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Get your sheds ready for summer!

The humble garden shed is often left alone and neglected during the winter months, but now with spring just around the corner it’s a good time to take a look at our sheds and see if it’s time to invest in a new one ready for summer. Dunster House offer a wide range of products … Read more

Garden offices – better than a spare bedroom?

If you are working from home, or planning to be working from home in the near future, you’ve probably thought about which room you will be based in. Many people simply reorganize a spare bedroom and use it as an office, and while this may make sense in the short term, a small box room … Read more

Log Cabins – facts about planning permission

Many people like the idea of building a log cabin in their garden, but some are put off because they are concerned about planning permission regulations, and whether these will affect them. The truth of the matter is, if you are careful in your selection of log cabins, you will not need planning permission, and … Read more

Garden offices – the answer to working from home?

If you are lucky enough to work from home, you’ve probably thought long and hard about where you will be based during your working hours. You may be spending up to forty hours a week in this environment, so it has to be both comfortable and practical. That small box room you were thinking of … Read more

Wooden garden furniture lasts for years

Even during the early part of autumn it’s still possible to enjoy the garden. The daytime temperatures are still pleasant for the most part. It’s great to sit out and enjoy the last of the warmth and sunshine before the winter sets in for real in a few months time. Cheap patio furniture might have … Read more

Illuminate Your Garden in Different Ways

Although we’re not having much of a summer weather-wise, during the summer months it is easy to forget how dark it can be in the winter. However, December will soon roll around and you will be feeling your way to the wheelie bin at 5pm just to put out the rubbish. This is where exterior … Read more

Led rope lighting does more than add atmosphere

Led rope lights have been hung up around many a garden or patio area throughout the years to add a bit of atmosphere and give that “je ne sais pas” feel. Rope lighting certainly is very pleasing on the eye and it can transform even the most unattractive of outdoor spaces into beautiful little havens. … Read more

Safety and Beauty

Using outdoor solar lights can help create a perfect garden for you to enjoy. However, whilst many may have considered the aesthetic benefits of such a purchase, many won’t have considered the safety aspects which can be just as beneficial, if not more so, than the fact that they will undoubtedly make your garden more appealing.

Enjoying Your Garden

A surprising number of people spend a lot of time working on their garden, and whilst having a beautifully manicured lawn and a wide array of stunning flowers will still be great to look at, all that hard work will be far more richly rewarded if you are able to spend more time out in the garden, rather than just staring out at it.

Kitchen worktops can be used as a gardening aid

Kitchen worktops serve a number of purposes.Their primary one is their practical use as a space on which items can be stored and food can be prepared.However,they also have an aesthetic function.Indeed, these days there is such a variety of wooden worktops and other types of product available that consumers generally find it easy to source versions that perfectly compliment the looks of their cooking areas.

Does Your Tree Need Surgery?

Many people still don’t entirely understand just what tree surgery involves. It conjures up images of life-saving operation to save critically ill trees, or a delicate job to remove a trunk’s internal organs.

Could garden offices become more popular?

As more firms begin to enable staff to work from home, garden offices may become increasingly popular.
Such spaces can help people achieve a better work-life balance and they mean they are still able to achieve a sense of separation between the environments in which they perform their professional roles and those they relax in during the evenings and weekends.

Garden fencing ‘should be repaired before winter’

Many consumers and businesses have outdoor spaces and most want the areas to look their best.With this in mind, green-fingered TV personality Alan Titchmarsh has issued some tips so that people can make the most of what they have.Writing in the Daily Mail, the expert pointed out that before the harshest time of winter, individuals should replace and repair garden fencing and other items.

Report highlights importance of effective fencing

The release of a new report has highlighted the need for effective wire fencing among those responsible for caring for animals.

According to a report in the Independent, the document noted that London Zoo was the victim of an incident in which some of its inhabitants died.

Wire fencing can protect veg from pests

Many companies, smallholders and homeowners across the country grow fruit and vegetables.In some cases, this is purely for enjoyment and to generate a little produce to cook and eat, while in others it is an essential means of living off the land or of generating profit.

Time to get to grips with garden fencing, publication advises

With winter tightening its grip on the UK and memories of summer and the green and colourful flora and fauna an increasingly distant memory, now is the ideal time to repair or replace garden fencing, it has been suggested.

According to the Shropshire Star, the lack of plants in gardens at present makes the process easier.

Garden furniture to be sold by charity

A Cheshire based charity hopes to sell wooden garden furniture and indoor items to help raise money for poorer families living in the area.The homeless charity, Save the Family hopes that members of the community can get involved in making and selling garden furniture sets and other items which will then be sold to raise money.