Multi-shedworking space: Those Garden Rooms

An interesting garden office build from Those Garden Rooms, designed for a small company as an area for their staff to shedwork in but also as a meeting space for clients. Barry Chatham from TGR says:

"The building is built on three separate style bases supported in a number of manners as the terrain changed from concrete to loose gravel. This needed to be addressed from the onset as we had a strict deadline for build, as our client RLW Roofing wanted to be in within 10 days."

The build consists of a 4.5m bi-fold doors frontage with three floating double glazed units, with double glazed units to split the rooms internally to create different internal spaces: there's a large open plan reception, a more intimate office space and a small conference room. "We opted for angling the external fascia to add interest to the eye," says Barry, "and an angled roof leaning toward you as you looked at the building as this was a requirement of the client as he wanted to show the type of things he can create for our own clients."


If you want a chat with the Those Garden Rooms folk, you can catch up with them at the National Homebuilding & Renovating Show at the NEC March 18-21 (they also have lots of free tickets if you'd like one).

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Garden show season: shedworking preview

Garden show time is upon us and the first designs are starting to drift into the bigger RHS shows. It's still very much early days but there are already a couple of promising possibilities. Above is a show garden from the Malvern Spring Gardening Show, The Morgan Motor Company Garden: it's a "wildlife-friendly interpretation of the traditionally formal front garden" but I particularly like the look of that shedlike structure at the top left of the picture. And at Chelsea, the Laurent-Perrier garden from Tom Stuart-Smith will be "a private, intimate space for entertainment or quiet reflection" and the main element will be a bronze pavilion by architect Jamie Fobert.
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Shed-sized flat for sale for £200,000

The media are describing this titchy flat in Knightsbridge as the size of a snooker table but we think a better comparison would be with a shed: it measures 11ft by 5.5ft, was converted from a closet and features the intriguingly described "shower-cum-wardrobe". Don't all rush at once.
Thanks to Uncle Wilco for the alertness
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Radio Shedworking

We're now a radio station! Well, kind of. Using the marvellous audioboo technology, we'll be posting a weekly 'show' of shedworking news, events and interviews. Simply click on the panel just above to hear the first ever recording (we'll sort out the music properly for the next one, it's maybe a teeny bit quiet... also a bit crackly in places which we will also iron out for next time). It's also technically a podcast so you can subscribe to it as well. Your thoughts are, as always, very welcome.
Picture top is the Dream and Fly mentioned in the show.
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Win a signed copy of Shedworking's Literary Editor's new novel

Our Lit Ed Sarah Salway has a new novel out, Getting The Picture, and to celebrate its arrival she's giving away a signed copy on her blog (see this post). It's all about love and life in an old people's home (told in epistolary format) and you have to send her your favourite quute about love and old age to enter - though if you manage to get sheds in their somewhere you might be able to improve your chances (and benches, Sarah likes benches). Closing date for entries, March 26 (the birthday of Shedworking's staff no less).
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Typoretum: new shedworking headquarters

Traditional letterpress typographer and printmaker Typoretum, who feature in the forthcoming Shedworking book, have moved shedquarters to a new garden office and they have kindly put lots of photos of the new place up on twitpic. "We moved and couldn’t take the old shed with us," says Justin who runs Typoretum. The new print shop is a much improved — not to mention greatly enlarged — version!"

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