Outdoor sauna ideas: Turn your backyard into bliss
Reviewed by the Palmako UK content team with insights from our garden building experts. Imagine you step out into your backyard and instead of a dead space, you see your...
Palmako Garden Magazine
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How to use rocks to make your garden design more interesting
Rocks in a garden used to mean an old-fashioned rockery, with a few mossy stones and Alpines used to disguise a ‘difficult’ patch of sloping garden. For most of us...
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How to design and make a wildlife-friendly garden
There were newspaper reports this month lamenting the tidal wave of grey sweeping Britain’s front gardens. They were based on a report from the Royal Horticultural Society stating that 3...
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Our highlights from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
If you’ve got green fingers the Chelsea Flower Show is one of the must-see events of the gardening calendar, when people from all across the country descend on London to...
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Garden design ideas for garden buildings
In previous blogs on the Palmako website we’ve talked about the best place to position a garden building and designing a child friendly garden. We’ve also covered timber buildings and...
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Budget garden design - creative ways to design a garden on the cheap (or even for free)
In these times of austerity it can be hard to get a foot on the property ladder. However, if you’ve been lucky enough to save up a house deposit, have...
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Garden design ideas; taking design inspiration from great British gardens
If you’re considering revamping a section of your back garden, wondering about how to integrate a new garden building such as a summer house, or you have a blank canvas...
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How to protect your summer house in winter
In the UK, the greatest enemies of a timber garden building are moisture, rot and wind. And in winter, of course, the nation’s garden rooms, summer houses and sheds are...
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Flat pack, self build, DIY kits and self assembly - what's the difference?
‘Flat pack’, ‘self build’, ‘DIY kits’ and ‘self assembly’ are all-encompassing terms. They cover extremes such as a simple piece of flat pack furniture bought from the local DIY store,...
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How are large garden buildings delivered?
How are large garden buildings delivered? Palmako have been involved in the design, manufacture, delivery and installation of summer houses, timber offices, log cabins, pavilions and other garden buildings for...
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How to keep kids entertained during school holidays
Desperate to get your kids away from the TV this half term? Here are some holiday tips Children of the 1970s and 1980s may remember being forced to watch a...
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Build your own shed of the year
There may be too many property programmes on TV, but the annual Shed of the Year competition, just finished on Channel 4, is worth watching. It’s feel-good TV, a tribute...
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Unique garden office design
Project Name: Unique garden office design Location: Edinburgh Client Brief: Palmako Log Cabins were tasked to provide a unique version of our 70mm Heidi timber garden room for use as a...
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Modern log cabins versus traditional log cabins
Modern log cabin DIY kits take traditional timber designs and make them easier, cheaper and more convenient Friends in the US sometimes talk about their plans to build a traditional...
