Palmako Garden Magazine

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...

Timber summer house construction video
Timber summer house construction video Planning to build your own timber summer house or garden room this year? This helpful video from Palmako shows time-lapse footage of how the Claudia...
Bespoke timber office building
We’ve put together some more notes and photos on a Palmako bespoke office build (following the launch of our bespoke garden building design service). Project Name: Bespoke timber office building...
Timber garden buildings: low price versus good value
Most of us in the real world want to keep the price down when we buy a garden building. And because many timber garden buildings look more or less similar...
Barbecue all year round with a garden BBQ hut and grill
Next to the extraordinary Poison Garden at Alnwick Gardens in Northumberland is a quaint timber cabin. With its rustic logs and octagonal shape, it’s out of a story by the...
How to set up a home office on a budget
At the end of 2013 over 4 million people in the UK were self-employed – and the numbers keep on rising. Not all of these people are working at home,...
Bespoke log cabin in the woods!
Following on from last months’ post announcing Palmako’s new bespoke garden building design service, we’ve pulled together a few notes and photos on another bespoke project we undertook not long...
What’s the best eco-friendly timber treatment?
If you’ve ever browsed eco gardening forums or bee-keeping websites, you’ll have come across debates about the use of wood treatments and paints. The debates focus on fears that conventional...
Be inspired by a timber garden office
As more people become fed up with commuting and opt to work at home, we’re hearing more and more about the home office, particular the timber garden office. The design...
Innovative timber building design
This year Palmako Log Cabins launched a new bespoke garden building design service in order to allow people to customise our existing cabin designs, or to provide us with their...
How to look after a summerhouse; preserve then stain or paint!
An unloved summerhouse is a very sad sight. A vintage look is one thing; flaking paint and greying wood are quite another. Giving a shot of colour to a neglected...
New: Bespoke timber building service from Palmako
It’s great to dream. Stuck in traffic or unable to get a seat on train, your thoughts turn to different lifestyles. An office in your back garden. Setting up your...
Where to position a timber garden building - things to consider
There are so many good uses for a timber garde building (such as a log cabin, garden room or summerhouse); they can be used as a home office, studio, spare...
Garden building contruction video guides now online
https://www.youtube.com/@PalmakoUK/videos Garden building contruction video guides now online When it comes to buying online it’s not possible to get a real feel for the item that you’re interested in purchasing....