Do you enjoy hygge (Scandinavian cozzines)?

For my personal version of hygge:

In the back garden there is a bench seat (2 offcuts of wooden railway sleepers fixed onto a u-shaped low wall) with a DIY wooden "arbour" over / around it - which has treated Feather Board fence boards on three sides and a pitched roof of black Onduline sheets (www.wickes.co.uk/.../240039 ). 

The structural elements were like a pergola using wooden square fence posts (verticals and horizontals) and wooden arris rails (useful to form the roof skeleton).

Like a tiny shed, with a bench seat, plus, a completely open front, which is tall enough to be able to stand up without stooping. 

The roof doesn't only protect the bench but also extends further forwards like a porch (to keep both the sun and heavy rain off you for more months of the year).

The seat is just wide enough to seat 2 adults - good for a coffee break, or an informal garden picnic, or reading, or having a chat without feeling perceived.

Inside; there are a mounted a few large galvanised cup hooks - so that you can hang up (out of the way) things like: water bottle, torch, binoculars, or a zipped book sleeve.

I use a short, lightweight plastic / metal table with folding legs (fishing bivvy table) about the size of a lap tray - to provide somewhere to put food and drink (which can fold away under the bench when not in use).

Under the bench; I also keep a large plastic, clip-on lidded, storage box - for things like: cushions / a fleece blanket / fleece hat, scarf and gloves / a wind-up torch / spf lip balm / spf hand cream / spf face cream.

In our household this hygge area is known as: "the nook".

All the plants visible from the nook are native to the British Isles - which encourages wildlife.  You can see a birdbath, a wildlife pond, plus on one tree there is a birdbox.

This means you can sit in the fresh air of nature; and yet protected from sun, wind and rain. 

It also acts as something of a wild bird "hide" - as the birds quickly seem to become accustomed to someone sat there.

In really poor weather (very heavy rain / strong winds); I sometimes add a small rectangular camouflage / green tarp with eyelets - set horizontally (like the bottom half of a stable door) - so I can still see out into the garden).

Oh wow

Thank you so much for the detail it's so important.

This space sounds amazing especially the part where you can see the birds going about their birdy business.

It sounds very hygge.

I had my therapy today and my therapist has a garden room at her home and today I loved it because I could hear and see the the rain, it felt very hygge. 

Oh wow

Thank you so much for the detail it's so important.

This space sounds amazing especially the part where you can see the birds going about their birdy business.

It sounds very hygge.

I had my therapy today and my therapist has a garden room at her home and today I loved it because I could hear and see the the rain, it felt very hygge.