For many people, the very idea of a wooden summer house creates a perfect vision of summer; full of lazy days, warm breezes and buzzing bees. Yet a wooden summer house can be far more than just a great place to relax and enjoy the beauty of your garden. With plenty of room for furniture and a generous roof height, a wooden summerhouse gives you versatile accommodation to suit all needs. In fact many people use their wooden summerhouse as an office or studio as it makes the perfect place to escape from everyday living.

A wooden summerhouse will usually be made using pre-treated timber from FSC-approved environmentally friendly sustainable sources. Quite often a wooden 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 wooden summer houses will have pre-applied factory finishes in a variety of pleasing effects and colours.

With so many wooden 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. Some people find that wooden summer houses are an ideal place for the children to play as well as a place to keep all their games and toys. Whilst for others, the wooden summer house is an elegant pavilion; the perfect centrepiece for all year round entertaining, bringing a whiff of romantic and luxurious living to any garden setting.

You'll find too that there's a choice of wooden summer houses to suit every pocket. What you get depends upon your budget of course as well as the space you have, but there are plenty of models available ranging from just a few hundred pounds to several thousand. The most economical wooden summerhouses simply offer a new take on the garden shed with the addition of styrene glazed doors and windows. As you move up the price range though, you'll find many wooden summer houses with additional features such as fixed and opening windows and single or double locking doors. Some have overhanging roofs to offer protection and shade, or 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 wooden summer house to suit every need and in addition, many wooden 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. Luxury features predominate at the higher end of the wooden summer house price range, such as double glazed windows and doors, as well as extra rooms inside. These larger wooden summerhouses offer a very competitively priced alternative to extending your home. Smaller wooden 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.