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Garden studio rooms may represent an aspirational lifestyle, can serve many roles from business premises, home study, entertainment area, play room, home cinema or granny annexe. For older children or teenagers, here are a few ideas which will release your school holiday dread into peacefulness and encourage children to be both happy and active.
Table tennis or Pool trials. Perfect those lightning reflexes and get moving with a table net or full set of table tennis gear. Garden studios are usually big enough to house a pool or tennis table and a supersized beanie bag for collapsing in victory.
Band practice. Electric guitars, keyboards, full drum kits and anything else to hand can be outrageously played without irritation or interruption in the garden studio music room.
Social aspects. The gang's club-house, the evening meeting place, the safe haven for invited friends to meet and have a bit of privacy without the dangers of being on the street.
Gym fitness. Hang up the punch bag, employ the chin up bar and sit up bench, fill with mats and exercise balls. Encouraging fitness as a skill for life is a healthy way for teenagers to spend time and develop a good physique and habit for the future.
The Den. Every boy needs a den. How about big comfy bubble chairs, maybe a terrestrial TV. Having asked my son for ideas, I now regret it. He said, dunno, just a space to chill, have house parties and stuff'. House parties? I prefer the optional concept of a, study room', for transfer tests, GCSEs and A levels. Ooh, teenagers. It's all about me.
With a multi-purpose space like a studio in the garden, teenagers have no excuse but to be engaged, active, happy young things. And I shall tell them so, often. No more the eternal, I'm bored, I've nothing to do', on the first day of half term. A thoughtfully stocked garden studio can be the solution to pugnacious attitudes. Medically, we are told, exercise releases endorphins which make us feel good and allow us to behave in a more rational, balanced and positive manner. Likewise, self expression through music or art can have a stabilising effect. More power to the garden studio for it's engaging range of possibilities.
