Log Cabins

If you own a log cabin, or are thinking of buying one, be sure to make the most of it. Our Log Cabin Blogs cover all you need to know, including working from home, installing power and more.

  1. A Log Cabin: The Answer to Working From Home

    A Log Cabin: The Answer to Working From Home

    Working from home is many people’s dream, but with the onset of the coronavirus and more companies embracing remote working, it could soon beome a reality for more and more employees.

    Read our comprehensive guide to setting up your own home office

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  2. Portable Gas Heaters to Warm Your Shed

    A black gas cabinet heater in the corner of a room

    A portable gas heater is essential if you’re going to spend time in a shed, summer house or log cabin during the cold winter months. Find out more about what portable gas heaters have to offer, here.

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  3. Should I Buy a Summer House or a Log Cabin?

    a large wooden garden log cabin with veranda

    Are Summer Houses and Log Cabins the Same?

    Nowadays, because of changes in design and the emergence of hybrid models, the difference between summer houses and log cabins can be a bit of a grey area.

    Here we help you understand

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  4. Which Garden Building is Best for Me?

    a green summerhouse with a lady standing in the open door way and a rear shed area with door open

    Choosing a Garden Building 

    As any homeowner and Buy Sheds Direct website regular will know, nowadays there is a huge choice of garden buildings for sale, ranging in size from compact

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  5. Working from Home: Using your Shed or Log Cabin as a Garden Office

    Home working is becoming increasingly popular, especially when many companies and public sector employers are introducing desk sharing. Shedworking is not a new idea, as several writers and artists have taken to their sheds for solace in the past – most

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  6. Can log cabins be used throughout autumn and winter?

    If you've been watching Kevin McCloud's“Man Made Home” on Channel 4, then you probably have a mild case of log cabin obsession by now. It's a great programme which follows Kevin and chums as they build an eco-shed retreat (which is frankly more of a grand

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  7. Do I Need Planning Permission for Sheds or Log Cabins?

    A question we often get asked is “Do I need planning permission”? Usually, this is aimed at our log cabins, sometimes our larger garden sheds and, in one memorable conversation, at our compost bins…

    With the current economic climate and ‘difficult’

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  8. Work from Home with a Wooden Garden Office

    Anyone who works from home knows that their workspace needs to be just right. This can mean either privacy or availability, low levels of distraction, the right amount of space, light and warmth, it really is a particular thing.

    One of the key

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  9. Find your perfect log cabin – our top picks

     Find your perfect log cabin – our top picks

    16x13 Mendip 44mm Shingle Roof Log Cabin

    The Sancerre is one of our largest cabins, perfect for creating an additional living space in your garden. A spacious and elegantly designed cabin, made from high quality Nordic spruce, the thick

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  10. How to apply for planning permission

    How to apply for planning permission

    Garden sheds, log cabins and greenhouses are great additions to nearly every garden – but the rules about what you can build can be complicated.

    Most ‘outbuildings’, as they are referred to, are considered to be ‘permitted development’ and so

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