Examples of Backyard Pods – granny flats, studios, home offices, sleepouts, home extensions, and more!
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Browse examples of Backyard Pods in construction and completed by customers in suburban, city, and regional locations. Read how they built their Backyard Pods, whether as DIY projects or by getting installation to lock-up or fully completed (‘turnkey’). You’ll see how each Backyard Pod has been made unique by its owners in its design layout, colour choices, window and door choices, verandas and decks, etc. Find examples of backyard studios, office pods, granny flats (secondary dwellings) and granny pods (not quite self-contained), sleep-outs, pool houses, home extensions, commercial and movable buildings, rumpus room pods, man-caves, she-sheds, teenage retreats, yoga rooms, and more! We appreciate the small number of customers who take the time to send pictures. You might get ideas from their projects – everything from the cheapest budgets through to the deluxe. Whatever your dream with your Backyard Pod – just tell us and we’ll help. We have examples of Backyard Pods Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Newcastle, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, and almost everywhere in between.
DIY double-glazed home office pod 4m x 4m on acreage in rural Southern Tablelands NSW
Rural properties often evolve over time – perhaps starting with a small cabin and growing with enclosed verandas and outbuildings (sometimes over generations) until the homestead ideal is fully expressed. Our customer on acreage in the Southern Tablelands added a cozy double-glazed home office as a DIY building project – well done!
2BR prefab granny flat or cabin 6m x 9m, ‘Coolum’ design, delivered complete (QLD)
The deluxe 'Coolum' design 2BR prefab granny flat or self-contained cabin 6m x 9m is pre-wired, pre-plumbed, cyclone-rated, and delivered complete anywhere in Queensland. This upgraded example shows how basic prefab granny flat designs can be customised.
Quaint ‘she-shed’ 2.5m x 5m with veranda at Marayong, Sydney NSW
Much is said about man-caves but a rising number of 'she-sheds' and 'sheila-shacks' are being built DIY or professionally in backyards all over Australia. This quaint, cottage-like example at Maryong, in western Sydney NSW, represents one woman's BIG dream - just a LITTLE space!
Home extension pod for WFH dressmaker 4m x 7m in Burleigh Waters, Gold Coast QLD
This WFH dressmaker in Burleigh Waters, Gold Coast, got a home extension pod from Backyard Pods 4m x 7m built as a sewing workshop. Our customer (and their clients) can easily go to and from the main house in all weather.
Poolside studio pod with eaves 4m x 5m installed at Doncaster VIC
Fully installed for our customer at Doncaster, a suburb of Melbourne, this budget-minded pool house or poolside studio pod has eaves and is a more light and airy alternative to trying to build a basement rumpus room underneath a high-set home, without needing costly excavation.
Home office pod ‘garden office’ 3.6m x 5m with eaves and blade walls in Strathmore, Melbourne VIC
With WFH (work-from-home) many people in Melbourne need a separate home-office in the backyard. This one has views over the garden with black stacker doors a modern contrast with the Colorbond Monument cladding. Add eaves and blade walls for energy efficiency and detail - really cool.
Photography studio and darkroom pod 4.5m x 8m at Newcastle NSW
Creative people often need offices. That's where a multi-purpose pod like this combination photography studio and darkroom provides a custom solution, whatever your work-from-home needs. The cheapest way to get a decent-sized home office or work studio in your backyard is by starting with an office pod or studio pod kit.
Budget-minded Backyard Pod kit 3m x 7m at Condell Park School NSW
Even schools and other institutions are finding that building projects are more practical and affordable using flat-pack kits from Backyard Pods. Here's a Backyard Pod being installed at Condell Park School in western Sydney (it's one of three Backyard Pods there). You'll find Backyard Pods at other schools as well. Did you know there's even a Backyard Pod inside Sydney Harbour Bridge?
Poolside studio pod with facilities 4m x 5m installed at Cranebrook NSW
Who wouldn't like a poolside studio with bathroom and kitchenette in their backyard? At Cranebrook, in western Sydney NSW, this family squeezed an approved granny-flat style poolside studio into a tiny space with full approval and at very low cost. We're not keen on 'cream' Colorbond but here it matches perfectly with the existing Colorbond fence.
Yoga studio with bathroom pod 3.6m x 7m installed Newtown NSW
Many people want a backyard studio with bathroom for some idea they have in mind. This customer with a terrace house in Newtown, Sydney NSW wanted a yoga studio with bathroom in the backyard. With Backyard Pods, they were able to build what they wanted in a small backyard despite the difficult access. Interested in a backyard studio with a bathroom? Look at this one.
DIY backyard ‘yoga studio’ 3m x 5m at Walloon, Ipswich QLD
In a suburban backyard near Brisbane, one time-poor husband became a hero at home by building his wife a fully-certified yoga and meditation retreat as a weekend DIY project using a 3m x 5m kit from Backyard Pods.
Bedroom and ensuite home extension 2.5m x 5m + 4m x 7m L-shaped in Bonville cladding at Croydon, Sydney NSW
This approved bedroom and ensuite extension at Croydon in Sydney NSW was built more cost-effectively using Backyard Pod kits for the new structures, then fitting out the interior as normal. People wanting to extend their primary residence can also consider turning the pod into a home extension rather than creating a separate building.
Custom-sized backyard pod 2.6m x 4.3m for hobbies at Erskineville, inner-Sydney NSW
Inner-city properties have tight backyards, often with difficult access. This is where flat-pack Backyard Pod kits are the ideal solution. When an inner-city house (like this one at Erskineville, inner Sydney) was too small for fun, the owner got a compact Backyard Pod for their hobbies.
DIY 2-bedroom holiday cabin 3.6m x 13m with customised facade near Ballina NSW
David and Mark have a beautiful property not far from Ballina in northern NSW, where they provide family respite accommodation. They had one respite cabin on the property, made from an upcycled mining donger (pre-used demountable building). But when the time came to create a second and even better cabin, their options were limited. Their property is nowhere near a capital city and the site is difficult for trucks to access, so any kind of prefab kit home would have been totally unsuitable.
Garden studio 3.6m x 6m with hardwood decking at Ryde NSW
We love the Scandi look of this Backyard Pod lined internally with plywood (instead of Gyprock). Plywood is under-rated as an interior lining material but it's natural, easy to work with, and it ages beautifully. Take a look around this characterful 3.6m x 6m backyard studio with thoughtful windows and doors for a great flow between indoors and outside.
Studio pod with lining kit 3m x 6m near Doyalson, Central Coast NSW
3m x 6m is the most popular size for simple backyard studios like this Backyard Pod near Doyalson on the NSW Central Coast. Fresh interiors and thoughtful positioning on the site show the owner's attention to detail with their project, installed by one of the professional installers in our network who services the area between Sydney and Newcastle.
