A Nordu Garden building in natural timber cladding, standing on its own in a planted garden with its full height sliding doors open onto the paving and a fitted out room visible inside.

Nordu Garden

At home in your garden.

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The Nordu difference

This is not your typical garden room. A properly insulated, properly finished building you use every day of the year. A Nordu Garden room is engineered to exactly the same standard as Nordu Extensions. The only real difference is that it stands on its own.

A charred timber garden room at dusk, its full height glazing lit warm from inside, planting and wet paving around it and the house in darkness behind.

Three sizes. Endless possibilities.

Every size is a multiple of the 1.2m grid the whole system is built on. The uses are examples only, to give a sense of scale. Nothing is fixed by the size you choose.

Choose a size, or choose what you would use it for.

Nordu 1

A space to focus.

Perfect for a garden office or a studio for one that can be used all year.

Area
10m²
Footprint
4.8m × 2.4m
Height
2.4m

Suits

Office Studio
Price Nordu 1
Timber: a 10 square metre garden office, roughly the height of the fence behind it, with a desk and chair visible through the sliding glazed front.
Timber
Composite: the same 10 square metre garden office, clad in dark slate grey boards.
Composite
Floor plan loading
Indicative layout. Not a construction drawing.

Nordu 2

A space to express yourself.

Big enough for a home gym, a creative space, or to entertain with a garden bar.

Area
20m²
Footprint
6.0m × 3.6m
Height
2.4m

Suits

Gym Hobby room
Price Nordu 2
Composite: a 20 square metre garden room.
Composite
Smooth render: a 20 square metre garden room.
Smooth render
Floor plan loading
Indicative layout. Not a construction drawing.

Nordu 3

Enjoy your garden in a whole new way.

Our most expansive space will transform how you live.

Area
30m²
Footprint
8.4m × 3.6m
Height
2.4m

Suits

Annexe Guest room Garden lounge
Price Nordu 3

Need something larger? The Nordu grid scales beyond our standard sizes. Get in touch to discuss a bigger build.

Timber, charred: a 30 square metre garden room.
Timber, charred
Smooth render: a 30 square metre garden room.
Smooth render
Floor plan loading
Indicative layout. Not a construction drawing.

Materials

Three external finishes.

The same three finishes as Nordu Extensions. In a garden setting the choice is usually about how much you want the building to stand out from the planting.

Vertical timber cladding in close detail, narrow boards with fine shadow gaps between them.

Timber

Vertical board on board cladding with a deep shadow gap. Left untreated it weathers naturally. Oiled, it holds its warmth for longer.

Dark grey composite cladding board in close detail, flat and matte with a crisp joint line.

Composite

A horizontal wood polymer board. It holds its appearance, handles Scottish weather and never needs treating.

Smooth off white render in close detail, meeting at a sharp external corner.

Smooth render

A flat silicone render with sharp reveals around every opening. The quietest of the three, and the most recessive against planting.

Built to be used

Warm in winter, cool in summer.

Most garden buildings are summer buildings. They are too cold to sit in from October and too hot by the middle of the afternoon in June, so they end up storing bicycles.

A Nordu Garden space has the same insulated, sealed shell as a Nordu extension. Floor, walls and roof are engineered as one continuous envelope, so the heat you put in stays in and the summer heat stays out.

  • Continuous insulation through floor, walls and roof
  • Sealed and tested against draughts, not just packed with insulation
  • Heating and power run in as standard, ready to use on handover
How the system works
Inside a Nordu garden room, a sofa and armchair facing full height glazing onto a lawn.

The paperwork, explained.

This is the part most people worry about. It is more straightforward than it sounds.

Permitted development

A Nordu Garden building is freestanding, so the regulatory route depends on floor area, height, your boundary, and whether your property is listed or in a conservation area. Smaller builds can sit below the threshold for planning permission and a building warrant altogether.

Most Nordu Garden buildings qualify. We confirm yours at survey, before you commit to anything.

Inside the Nordu showroom near Glasgow, with ground screw foundations displayed along a dark wall beside a lit graphic panel.

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Discover what makes Nordu different, in person.

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