Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Cabin Porn: book review

Cabin Porn Book Trailer from Cabin Porn on Vimeo.

We previewed the Cabin Porn book last month and since then we've been enjoying the actual thing. There are very few actual garden offices, but plenty of inspiration with chapters focusing on yurts, living underground, treehouses, and wilderness homesteads. It's not really a 'how to' book with in-depth advice on the nuts and bolts of building a shedlike structure, but there are plenty of detailed case studies which concentrate as much on the mindset and the reasons for going small as they do on what kind of broadaxe to buy. Fabulous illustrations, nicely designed, but could have done with an index and a Further Reading/links section. ----------------------------------------------------
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Monday, October 19, 2015

Airstream garden office



The Shedworking staff are big fans of Airstream garden offices so we were particularly glad to hear from regular reader Colin Shelbourn about this beauty which sold recently in Newport Beach as part of a house sale. --------------------------------------------------------------------
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Thursday, October 15, 2015

Classic Oak Barns


A nice video by WoodlandsTV with plenty of interesting information (e.g. about joints) from Classic Oak Barns showcasing a combined garage, workshop, garden tool/log-store building. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Plankbridge Cabins


We know Dorset-based Plankbridge as a shepherd's hut specialist but they are now branching out into bespoke cabins (pictured above) which are inspired by Victorian structures. They're on four wheels, set below the structure, and come clad in timber or corrugated iron. There's space for a double bedroom, en-suite shower room, living area and kitchen so it would be a rather comfortable garden office. ----------------------------------------------------
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Mews Garden Studio: Open House in Dublin


Architect John Feely's marvellous victorian townhouse and mews garden studio project is part of the excellent Open House Dublin project running later this week. Here's what John says about it:
The story of this townhouse project is a desire to live and work in a truly sustainable way. It is inspired by the traditional city model of 'living over the shop’, where the work place is annexed to, but also very much part of, the life of the house and its surrounding community.The house is situated opposite the stone walls of the Botanic Gardens. A Victorian red-brick mid terrace house has been faithfully restored and modestly extended.The Mews Garden Studio is situated within its own courtyard, entered via a sliding gate from the rear access road. South and west larch windows provide natural light and ventilation. The views of the garden, the courtyard and the planted passageway combine to make a vibrant green workspace.

It's open on Saturday from midday to 4.30pm.


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Monday, October 12, 2015

The Ladybird book of Sheds


According to the publisher: "This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the world about them. The large clear script, the careful choice of words, the frequent repetition and the thoughtful matching of text with pictures all enable grown-ups to think they have taught themselves to cope. The subject of the book will greatly appeal to grown-ups." Hopefully it will not be too appallingly clichéd, though I'm not holding my breath. Out in mid-November. --------------------------------------------------------------------
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Thursday, October 08, 2015

National Poetry Day: Shedworking poem

Here is Where Earwigs Dare by the marvellous Matt Harvey, arguably still the finest poem ever written about shedworking:
A silver trail across the monitor;
Fresh mouse-droppings beneath the swivel-chair;
The view obscured by rogue japonica.
Released into the wild, where earwigs dare -

You first went freelance - and then gently feral.
You worked from home - and then wandered out again,
Roughed it with spider, ant, shrew, blackbird, squirrel
In your own realm, your micro-vatican.

No name conveys exactly what it is -
Chalet? Gazebo? You were not misled
By studios, snugs, garden offices,
Workshops or outhouses. A shed's a shed -

And proud of it. You wouldn't want to hide it -
Wifi-enable rain-proof wooden box.
A box to sit in while you think outside it -
Self-rattling cage, den, poop-deck, paradox,

Hutch with home-rule, cramped cubicle of freedom,
Laboratory, thought-palace, bodger's bower,
Plot both to sow seeds and to go to seed in,
Cobwebbed, Cuprinol-scented, Seat of Power.
Matt's excellent collection The Hole in the Sum of my Parts is published by the Poetry Trust, nicely illustrated by David Hughes, and I would urge all readers to snap up a copy now. You can buy direct from Matt's site shop here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Tuesday, October 06, 2015

Abel & Cole mobile meeting pods


Here's the first group of Abel & Cole meeting pods put together by Garden2Office. They are almost complete and when finished will have floor sockets, artificial grass roofing and a formaldehyde-free ply industrial style interior. The buildings feature a strengthened floor cassette so that they can be moved around the warehouse in a re-shuffle if needed.
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Monday, October 05, 2015

Writer's Cottage 2



JVA's lovely 15 m² shedworkingesque design for two writers in Oslo (yes, there's a Writer's Cottage 1). The whole north-facing façade is made of glass, as is the desk. It's in the back garden of their home and, according to the architects:
"The clients wanted a space that would allow them to isolate themselves to focus on their writing and work, while at the same time offering a generous view over the surroundings. Their intention was that the project would work as an alternative to a cottage in the countryside."
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Thursday, October 01, 2015

Jeremy Vine's shed


While Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine is getting his sequins on for the latest incarnation of Strictly Come Dancing, here he is enjoying a shed being put up live in the studio during his lunchtime programme.
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