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Garden rooms and sunrooms are the UK’s 2025 home MVPs. With 28% of workers hybrid, demand for quiet, light-filled spaces is real—and the best ones pair glazing with solid-wood furniture that ages beautifully. This designer guide covers PD rules (2.5 m/4 m heights, 50% curtilage), timber/finish picks, three blueprints for real footprints, and the trend data from Houzz and Chelsea that puts warm wood at the heart of indoor–outdoor living.

Multi-generational living is rising in the UK (ONS: 28% of 20–34s live with parents; multi-gen households up since 2011). This designer’s 2025 playbook shows how solid-wood partitions, extendable tables, slatted wardrobes and window seats create privacy, flexibility and calm in real-size homes—plus why Mangomood’s FSC, low-VOC pieces are built to be repaired, not replaced.

Damp and mould aren’t just maintenance headaches—they’re a design brief. This 2025 UK guide shows how solid-wood wardrobes, sideboards and benches—specified with slats, stand-offs and breathable finishes—help you hit the 40–60% RH sweet spot, warm up rooms and keep gear dry. With fresh data from the English Housing Survey and new timelines under Awaab’s Law, plus Mangomood’s FSC-timber pieces that plant a tree for every order.