds and aluminium , windows came from Essex Trade Windows £1008 , delivered on time and good product , white inside , graphite outside.

Hardie plank cladding from U Plastics in Newmarket as was all the trim plastics for the roof, roof was A Rubber roof kit , which was an absolute doodle to fit.

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dewaltdisney · Post by **dewaltdisney** » Sat Sep 11, 2021 9:33 am

That is a result, that would have cost £20k if a builder did it I suspect. It looks really good, heating system next

DWD

kellys_eye · Post by **kellys_eye** » Sat Sep 11, 2021 9:50 am

Nice work and brilliant result

. Must keep this article away from Mrs k_e

Gadget · Post by **Gadget** » Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:09 am

Too good to be a sewing room, that's deffo a man-cave...

Chippo1 · Post by **Chippo1** » Sat Sep 11, 2021 5:15 pm

Thanks guys for your kind comments , means a lot from ones fellow doers and craftsman

ayjay · Post by **ayjay** » Sat Sep 11, 2021 5:19 pm

Gadget wrote: ↑Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:09 am Too good to be a sewing room, that's deffo a man-cave...

...........but when SWMBO is in her lady cave, you've got the whole house for a man cave.

Chippo1 · Post by **Chippo1** » Sat Sep 11, 2021 5:55 pm

I have a double garage with full loft !

Chippo1 · Post by **Chippo1** » Sat Oct 02, 2021 7:49 pm

And the sewing begins !

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IKEA hack , used world wide by sewers , two sets of cubes and some ply with an IKEA desk top and some casters

If any one says its upside down I will explode just spent twenty mins rotating it on i pad no joy , furling nightmare!

cyberminusie · Post by **cyberminusie** » Mon Nov 15, 2021 3:12 pm

Nice project congratulations.
Building it in the garden of an Italian house would be an odyssey of legislative bureaucracy and quarrels with neighbors.

Post by **ultimatehandyman** » Fri May 27, 2022 9:58 am

That is absolutely awesome

I keep thinking about making something similar at the bottom of the garden here!

I’ve not checked in the show case gallery for ages, as I’m mad busy. Yesterday we moved to a new server and there have been a few issues with Avatars and images etc. I’ve turned a couple of your pictures the correct way up, not sure why some pictures want to be upside down. When I downloaded one of your images to rotate it, the image was upside down as a thumb and also when opened using the default photo viewing program on my PC, but when I opened it to edit the picture, it was the correct way up

Confusing or what

£7K for that is a bargain, I’m sure that will add plenty of value to your property and also increase the chances of selling it quickly in future

Argyll · Post by **Argyll** » Fri May 27, 2022 10:47 am

Looks great Chippo. I'd love to get something like that but every time I save enough money I end up blowing it for holiday