Author: Emma Faulkner

Garden rooms keep selling despite tight budgets. Here is what a garden room actually costs in the UK in 2026, where the money goes, and who should skip it.

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After two decades of selling open plan as the only modern way to live, British homeowners are quietly admitting it does not work as well as the magazines promised. The broken plan kitchen is the correction – and it is becoming the dominant kitchen brief landing on UK architects’ desks this year.