Create a cosy hideaway

“More popular than ever, garden rooms are a useful addition to any space,” says Lake. “They can be used as office spaces, crafting rooms, yoga studios or places to enjoy a million other activities.

“You can adapt an existing building, such as a large shed, garage or greenhouse, or commission a new pod, cabin or summer house. Perhaps you’d like the garden room to reflect the garden and have a verdant, naturalistic ‘potting shed’ vibe, or you could opt for something strikingly modern that contrasts with the garden that surrounds it.

“If it’s a contemporary structure – like a glass conservatory – a great way to bring the outside in is by using green, the colour of nature, for walls and skirting boards. Green glass-bottle vases and faux plants can bring a quirky botanical feel to a sleek modern space.” Top tip: “If you have a surplus of blooms from your garden, cut them and arrange in galvanised metal buckets filled with water. Arrange by a doorway or at the bottom of a staircase.

“It creates a sense of walking through a flower garden.”

A timber-clad Scandi-style cabin, designed and built by stylist Rose Hammick’s husband Andrew, with walls clad in recycled wood from delivery pallets and metal-framed windows and doors salvaged from an old factory.

From left: Artificial Medium Potted Orchid, £165, Sweetpea & Willow; Artificial Crown Daisy head plant, £21, Artificial Dusty Miller plant, £20, both from The Contemporary Home.