If you are looking for a garden house, you should not only pay attention to size and appearance. Equally important are sustainability and the use of ecological building materials such as wood.
Anyone who is allowed to call a garden their own will sooner or later flirt with the option of cutting off some of the green in order to be able to place a garden shed. But what should the garden house be used for? It is usually intended to provide additional storage space to provide a home for lawn mowers and the like and, ideally, even to have space for garden furniture.
Anyone who only intends to create storage space relies on a mostly quite simple garden house. The smallest variant is the shed, which has no windows and is only used to store garden equipment. If you have more space in the garden or would like to use the garden house as a summer quarters, you could put a log cabin garden house in the garden. This article reveals what is behind it and what the issues of sustainability and environmental protection are like.
A wooden house stands for sustainability and environmental protection
Anyone who chooses a wooden garden house may appreciate the natural wood look and the feeling of having a small holiday home in the garden. But more and more garden owners are making a conscious decision in favor of a wooden garden house - for the sake of the environment. But how ecological and sustainable is a wooden garden house?
➔ Natural raw material & ecological building material
Wood is a natural, he althy and ecological building material and usually fits much better in a garden than a plastic shed. Wood radiates warmth, lives and breathes and retains these very natural properties best if glazes are used for care - and not opaque varnishes that cover up the naturalness of the wood instead of underlining it. In the best case, the wood for the garden house comes from local, sustainably managed forests.
Manufacturers like Perr, who specialize in sustainable garden houses, underline exactly this approach - that they use wood from sustainable management for thebuilding their log homes. At Perr, spruce and fir trunks from Swabia and Upper Bavaria are built into round log houses. The drying time for these woods is about one and a half to three years. Due to the long drying time, settlement and rotation can be reduced. The material for the wooden houses made of square timber comes from certified suppliers in Germany and Austria.
➔ Durable and climate-friendly
With good care that is suitable for the material, a wooden garden house will delight its owners for several years - with a natural look and an excellent room climate, which per se stands for cosiness. If a wooden garden house has reached the end of its lifespan, it is - due to the natural material - not a burden on the environment, but goes back to where it originally came from: in nature. Viewed over the life cycle of a wooden house, log houses are very climate-friendly and bind carbon dioxide. An environmentally friendly green roof on the garden house is also becoming increasingly popular.
Round log houses vs. square timber houses - these are the differences
At first glance, both variants are one thing above all: they look pretty thanks to the natural material, the wood. Log houses can be built with round logs, with square timber and with individual slats, which are glued in several layers before they become a log house.
➔ Square Log Cabin
The construction of a log house with square timber is the approach for the impatient, because the square logs that are required for the wooden house are manufactured industrially. Precise planning in advance is important. Then the logs can be prefabricated with profiles, cable ducts and combs. The symmetrical shape of the square logs enables a very modern house and room design. In addition, square logs can be used to create a comparatively smooth wall surface, which is always useful in terms of furnishing and design if the log garden house is to serve as an additional room.
Square planks are dimensionally stable, fit perfectly, almost free of settlement and cracks and very climate-friendly. Above all, asthmatics and allergy sufferers benefit from the natural wall and house design. Solid square block planks are mainly available in sizes from 8 to 28 centimeters balcony width. The strength of the square timber plank is also the wall thickness. The corners are erected overlapping (by "overlap") or with the so-called "Tyrolean Castle", as a more space-saving corner construction is called.
➔Log house with logs
Log houses with round logs are traditionally more likely to be found in areas close to nature, for example in popular hiking and skiing regions. The round planks are based on the natural shape of the tree stands. When building with round logs, it should be borne in mind that these can settle in the first few years after the garden house has been built. This is due to the drying of the logs. This also means that cracks cannot be avoided. Round logs between 11 and 25 centimeters in diameter are processed by professional log house manufacturers. The choice of diameter sometimes also depends on the premises and how they are used. During construction, the round wooden beams are stacked on top of each other and sealed with swelling tape in between. So-called overlaps occur at the corners.
These uses are conceivable for a garden shed
A garden shed is traditionally used as a shelter for garden equipment. Garden sheds, which are often even bricked, and which can serve as living space, can only be found in allotment gardens. This option is also available in the garden - and the possible uses could not be more diverse. A garden shed that offers significantly more space than a tool shed can function as an additional room - as a playroom for the offspring, as a music room, as an office, as a handicraft or hobby room or as a party room. The floor plan should be chosen accordingly.
Large rooms have usually proved their worth. Room divisions can also be implemented with furniture and a cozy interior. It is also conceivable to design the garden hut completely as a garden sauna - for relaxing, hot hours in your own garden.