Yet a garden summer house can be far more even than just a great place to relax. With plenty of room for furniture and a generous roof height, a garden summerhouse gives you versatile accommodation to suit all needs. In fact many people use their garden summerhouse as an office or studio as it makes the perfect place to escape from everyday living. Others find that garden summerhouses are an ideal spot for the children to play, and a place to keep all their games and toys. For still others, the garden summer house is a splendid pavilion; the perfect centrepiece for all year round entertaining, bringing a whiff of romantic and luxurious living to any garden setting.

With so many garden summerhouses to choose from, there's something to suit every style and taste from the traditional cottage garden to a prestigious modern architect designed home. Unsurprisingly there's a choice of garden summer houses to suit every pocket too, ranging from just a few hundred pounds to several thousand. What you get depends upon your budget of course as well as the space you have available.

At the entry level, there are plenty of economical garden summerhouses that simply offer a new take on the garden shed with the addition of styrene glazed doors and windows. Moving up the range of garden summer houses you'll find many additional features such as fixed and opening windows, single and double locking doors and overhanging roofs to offer protection and shade. In addition, you'll find decks and verandas to sit out on as well as rails, balustrades and stairs plus a variety of trellises and fencing panels. In fact there's a garden summer house to suit every need.

In fact garden summer houses are offered with an exceptional selection of extra features including different glazing options, decorative strips, panels and finials, plus all kinds of roofing choices like felt, tiles, shingles and thatch. At the higher end of the garden summer house price range, luxury features predominate such as PVCu construction and double glazing, as well as extra rooms inside. These larger structures offer a very competitively priced alternative to extending your home.

Smaller garden summerhouses are easily assembled and erected by the average homeowner using DIY tools, but larger constructions will need professional trades and equipment ? especially where concrete bases or platforms need to be built. A timber garden summerhouse will usually be made using pre-treated timber from FSC ? approved environmentally friendly sustainable sources. Often a garden summerhouse will also be pre-stained, whilst others are left unfinished for you to stain or paint as desired. Moving up the price range, you will find some garden summer houses with pre-applied factory finishes in a variety of pleasing effects and colours.