Blueprint Home Offices: a wide range of shedworkers

If you still need convincing about the range of jobs which you can do in a garden office, Sussex-based Blueprint Home Offices has an impressive list of satisfied shedworkers which is well worth a browse. These include writer Vitali Vitaliev; Su Jones (who works with three other people in her garden office); Philip and Sarah who run a recruitment business, based in London; Kirsten Dhar, who has a medical clinic in the garden of her north west London home; Mike Kyne (whose garden office is pictured above), owner of a Medical Import and Distribution Company; Michael Cox, who runs a speciality spectacle lenses business; and Colin Russell, a lawyer working in the local community in Surrey. And here's what Vitaliev says about shedworking:

You know what's the most difficult thing about being a writer? It is getting up every morning, trudging to your desk and forcing yourself to write (all writers hate the process of putting words to paper). With the garden office, however, I don't have to force myself any longer. On the contrary, I look forward to getting there and writing. Quite unbelievable. In a way, you've helped me overcome one of the main obstacles in my work for which I am eternally grateful.

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Battersea Courtyard Office

A rather interesting feasibility study by Shape Architecture at the end of a London mews hidden behind a garden wall. Here's how they describe it:

A lightweight glazed canopy structure sits on the other side of the garden gate linking the new office with an existing office. Leading off the glazed entrance area is a courtyard garden. The composition of the building is defined by its key views from the neighbouring houses and realised as a sedum roof with various planted spaces around it. Beneath which a simple office building sits.

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Shed gym

The Shed Gym from Feix & Merlin is under construction for a client's Grade II listed Georgian Town House in Kennington, London. It has a partly open timber-clad deck which slides to provide access to the gym area - click the image above to see it move (opens in a different window). The exterior is clad in black mirror finish stainless steel or as they put it "a black pearl nestled underneath the dense cover of the existing vegetation of the garden". Feix & Merlin were also responsible for one of the most intriguing of the Bathing Beauties beach huts project, Eyes Wide sHut.

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The Elektron: luxury duplexes with designer sheds

The Elektron is a 25-storey Barratt development close to Canary Wharf in London Docklands with hundreds of one and two-bedroom apartments, rooftop turbines and solar energy collectors. It also has two luxury duplexes on the 20th and 21st floors with cracking views of the Thames and the city and, best of all, large terraces with what Barratt call "a designer shed".


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Castles Carey

Castles Carey is run by Jeffrey Carey, ex Queens Dragoon Guard, Cliveden marketing director and picture framer. Their specialism is treehouse structures such as the shedlike atmosphere above, an 8ft square summerhouse raised off the ground 9ft with a balcony all the way round, clay tile roof and two sleeping platforms. They also offer specific garden office designs too such as the one below.

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Natasha Solomons: shedworker

Writer Natasha Solomons is a shedworker whose successful first novel is Mr Rosenblum’s List or Friendly Guidance for the Aspiring Englishman (in the US it’s Mr Rosenblum Dreams in English). Here's what she says about her Dorset garden office:

From the moment when the first daffodils appear, I can be found in the summerhouse at the bottom of the garden. It has no electricity and I listen to a wind-up radio for entertainment – but this is my favourite place to write. My closest neighbour is a rather bumptious pheasant who comes to sit on the step and check up on me.

And as this post reveals, she also has an interest in shepherds' huts.

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