Timber frame extensions to Outdoor Living

We live in a timber-framed house, which is great - it's warm and the walls don't eat drill bits. But we recently applied for planning permission to have a couples of rooms built above the garage - everyone runs away - they don't want to know! [sob] [sob] [sob]

I'm sure we will find someone eventually (even if they have to flatten the garage and start from the ground again), but for now we've redirected the funds and we're going to have the garden done. After fours years of living here, the grass is dying, we can't clear the trees (preservation orders on everything) and our outdoor table and chairs just fit onto the patio area.

What we want is a BIG patio area so we can BBQ with the best of them this summer, a nicely drained and growing grass area (for football of course) and some ground leveling and proper anchors posts in the trees for the kid's swing, slide and trampoline.

Finished off with some new patio doors off the playroom and we should be living the outdoor lifestyle which is generally not possible in the UK. I think we'll need to budget for some shelter as well.... Photos soon.