This garden office is a 12′ x 12′ (3640mm x 3640mm) and Stephen, it’s owner, decided not to fill in the gaps below his studio but instead to plant some flowers there. This also “softens” the look of your garden studio. Alex Booth prefers this “open” option because it maintains an airflow below your studio, which means rising damp will never be an issue. It also saves you the expense of adding a skirting.

As long is your site is clear of bushes, trees or any other obstacles, then your garden studio can be installed. It can also be over different surfaces – grass, soil, gravel, concrete – the unique “FabSlab” base system can cope with this.

Customers often ask me about foxes living under their garden studio and in all the years we have been going (since the year 2000 we haven’t had a single customer have foxes living under their garden studio, so it’s a very rare occurence. The base system used for the QC Garden Studio is extremely flexible. Not only does it eliminate the cost and hassle of laying a concrete base (it’s fine to lay on an existing concrete base if it’s already there), but it can accomodate very severe slopes. One end of your garden studio can be up to a metre higher than the other end.

The photo below shows a 18′ x 12′ (5460mm x 3640mm) LoLine QC garden studio on a severe slope. Andy, who owns the garden studio, uses it as an office and says he feels like he’s “working in the woods” – which he was really pleased about.

The gap below the garden studio was eventually filled in with “skirting’ to hide the base struts and finish off the look.