In this guide, we’ll show you one of the easiest, fastest, and most cost-effective ways to install electricity, sockets, and lighting in a wooden garden cabin.
Whether your space is a garden room, home office, guest house, or garden gym — the process is very similar.
Start by running an electrical cable from your home’s main fuse box to the garden cabin.
You can choose to bring the cable in through the wall or the floor — either method works, so go with whichever is more convenient for your setup.
For this 30 m² garden room, we used 25 meters of 3 × 1.5 mm electrical cable for the lighting circuits, along with brown plastic cable covers to hide the cables and match the cabin walls.
We routed the cables for the wall lamps along the upper parts of the walls, and those for the ceiling lamps across selected wall sections and rafters. Each light was connected using the same type of cable to surface-mounted electrical switches.
To create 12 electrical points, we installed six double surface-mounted sockets.
For this part, we used 25 meters of 3 × 2.5 mm electrical cable and the same brown plastic covers to maintain a consistent look.
The cables and covers were neatly placed just above the skirting boards, and each double socket was mounted and connected accordingly.
This simple installation method is one of the quickest and most efficient ways to bring electricity into your garden building.
All materials — including cables, covers, sockets, switches, six wall lamps, and two ceiling lamps — were purchased from Leroy Merlin for just under €500.
The full installation took a professional electrician one full working day to complete.
