TimberWindows.com is pleased to announce the launch of The English Glasshouse.

The company, which produces bespoke timber orangeries and conservatories, as well as roof lanterns and pool houses, is already setting new standards for the industry.

With each building constructed individually to suit not only the style of house, but also to take into account the preferences and style of the Owner - the fact that there is nothing mass-produced is obvious.

The honest charm and character that shines through is unmistakable.
Whether you’re looking for something contemporary or traditional and whatever size your home, The English Glasshouse can create a garden room for you that will not only add value to your property, but will also change the way you live at home.

Giles Henman, Conservatory Director of TimberWindows.com, says: “Our mission, with The English Glasshouse, has been to bring 21st century standards of insulation and security, while not compromising on design and ensuring each English Glasshouse requires little maintenance and is built to last.

“We have taken the very best American, Scandinavian and European technology and married it with peerless British design, to create glass buildings that are both beautiful and a joy to live with.”

Conservatories and orangeries by The English Glasshouse are the only ones in the UK to be manufactured exclusively from engineered hardwood (multi-layered timber sections laid out at opposing grains) and oak, ensuring many problems usually associated with wood, such as warping and twisting, have been eliminated.

The English Glasshouse offers a unique guarantee of up to 30 years and prides itself on building strong relationships and offering the very best customer service.

To view the stunning range of bespoke glasshouses and orangeries, please visit the English Glasshouse website.

Tel: (0845) 652 7365.

Apropos’ latest lead figures have shown an increase in the number of enquiries for a conservatory kitchen.

Customers are looking to brighten up their kitchen areas, by moving them into an aluminium and glass conservatory.

They can also have the option to add folding sliding doors, which will enable them to open out the kitchen and let in the fresh air.

According to the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), adding a new kitchen to your property can be more appealing to buyers and can add as much as 4% to its value; adding a conservatory to a property can be very simple and cost effective.

Apropos structures are designed especially for the clients to suit their needs and can be designed to fit any space for any size kitchen. Apropos’ aluminium and glass structures come with a large choice of different colour frames to suit any house from the ultra modern town house to a traditional farm house.

Peter Holland, Regional Sales Manager at Apropos comments “We have seen a significant increase in the number of kitchen conservatories that we are designing for our clients. More people these days are looking to make their homes brighter and more airy, so are looking to us to help them achieve their dream home.”

Apropos glass and aluminium structures start from £12,000.

For further information or to order a brochure visit the Apropos website.

Tel: (0800) 328 0033.

Most of us enjoy the summer months; relaxing in the garden or enjoying a barbeque with friends there is no better time to enjoy your garden during the summer.

We don’t always get the ideal weather for it though and often what starts as a nice balmy afternoon, can soon get interrupted by gusts of wind or the odd rain shower.

The Barbeque Cabin from Green Stamp allows you to cook in the open air with all the comforts of your home around you without having to spend your afternoon worried as to what the sky is doing:

• Made from environmentally conscious FSC and PEFC certified timber from sustainable managed forests.

• This outdoor cabin is an ideal outdoor kitchen or barbeque area.

• It provides a solid base, shelter and there are various storage options available.

• The robust and contemporary cabin provides plenty of room for even the largest barbeques or cooking appliances. Price - £1750.

Other cabins available are:

The ideal Open Outdoor Cabin. Made from top quality North European pine timber, which is FSC and PEFC certified, from sustainable managed forests.

• The cabin is pressure treated and carries a long and reassuring 10 year guarantee against wood rot.

• The walls have attractive design profiling, and the felted roof incorporates a drainage system. Priced at £2450.

The excellent Outdoor Living module, is easy to adapt to your own design.

• Choose from completely open, partly open or one side completely closed, by placing 3 wall elements near each other in between 2 square posts. Price £1850.

To view the different cabin options visit the Green Stamp website.

Tel:   (01637) 854717

Create a garden hideaway for summer with Forest’s latest collection of decorative timber arches and arbours – and watch the sun set whilst sipping champagne with your loved one.

Forest, the leading UK garden timber manufacturer – based in the leafy county of Worcestershire, has created a distinctive range of arches and arbours that will help turn any garden into a romantic retreat; and with a few simple touches you’ll feel like a world away from everyday life – well we can all dream can’t we!

It’s all about the Arch.

• With a traditional pergola, classic curved and rustic timber arches available in a variety of sizes, Forest offers an arch for every taste and garden.

• Simply plant your favourite flowers at the base of the structure, to grow up and over the arch (clematis, honeysuckle or climbing or rambling roses work well) and watch your ‘garden of love’ bloom into life.

• For an immediate effect, why not intertwine a string of outdoor garden lights to create an inviting atmosphere.

Cosy up in your Arbour Haven.

• With a variety of design styles, shapes and sizes, Forest’s collection of timber arbours are another perfect addition to your garden retreat.

• With just a few simple touches, like scatter cushions, candle lanterns and a cosy throw, you can finish off your romantic hideaway – perfect for reading a book, or enjoying that all-important glass of wine.

• A corner structure is the ultimate in cosiness. And the ‘Monaco Arbour Seat’ pictured here, is no exception –comfortably seating up to 4 people for a sociable afternoon. (RRP £499.99, 202 x 199 x 199cm)

Where to buy.
Forest’s products can be purchased in more than 1,000 garden centres and builder’s merchants up and down the country. Home delivery is also available on a wide range of products.

To view the ranges, plus details of stockist locations, visit the Forest Garden website. 

Tel: (0844) 248 9801

Conservatory specialist, Westbury Conservatories, established in January 1990, have been building top quality bespoke conservatories, pool houses, orangeries and garden rooms for twenty years.

The privately owned company has built an impressive reputation for design, quality, durability and ease of maintenance.

The Westbury service employs a full team of experts ensuring complete control of every aspect of every job, from initial design to the final coat of paint.

The Westbury commitment is testament to their impeccable service. Managing Director Jonathan Hey personally inspects every completed conservatory, to ensure they meet the toughest quality standards.

The design team are first and foremost architecturally driven, ensuring you get the right conservatory or garden room to suit both your property and your lifestyle.

They are also environmentally conscious; every aspect of the business has been checked against strict green credentials, from a wood re-burner, which recycles the waste wood to heat the factory, to ensuring all building materials are sustainable.

Featured here is a Traditional Timber Conservatory In Surrey.

• This fabulous rectory needed its own touch of modern living.

• A bespoke solution, creating a large glass room and a permanent opening from the kitchen, meant that the beautiful grounds could be enjoyed to the full.

• Modern living now seems to require one very large room and this is a perfect example of how classical design can be married with contemporary living.

Jonathan Hey, Managing Director of Westbury Conservatories comments, “Our aim is to make building a conservatory, orangery, garden room or pool-house as painless as possible.

Over the last 20 years we’ve developed a process that not only ensures you get the right design to suit your home and lifestyle, but that the job is completed with the minimum of fuss.

Our expert team of reliable tradesmen provide a professional service, complete every job to the exact specifications and always finish on time.”

Visit the Westbury Conservatories website to view their impressive ranges of garden buildings.

Tel: (01371) 876576

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