Alex, the MD of Booths Garden Studios, was given a Smarta Award which highlighted top innovative companies – companies who were “game changers”.

The panel of judges included Deborah Meaden (shown above), who was impressed by Alex’s garden offices. They are zero maintenance and come with unique guarantees such as “we’ll take your garden studio back if you are unsatisfied with the product”.

Booths Garden Studios were seen as a company at the forefront, of the huge surge in the popularity of garden rooms.

The figures back this up showing that Booths turned over half a million in 2009, £1M in 2010, £1.2M in 2011 and £1.5M in 2012 – All of this growth during a dire economic outlook for the UK economy.

The QC Garden Studio has been the backbone of this growth. The “QC” stands for “Quarter Century” since the exterior of this garden studio needs no maintenance for at least 25 years.

Everyone is very busy these days so not having to spend weekends painting or staining a garden studio to maintain its looks, is very appealing.

Timber inevitably changes its appearance as it gets older whilst the QC doesn’t. Booths actually stopped supplying timber studios in January 2012 for these reasons.