Green Granny Flats

Designing a backyard living space will not only boost the value of your home, but it will also truly enrich your home experience. While a beautiful outdoor studio can become your hub of creativity, a stylish granny flat will provide you with a guest house, kids’ play area or a rental property. Furthermore, this will be a great opportunity to enhance the eco-friendliness and sustainability of your home design, creating a greener, healthier and more inspiring outdoor area.

A green outdoor music studio and study

Those who’ve always wanted their private home studio or a study where they can work on themselves and get their creative juices flowing will be delighted with an outdoor studio and study room. When designing your area of creativity, you should find different ways to blend its style with its surroundings. Merging nature and design is a great way to create a green, eco-friendly studio. You can also use sustainable materials, such as salvaged wood, bamboo, cork, repurposed brick, etc. Insulation is another great opportunity for eco-friendliness, so make sure to go with a sustainable solution. Functionality and inspiring décor will be key to designing a stimulating environment. Plants, VOC-free colour scheme featuring inspiring tones and reinvented furniture are all welcome to an eco-friendly hub of creativity.

A stylish and lush garden room

If you want to design an outdoor retreat that celebrates nature, you should definitely go with a sumptuous garden room. This can be your personal oasis for relaxation, a meditation room or simply a cozy reading nook. However, the key lies in implementing plenty of greenery. Climbers and creepers can embellish your exterior walls and provide your green room with additional layers of insulation. The green walls of this peaceful retreat will blend in perfectly with the backyard environment, filling it with a soothing, natural vibe. You can go with large skylights that will fill your outdoor haven with natural light. Finally, you can embellish it with sustainable fabrics, green decorations and energy-saving fixtures. You can even go with a semi-enclosed area that will blend in with its surroundings more naturally.

A contemporary and customized granny flat

Building a granny flat in your backyard is a functional and profitable option that will provide you with extra privacy, more usable space and a truly inspiring backyard retreat. Some of the best granny flats on the market feature a stylish contemporary, sustainable and personalized design so that they can meet homeowners’ needs. Furthermore, they typically incorporate energy-efficient features that provide owners with additional benefits. You can incorporate other green features, such as LED lighting, energy-saving appliances and water-saving faucets. Of course, you don’t have to install all of these upgrades at once, but go one step at a time. Nonetheless, a stylish granny flat will be a beautiful and functional addition to your home that you may even rent at some point.

A rustic backyard retreat

A small rustic unit in your backyard might be just what you need. You can go with a tiny design and still have a truly inspiring backyard haven. You can save a lot of space if you go with sliding doors and a large skylight. What’s even better is the fact that you can repurpose old materials and furniture because you’re trying to create a rustic look. You can use old planks, salvaged wood, disassembled furniture and other old pieces that have preserved their quality. Energy-efficient doors and windows will help you enhance the sustainability of your rustic retreat, preventing heat loss and gain.

An outdoor/indoor sanctuary

For a cohesive, nature-inspired look, you can design an outdoor sanctuary that merges the outdoors with the indoors. It can feature energy-efficient wall-to-wall windows and sliding doors that will subtly erase the boundaries between the interior and exterior. Adding a small deck to your outdoor/indoor room will extend its floor plan into your backyard. Plenty of greenery, sustainable materials and green décor will make this outdoor space a true green retreat.

With these stylish, eco-friendly and inspiring backyard additions, you’ll truly enhance your house
appeal while also boosting your property’s functionality and value.

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Article written by, Derek Lotts, Writer and researcher e: derek.b.lotts@gmail.com