Ex-demo garden offices for sale

Warwick Buildings has two ex-demo offices on offer as they are currently re-furnishing their Show Site ready for the new season. Pictured above is a 12' x 8' garden office with Zebrano laminate floor, painted in a Farrow & Ball lichen green. Price new would be £7,000, now £4,625 plus delivery price (and includes assembly onto a prepared base and new felt tiles). The second office is 8' x 8' with full length glass in the gable end, front canopy with lights, oak effect laminate floor. Was £6,000, now down to £3,975 with assembly onto base and new felt tiles. More details here
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Garden office: before and after

Source: Uploaded by user via Lynn on Pinterest

Lynn Fotheringham from InsideOut Garden Buildings is one of the first garden office suppliers starting to use Pinterest. Here's an example from her boards, above, and here's what she said about it on Twitter

Before and after. Old 20th C. shed, rotting and damp. New replacement 21st C. studio, warm, dry and beautiful. pinterest.com/pin/1528409810…

— Lynn Fotheringham (@lynnfot) February 27, 2012

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The Shed silent movie

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Home office hotspots

According to a survey by Smart Growth Analytics, Surrey comes top of the list of homeworking and shedworking spaces of 174 areas in England and Wales. Smart worked out the figure by using the percentage of home offices as a proportion of all those in employment in the area. Apparently, Surrey has 27,000 home offices and almost 5% of those employed in the area work in them. The average is nearer 5,000.

The top 25 home office hotspots are dominated by the South East. Here are the next batch of placings
• Hampshire (South East, 2nd)
• Hertfordshire (East of England, 3rd)
• Kent (South East, 4th)
• Essex (East of England, 5th)
• Oxfordshire (South East, 6th)
• Buckinghamshire (South East, 7th)
• West Sussex (South East, 8th)
• Cambridgeshire (East of England,10th)
• Camden (London, 13th)
• Kensington and Chelsea (London, 16th)
• East Sussex (South East, 17th)
• Suffolk (East of England, 21st)
• Barnet (London, 22nd)
• Norfolk (East of England, 23rd)
• Westminster (London, 24th)

Jim Plunkett-Cole, Principal Analyst at Smart Growth Analytics, said: "The findings demonstrate the economic importance of home offices in regional economies across the Country. They begin to help us understand the increasingly important home-based economic functionality of the more rural and residential areas outside of London, and particularly the Home Counties and Shire Counties across England & Wales. They provide strong supportive evidence of a need for home office support across these areas in order to maximise their economic contribution. In particular, they demonstrate a need for higher speed broadband, ‘virtual’ business support services and networking."
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Shedworking in the Financial Times

There's a big piece in the FT today by Jonathan Foyle - Shed Your Commute - to which we contributed lots of research and quotes. It's a great piece and well worth a look. Here's a snippet:

"Shedworkers contribute £6.1bn to the UK economy. This staggering estimate comes from a 2010 poll carried out by communications specialist Twelve Thirty Eight. It found that more than half of shed-based businesses in the UK (61.3 per cent) are run by sole traders, with 32.3 per cent employing between two and five workers. The average turnover of a shed-based business is £76,449, and the creative industries seem to thrive among the hydrangeas."

Pictured above is Jonathan's own garden office. Here's what he says about it:

"It’s built from salvage, a 12ft wide by 8ft deep and 8ft high confection of architectural bits and bobs: sash windows, recycled roof slates and a foppish Regency pediment, filled with books, much crockery, candles, oil paints, more salvage and an armchair. It’s a wonder I get any work done."

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Extending wifi to garden office

An interesting piece on Premitel looks at the thorny issue of using wifi in your garden office when there is a wireless router in the main home but the signal is not strong enough to reach the shedworking space. Essentially, they suggest HomePlug:

"In recent years HomePlug devices have increased the speed and range over which they operate so that they can support data intensive services such as video streaming and gaming. They can also operate over mains electrical systems that have more than a single phase. Homeplug will never be able to beat the speed or security of a direct cable connection or the convenience of a standard wireless connection. However, in home or office premises where there are wireless coverage black-spots and installing cabling would be too expensive HomePlug should be considered as a viable and cost-effective alternative."

The details are not too appallingly technical so it's well worth nipping along for more information if this is a problem you're facing.
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Multipurpose shedworking

One of the beauties of garden offices and wellbuilt garden buildings in general is that while they're perfect for working, they can also be used for other purposes too. Here's quite a large build from The Stable Company which is currently being used less for actual working and more as a relaxation area for children (it also has a washroom), and with a triple garage attached. The main area is 7.89m x 4.71m with the triple garage block, 9m wide x 5.50m and it's in Chorleywood, just down the road from Shedworking HQ.

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