Children can enjoy a garden playhouse at any time of the year. It’s a safe place where their creativity and imagination can flourish.

The Playhouse Company has been specializing in designing and building children’s playhouses for 20 years.

They create playhouses, castles, tree houses and play equipment that are individually designed, built and installed to the highest standards by their skilled craftsmen.

Built and installed to a very high quality and always supplied fully treated in a choice of colours.

Why not give that special child in your life the chance to escape, play and flourish with a beautiful playhouse?

There is no safer place than your own garden and a playhouse can become your child’s home for all year-round playtime fun.

With one in four 8 to 10 year olds never having played outside without an adult, and one in three parents not even allowing older children to play outside the house or garden, it’s never been more important, to provide a safe and inspirational area for your children within your own garden.

Featured here is: The Playhouse with side balcony - 090355.
It has false dormer windows and shutters to give the playhouse a very spacious appearance.
Priced at: £3,768.

Visit the Playhouse Company’s website to view the huge choice of attractive playhouses.

Tel. 01568 709103

Following months of extensive research, Crown Pavilions has developed the ultimate long-life timber preservation treatment for their 2009 flagship range: pure, unadulterated Cedar.

Up to now, garden pavilions have mainly been made from pine and treated with chemical preservatives, which need to be re-applied yearly.

Rain, sun, snow, ice, storms… customers want their investment to last for many years without the timber rotting, splitting, warping or being eaten away by insects.

“Pavilion manufacturers have been using cedar for their roof tiles for years,” explains Damion Merry, Sales Director of Crown Pavilions. “It’s well known for its naturally occurring preservatives, which make it highly resistant to moisture, decay and insect damage - so it’s much less likely to crack, warp or rot over time.”

And because cedar doesn’t need chemicals, it’s more environmentally friendly. So we decided to use it for the main structure as well and this is exactly what we’ve done with our new 2009 range.”

“So for the very first time we have produced a British-manufactured cedar pavilion to the same exacting spec as our pine pavilions.

So customers get the best of both worlds: chunky, robust components such as, thick 6 inch by 6 inch posts and 4 inch by 3 inch hand rails - but in a more durable, aesthetically pleasing and more environmentally friendly timber than pine.”

But what about the high price tag associated with cedar?
“Because we’re well aware of the pressure on customers’ purse strings, we’ve made the decision to minimise our margins, without compromising on quality or moving our manufacturing abroad.

This means that some of our cedar pavilions actually cost less than many competitor’s pine pavilions– and ours are hand-crafted in the UK.”
Another great thing about cedar is that because it doesn’t need treating it smells divine. “Something you definitely don’t get with chemicals!”

Featured here is an example of the Crown Seymour within a garden landscaped by the company.

• The new cedar Seymour has been specifically designed to fit snugly into corner spots or compact rectangular plots.

• Yet it manages to accommodate 9-12 people very comfortably, without dominating your outdoor space or looking out of proportion.

• Priced at £9140 for 8-10 people.

• Prices include Crown Table and benches.

Web: www.crownpavilions.com

Tel: (0149) 1612820 / 07828986035

If staying in is the new going out, then where better to while away sunny summer days, than in your very own bespoke gazebo from Orlestone Oak.

Orlestone Oak design, build, and install bespoke gazebos of the highest specification made from solid oak using traditional oak frame techniques.

Post and brace joints are hand carved mortise and tenon with hand-made 5-sided tapered pegs; this ensures that the joint is under tension and keeps the joints tight as the timber shrinks.

The word gazebo originates from the English verb “to gaze” combined with the Latin ending “bo”, giving the meaning “I will look”.
It’s easy to understand how this naming occurred, as a gazebo is the perfect place to relax and observe beautiful surroundings.

Working with Orlestone Oak’s design team, customers can specify their own choice of roof tiles, timber shingles or even thatch; they can also specify their chosen floor, whether it be brick, tiles or timber decking, making each gazebo truly unique.

Orlestone Oak is an established manufacturer of exceptional hand-built oak-framed buildings with a 20year reputation for excellence. All timber is sourced from sustainable forests in the UK and Europe.

Featured here is a Solid oak garden gazebo, built to provide a covered poolside living/dining area:

• Oak newels on the curved wooden balustrade are turned to a traditional design.
  Oak posts and curved braces with mortise and tenon peg joints.
  Finished with a Kent peg tiled roof with fully leaded finial and brick tiled floor, in concentric circle design. 3metre diameter.
• Prices: From £6,000

To view the extensive range of unique designs visit:

Web: http://www.orlestoneoak.co.uk
Tel: (01233) 732 179

Children love a garden playhouse. It’s their own space where their creativity and imagination can be released and enjoyed.

The Playhouse Company have specialised in designing and building children’s play houses for 20 years and have extensive experience in building a large range, from a kid’s tree house, or a large garden play house, to a small Wendy house.

All of their playhouses, tree houses and play equipment are built to a very high standard; they are always supplied fully treated in the client’s choice of colours and are installed by The Playhouse Company.

The playhouses are built by their own craftsmen in their Herefordshire workshop, then taken apart and installed in the garden by the same craftsmen that built it.

These playhouses can be adapted as the children grow up, from a play area to a room where they can ‘escape’ to and chill out, or even do their homework.

In our picture is The Playhouse Company’s No. 080824:

A raised playhouse with stable door and slide. Size 6ft x 6ft + decking. Finished in Sadolin Classic – Woodruff and smoky blue.
Price: £5,750

For further information visit:

Web: http://www.theplayhousecompany.co.uk
Tel: (01568) 709103

With five family members working within the company, Griffin Glasshouses can truly claim to be a family business; they have been designing made to measure glasshouses and greenhouses of distinction, since the early 1960s, so you can be reassured by their wealth of experience and expertise.

To see these wonderful glasshouses first hand, visit their stand at this year’s Hampton Court Palace Flower Show – 8th to 13th July.

You will find Griffin Glasshouses at stand C46, where they will be launching their new glazing bar and new shape cap on their Victorian style lean-to glasshouses.

The new glazing bar is a hollow section with a profile similar to the old wooden bars; the channel has been left on the inside, so that shading or insulation can be attached directly to the bar; also the new style capping complements the bar and adds to the aesthetics of Victorian style structures.

Featured here is a Lean to Offset Ridge glasshouse with porch, 35° pitch roof , 2.6m x 8.3m.

Offset ridge glasshouses are usually against a high wall, but can also be freestanding; they are attached to the wall using a valley gutter, which is wide enough to walk in, for ease of maintenance.

Web: http://www.griffinglasshouses.com

Tel: 01962 77251272512

Breeze House, the celebrated provider of original and unique structures for perfect year round relaxation and outdoor living, has just launched a new full colour brochure.

The new brochure is full of inspirational photography, plus details of all sizes for the wide variety of garden buildings on offer, to whet your appetite to indulge in alfresco living this year.

Pictured here is The Colonial, a spacious, quality and decorative outdoor dining room for your garden, which comfortably accommodates a 165cm diameter table and 6/8 armchairs, making it the ideal outdoor dining room.

Later in the evening it provides a great wooden dance floor for all ages to party, party, party; The Colonial was the company’s original building and it has proved to be the most popular over the years.

The Complete Colonial Breeze House includes, Floor, Handrails and Timber Roof, underslating and Thatchbor Thatch Tiles. Priced at £11,522.

The Breeze House range of high quality timber garden buildings and all of the gazebos are designed and hand-made in the UK to exacting standards and are available with a thatch or Cedar shingle roof.

Web: http://www.breezehouse.co.uk

Tel: (01538) 398 488

From planters to statuary and fountains to finials there is something in Haddonstone’s range for every garden.

But for the grandest ornaments of all take inspiration from classical architecture with a temple or pavilion.

Temples should not be regarded as mere buildings but as classical ornaments; they look magnificent when viewed from afar at the end of a vista or cresting a rise; essentially frivolous and mood evoking, often intended for no other purpose than to enliven the senses.

Featured here is a Small Classical Temple with Dome.

The octagonal sundial plinth, in the style of Robert Adam is decorated with masks and margents of husks, providing an elegant support for the Armillary Sphere sundial.

Cast stone orangeries make ideal pool houses or summer rooms, or why not let your imagination wander with a ruinous gothic grotto?

Visit the website to view a huge collection of inspiring architectural cast stone:

Web: http://www.haddonstone.co.uk
Tel: (01604) 770711

Fawsley are specialists in building beautifully handcrafted garden rooms, conservatories and orangeries that would grace the grandest of homes.

Garden rooms are increasingly popular as they provide more shelter than a conservatory and are less formal than an orangery; a perfect choice if you wish to create a pleasant cosy area, from which to enjoy the fruits of your toil with the trowel and the watering can.
 
The garden room presented here is part-glazed with a tiled roof and vaulted ceiling, making it an ideal extension for a brick-built house.

The new structure blends perfectly with the original cottage and the moulded pilasters and aluminium gutters provide the finishing touches.

Fawsley use only the very finest raw materials.  Their choice of wood is Western Red Cedar, which is warp resistant and contains a natural resin that protects it from rot and decay.
 
The wood is bought only from suppliers who operate sustainable forestation policies.

Approximate project cost: £20,000
Approximate size: 3.2m by 4.7m.

Web: http://www.fawsley.com
Tel: (024) 7666 9166

HSP have a wealth of experience in the design, manufacture and installation of excellent quality garden structures, from summerhouses and gazebos, to seating arbours and potting sheds.

These two attractive additions to the HSP Garden Classic Collection draw inspiration from the Victorian and Edwardian periods and provide a stunning focal point for any garden.

The unique Tunstall Summerhouse pictured here in Riverstone finish was designed to fit snugly into a corner of the garden; the five glazed panels providing excellent lighting, ventilation and panoramic views.

The elegant Victorian Potting Shed in clotted cream provides a practical storage solution, which is designed to complement rather than detract from its garden surroundings.
 
The buildings are fitted with robust plywood floors, lead roofs and double doors for easy access.

The Tunstall Summerhouse, 3500mm x 3500mm retails at £10,470.

The Potting Shed is offered in two sizes, 2400mm x 1800mm and 3400mm x 1800mm retailing at £3,995 and £4,695.

Web: http://www.hspgardenbuildings.co.uk
Tel:  (01638) 583 814