Garden rooms
Garden cinema rooms
A garden room for films and sport. We’d love to build one.
Free design consultation and free quote.
Photo: one of our garden rooms. We haven’t built a cinema room yet.
A cinema room we’d love to make our first.
We haven’t built a cinema room yet, but it’s a room we’d love to design and build.
Like all our garden rooms, it would be planned with you around how you’ll use it, then built using the same timber-frame methods as a new home, for use all year round.
- South Oxfordshire
- Test Valley
- Berkshire
- Surrey
A design idea
A design idea, not a past project: how a garden cinema could be laid out.
What would come as standard
This is the specification on the garden rooms we build, and a cinema room would start from the same place.
- Frame
- A bespoke timber frame, made for your room, with an optional decorative dwarf brick wall.
- Base
- A concrete slab or ground screws.
- Insulation
- PIR insulation in the floor, and Actis Hybrid in the walls and ceiling.
- Roof
- A flat EPDM roof, or a pitched roof in tiles or metal sheet.
- Glazing
- Korniche glazing in Matt Anthracite Grey, RAL 7016.
- Cladding
- Cladding from Southgate Timber, Millboard or Cladco.
- Flooring
- Waterproof LVT flooring from Oake & Gray.
- Walls and ceilings
- Plastered and painted in Dulux white.
- Electrics
- Done by our dedicated electrical team, signed off and connected to your house’s main board.
- Heating
- Smart electric heaters, sized to suit the space.
- Plumbing
- For bars, toilets and bathrooms, including mains connections.
- Outside
- On request: patios, decking, snugs and covered areas, planting areas and paths.
If it needs planning permission, we’ll help with the application.
What this room needs
A garden cinema is planned around the picture, the sound and the seats. These are the points we design around.
Control over light
Doors and windows placed around the screen, with blinds where you need them.
Sound kept in
Typically double plasterboard on isolation clips over mineral wool, with a solid door and every gap sealed.
Power and cabling planned early
Positions agreed early, with cables typically in before boarding and a duct to the screen for later upgrades.
Height for screen and seating
Around 2.3m inside typically suits one row of seats, and 2.5 to 2.7m suits two on a riser, which may need planning permission.
Warm all year
Heating comes as standard for a cosy winter film night, with internet available as an extra for streaming.
Planning and building control
We help with planning permission or a Lawful Development Certificate, and handle building control sign-off on larger rooms.
Design your garden room
Choose a use, a size and your finishes, and watch your room take shape. When you’re happy, send it over and we’ll arrange a site visit to talk it through.
Cinema room questions
See all FAQsNot yet. It would be built the same way as the garden rooms we’ve built, to the standard specification on this page.
Yes, as standard. Our dedicated electrical team does all the electrics, signed off and connected to your house’s main board.
Yes. It would be built for use all year round, with PIR insulation in the floor, Actis Hybrid in the walls and ceiling, and smart electric heaters sized to suit the space.