MOSS Blog
Follow our blog for tips and info on adding extra space to your home. From designing through to planning, material considerations through to landscaping and interior design. We’ll also describe previous and current projects in detail to give you inspiration for your own projects.
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How to break a Property’s Ceiling Price
By renovating our clients’ property we’ve increased its value by £315K in just one year!One year, £200K spent, NO planning permission needed and our clients’ property has just been valued at a whopping £315K above the value they bought it for in 2017.Many...
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How do I get electrics to my garden room?
Improve the comfort of your garden buildingDo you have plans for a summer house or home office at the bottom of the garden but feel like the logistics of getting electrics to it are holding you back? It might not be as complicated a task as you think! ...
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Galvanised Steel for Strength, Beauty and Durability
The most versatile material used in our buildings. Galvanised steel is by far the most versatile material that we use in the construction of our buildings. Not only is it part of the primary structure in the Park Range of MOSSpods but it also features...
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Garden Rooms Bristol
Does this Google Maps scene look similar to your street? Do you live in an inner city terraced house with a standard sized back garden like our clients do in Bristol? Are you dreaming of extra space at home or a retreat that you can escape to in the...
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Should We Extend or Move?
Have you considered all your options for improving your current home before you abandon ship? There are several ways to add space to a house that could be as simple as re-configuring the internal arrangement of rooms, adding an extension or even getting...
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Interior Timber Finishes
The various species of wood we use inside the MOSSpods.Having discussed the Larch timber used to clad our buildings in a blog a few weeks ago, it’s time to go indoors and tell you about each of the beautiful timbers we have chosen to feature inside our...
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Aluminium Windows and Doors for Garden Rooms
Why we chose aluminium frames for our ‘River Range’ garden buildings. Manufacturers of windows and doors are offering a lot more choice of design and materials these days which means we can offer several styles and price ranges for our garden rooms and...
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Why We Choose Siberian Larch Timber Cladding
There are many beautiful timbers used for cladding buildings. In this second blog from our materials series, we explain why we have chosen Siberian Larch Timber over alternative species as the cladding for our MOSSpods.Siberian Larch (Larix sibirica) is a...
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What’s a Better Alternative to Roofing Felt?
Know what your Garden Room is made of and invest wisely.Advances in building technology and products have flown far further than traditional felt roofing from yesteryear. Modern flat roofs, done right, can be fantastically energy efficient and extremely...
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Outdoor Living Space in the Garden
How to make the garden part of your home with 5 simple design tips. Many of our projects include landscape and garden design as integral elements of home renovations and extensions. We’d like to share 5 essential tips that we’ve learnt for maximising your...
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A New ‘You’-Life-Balance
Take a fresh outlook on your home life this New Year and focus on finding space for you and your wellness without 'life' getting in the way. It’s during this funny in-between period between Christmas and New Year that we have time to ponder what the year...
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Accommodating the whole family this Christmas?
Are you dreaming about your perfect family Christmas but worried about where they’ll all sleep?! Festive preparations are ramping up a notch and it’s now full steam ahead to preparing your perfectly executed family Christmas. Fingers are just about healing...
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Stylish Garden Storage and Sheds made in Bristol
Upgrade your rickety B&Q shed to something worth it’s valuable space. Building a garden room at the bottom of the garden often means sacrificing the dilapidated shed where tools are being propped up by years of dusty cobwebs. You’ll still need...
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Timber Dining Room Extension near Bath
A luxury extension that fitted both house and budget like a glove. This relatively small extension, of only 14 m2, has made a significant difference to the kitchen and dining area of our clients’ house; they are thrilled with the transformation of their...
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Designing and Building a Modern Home Extension: it’s all in the planning!
On-budget solutions that add space and value to your home. We all want a luxury, swift and on-budget solution to add space and value to our homes, but it’s something that the construction industry isn’t always known for providing. However, times are...
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Garden Room Home Office in Bristol
An all-year-round pod for the whole family. We often see how a MOSSpod becomes the hub of a household (even when it’s in the garden!) and this was certainly what happened for a Bristol client after we installed a Park Range garden office and a bespoke...
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Designing Bespoke Garden Rooms
Flexible design for any space and any location. We thought it would be fun to share with you some MOSSpod designs we have created for clients over the years. Lots of you think outside the box when considering your garden room designs and this is exactly...
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Home Office and Holiday Let in Bath
An adaptable space for years to come. You may need some extra space for one purpose, whether it’s extra room for the children or a garden office; but these needs will inevitably change over time. Our client in Bath loves the flexibility of her new garden...
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Design and Build vs Traditional Builders
Consider a one-stop shop for design, project management and construction. Do you feel overwhelmed at the thought of organising your new project? Does the idea of contacting countless trades and companies, from electricians and designers to groundwork...
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Modern Timber Extension near Bath
A MOSS extension, complete with garden landscaping and interior design – a multidisciplinary project. Liaising with endless contractors for a project can be daunting and difficult and many clients have talked about the ease of working with one company who...
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Top 5 Glampsite Number Crunching Tips – Tip 5!
Encourage longer stays in your glamping pods. Discourage the odd one-night-stay that will only cost you more than you make. Putting a 3-night minimum into your staying policy encourages longer stays, which will be more economically and logistically beneficial for the...
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Top 5 Glampsite Number Crunching Tips – Tip 4!
Comfort not Canvas - maximise your number of guests by offering all-year-round accommodation. British winter holidays are in! Cosy fires, marshmallows, snug blankets and crisp winter walks. Offer the cosiest of holidays in the countryside. Holiday makers are...
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Top 5 Glampsite Number Crunching Tips – Tip 3!
Renting glamping units rather than buying allows bigger and more instant results. This week’s tip considers the idea of renting glamping pods rather than buying them outright for your glampsite venture. Several benefits of this will enable you to build your business...
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Top 5 Glampsite Number Crunching Tips – Tip 2!
How to maximise your Glamping business earning potential - Tip 2 Last week we published our first tip for ensuring your glamping business stands out from the crowd. Read Tip 1. ‘Take Advantage of your Location’ in our last blog post. This week’s tip focusses on the...
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Top 5 Glampsite Number Crunching Tips
How to maximise your Glamping business earning potential – Tip 1 Over the next few weeks we will be sharing 5 essential aspects to consider when setting up your glamping dream. With staycations on the rise, it’s vital that your glamping business stands out from the...
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Going Underground for a Family Home
The transformation of a 60's 2-bed bungalow into a contemporary 5-bed property with no need for planning permission. One of our most exciting projects to date has been the transformation of a compact two-bedroom bungalow into a stylish five-bedroom family home in...
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Landscaping around a Garden Room
Ideas for transforming your garden into an extra room of the house. The environment around your new garden room or extension is as important as the building itself. It has to sit comfortably, nestling within the landscape and it has to work harmoniously with the rest...
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Contemporary Cladding the Nordic Way
The Wonders of Corrugated Steel in Modern Design One of our favourite materials is the dark grey corrugated steel cladding (fondly nicknamed ‘wriggly tin’), which we use on our River Range MOSSpods and Glamping pods. It’s incredibly versatile: we use it on both walls...
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Building a Garden Room Home Office
A Customer’s Journey to Create Extra Space and Garden Landscaping A couple from mid-Wales realised they were running out of room. Their lovely Welsh stone cottage just didn’t quite offer enough space: the family was growing with baby number 3 on the way, so they...
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Don’t fall into the trap of offering bog-standard glamping accommodation!
What experience are holidaymakers looking for? What is it that makes someone choose one place over another? It is their capacity to offer the alternative; to offer something that tickles the taste buds because it’s something they haven’t seen before. The glamping...
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What?! I don’t need planning permission for my garden room or spacious extension?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you’re going to build upwards, outwards or in the garden, you must be in want of planning permission. But this is one of those common misconceptions that hinders even the bravest and boldest amongst us from developing...
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“A Room of One’s Own”
Is your house crowded and your mind cluttered? Are you irked by a knock at the door every 30 seconds or have to play your music absurdly loud to drown out family noise so you can concentrate? Are the walls elbowing you while the bookshelves seem to be forming their...
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2018: the year to join the glamping business boom
Do you have a little land, a large garden, or a handy field? Well, this is the time to buckle up and see that land as cash potential because the glamping trend is firing on all cylinders and you could be earning a small fortune. Glamorous...
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