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Emma Townshend enjoys a rather special pool pavilion...Chief Home Officer is now very much on the Home Office Highway (pictured above)... Shedworld is on the hunt for a shed full of insects... The Daily Telegraph reports on what looks increasingly like a credit crunch in the beach hut market... The New York Times takes an intelligent and detailed look at the MOMA prefab exhibition which includes Wes Jones' Primitive Hut (below)The Birmingham Mail suggests you rush out and buy a garden office right now... Gardener's World blogger James Alexander-Sinclair picks out his favourite gardening-related blogs including Shedworking... Friend of Shedworking Chief Home Officer interviews Friend of Shedworking Neal Zimmerman as a home office pioneer... Kits and Mortar is getting excited about the prospect of hemp and lime infill...Weburbanist picks seven tip top beach houses including this stone shedworking construct at Castel Meur... please help to support Shedworking - which is closing in on its 1,000th subscriber - by clicking on the button below and making a small pledge

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Frank Gehry's nearly finished Serpentine Gallery (above) is apparently partly inspired by the striped walls of summer beach huts... Entrepreneur looks at mobile RV shedworking offices including naturally Chief Home Officer's... home offices are more popular than company offices in Germany... US News asks if it's harder to cope with personal problems in a home office... The New York Times has a slideshow of the MOMA prefab exhibition... nbc4.com say Washington is the top place to telework... We love this Green Man shed art from L'Ombre de mon Ombre...The Baklava Shed Coalition has been shedspotting again...John from Secrets of Shed Building has put together a sketch of this year's Shed of the Year...

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The Green Workplace reports on flexible 4-day weeks being introduced in Utah... check out a shedworking primer in the new edition of the slick WHY (Work Home You) magazine... Line of Site have a great new competition to design a Northern Lights observatory... Enterprise Nation has some interior design tips... Shedworld has something for the weekend... Gecko Yurts (above) look rather fetching... Chief Home Officer discusses compressed work weeks... Emma Jones, currently quadripartite in her locality, gives her top 10 tips about setting up a home office... Kits and Mortar is embarking on an ambitious magazine review programme... Web Worker Daily ponders coworking vs noworking... Shedblog has been dicing with death... there's a fantastic blog dedicated to Hut 33... Shedman has launched not one but two blogs this week. Blimey... today is your last chance to vote for your Shed of the Year... help to support Shedworking by clicking on the button below and making a small pledge

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The Washington Post says new legislation would make it easier for home businesses in the US to deduct home office expenses by offering a $1,500 standard deduction to eligible taxpayers... Judit Bellostes looks at a lovely observation deck in Pinohuacho (above)... The Soft House (below) uses curtains to harvest solar energy - is this the new green look for garden offices in 2009?...Kits and Mortar enjoy a 360 degree tour of the awardwinning Black Sheep House... Elspeth Thompson's converted railway carriage is coming along very nicely indeed (below)...Enteprise Nation thinks homeworkers need to drink more tea... The Green Workplace wonders how the workplace of the future will look... Computer Weekly warns RSI incidence is rising because of mobile working... Shed Style has been talking about sheds on the Martha Stewart Show... Chief Home Officer is celebrating National Work @ Home Father’s Day... Voting for Shed of the Year is in full swing...

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Web Worker Daily looks at the new working from home trend - going out... Home Office Warrior looks at homeworking budgeting and other top tips... Trendhunter likes these mobile tentworking solutions from Hannibal USA (above)... Tiny House Blog focuses on the little cob cabin (below) from Cobworks......The Daily Telegraph looks at Virginia Woolf's room of her own... Treehugger likes the look of flexible green office space for all... Chief Home Officer has some views and blues... Crusader's mosaic garden shed build (below) is in the running for this year's National Shed Week Photograph of the Year which you can enter here...... This container art looks marvellously shedlike from Treehugger...

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The deadline for entry to this year's Shed of the Year competition has been extended to 8 June (voting starts on 9 June)... Put your home business on the Enterprise Nation map (Shedworking's there already)... Dwell blog has a great roundup of prefab backhouses... Shed and Shelter's Structure of the Month is a great tentworking structure from Exclusive Tents (above)... HomeWorker magazine is almost ready to hit the streets... Trendhunter focuses on an eco laptop pillow (below)...Home Office Warrior is talking about making friends... Chief Home Officer looks at misperceptions about a home office dad... Bookshelf continues to highlight some great bookshelves and bookcases... The Christian Science Monitor reports on how bambook is helping China rebuild post-quake...

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World Shelter's U-Dome (above) is attracting lots of attention at the Milan Triennale (lots more photos at designboom)... Chief Home Officer catalogues his friends and discusses the cult(ure) of the homeworker... Home Office Warrior has some twittering advice... Jetson Green highlights the awardwinning Abōd (below), designed as a low cost and high quality home in a box, but equally a shedworking structure in a box...A star at this year's Chelsea Flower Show was Real Life by Brett (below) designed by Geoffry Whiten, a beautiful retreat inspired by George Bernard Shaw's rotating writing hut (I know, I know, I missed another one...)And another was Midori No Tobira - The Green Door, built mainly out of moss (below)...Go and hear Enterprise Nation's girl of the moment Emma Jones speak at Waterstones on May 28 in London... and don't forget to go and share your shed...

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Cally Creates has certainly found this week's most unusual shedlike structure (above)... Shedblog focuses on a great DIY shed tutorial by Dan McGrath... Chief Home Officer has 10 Ways Your Wardrobe Says You Work From A Home Office (I particularly empathise with 5 and 10)... materialicious has started an ongoing look at construction materials, starting with Redi-Footing... bobvila looks at how to green your home office... TractorByNet, the world's largest tractor community, includes this dirt floor, open sides, low budget project (below)...... see what's on at the Shed And A Half Gallery

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Archinect looks at a tremendously thin live-work shedworkingish structure (photo by Luc Roymans)...Shed Style has been out on the road promoting her marvellous new book including a stop at Hill Country Haven owned by Steven and Sylvia Williams (below).Surviving the Workday is a blog devoted to news, notes, & tips about spirituality and religion in the workplace...materialicious enjoys the Lily Pad Cabin...Kits and Mortar has been having a fine old time at the Grand Designs Live show...Office Snapshots announces the winner of its depressing office competition... The new issue of WHY magazine looks at eco-homeworkers... DutchNews say the Dutch want more flexible working hours... Shedblog looks at another £70,000 beach hut and spotlights blue sheds... Treehugger looks at XXS Swedish flatpack homes from Next House(below)...Is the vertical house on Bldgblog really a shed on stilts?... Metropolis looks at pocket pads...Ettore Sottsass' flying carpet armchair (below), perfect for lounge lizard shedworking, is showcased by Friedman Benda

Around the shedworld (updated)

Enterprise Nation has a nice new facelift... The Office in The Garden suggests how to beat the credit crunch... Superclubs has a good suggestion for hardworking homeworkers... Offbeathomes is chatting about blogworking spaces... Dwell blog wonders if the dome is making a comeback... Bldgblog looks at the architecture of ascent... Workology is wondering how hard homeworkers work... Shedblog features the Scouthouse (pictured above) designed around the windows... Treehugger's Wayback Machine revisits a trailer which turns into a house and highlights a telecommuting Radiohead... materialicious focuses on a spectacular double-cantilever barn (pictured below)...Chief Home Officer has some tips for small shedlike atmospheres... The Independent reports on the school pottery teacher who turned a fortune with garden-shed forgeries...
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I've updated the post with a comment on the barn above from regular Shedworking reader Bill Dockery who writes:

"This barn is only a couple of dozen miles from my home. It's in the Cades Cove region of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and is maintained as a museum specimen by the NPS. The cantilever barn form is native to East Tennessee, and there remain dozens of these structures across the landscape of middle East East Tennessee. Some are a hundred years old or more. A friend of mine, the late Marian Moffett, published a major study on them."

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Chief Home Officeroffers 10 signs which show you're shedworking too much... Home Office Warrior has got the shedworking bug... The Independent explains why we love trees/wood... Dwell blog points out that prefab is a must at all design gatherings... The Guardian shows how you can mix homeworking with caring... Shedblog points to more beach hut madness and goes all Spice Girls on us... Does the glassbox count as a garden office?... materialicious is all spruced up (and likes boathouses)... HomeWorker is making rainbows...this might not be the best way to apply for planning permission for your shed, however frustrating the process is... bytestart has a nice little introduction to working from a garden office... National Shed Week is coming soon including the photo competition (entry pictured above)...

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Shane from Boyzone showed off his shed/aircraft hanger on Celebrity Mr and Mrs... Essential Keystrokes asks if you have a backup shedworking location... Web Worker Daily wants to know what the 21st century workplace looks like... materialicious reports on friggebod and civil rights... HomeWorker reviews Spare Room Start Up... Chief Home Officer likes English breakfast tea... If you have a private island, Private Island Living magazine (yes, really) has the modular housing information for you... Dwell blog likes the vertical patio (pictured above), a shedlike atmosphere without a roof or walls but with hot tub option from Picque... Treehugger identifies a very small homeworking space... Shedblog is back (hooray!) and highlights the marvellous shed performer, Fin (below)...

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Materialicious points to the sale of the Steam Punk Treehouse (pictured)... Web Worker Daily wonders why your boss doesn't want you to shedwork...Boing Boing looks at a Haunted Mansion home office...Seattle Post Intelligencer reports on a treehouse eviction... Dwell blog asks if it is the year of the shed?... my deco shows how to make your shedworking atmosphere greener... Jeffrey Landers has an intriguing new book out The Home Office From Hell Cure which promises to Transform Your Underperforming, Time-Sucking Homebased Business into a Runaway Success In Just 100 Days!...Blue Fox Garden is building a Funky Shed (pictured below)...Enterprise Nation is having a makeover... Bookshelf is doing nicely...

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Home Office Warrior has compiled his list of dealing with home office distraction and the first one is a corker... Chief Home Officer is doing some mobile summer shedworking... Shed of the Year judge Sarah Beeny talks exclusively to Shedblog about sheds... lifehack suggests ways of greening your home office... small office australia is worth looking at if you live in Australia and have a small office...The Times looks at mobile shedworking and the new dotcom boom... Shedblog highlights Patti Smith's visit to Dylan Thomas' shed... The Good Human enjoys a holiday yurting (pictured above)...materialicious is coming to the end of its makeover... Paige Cuccuro looks at writers' caves...

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When will we see the first cardboard garden offices, asks Treehugger?... The Independent meets the pioneers who are living off-grid... Inhabitat wonders when we'll be painting solar panels onto our sheds... So does Swansea University... Home Office Warrior is after tips for dealing with home office distractions... OneSmallProject is inspired by shedlike living conditions in the working class neighbourhoods of the world... James Glave answers some infrequently asked questions about his Eco-Shed (pictured above)... Here's the place to go for A Quiet Sit Down...The Daily Telegraph has lots of ideas for improving your house in the garden... Stu's Shed is talking about a possible shed expansion... Where is Roberg finds a shed with a view... Judit Bellostes likes the look of the glass and steel of Café Bravo (pictured below)...

Around the Easter shedworld

The Telework Journal blog has a good roundup of homeworking news... Veg Plotting has a bird problem... Chief Home Officer is in exercise mood and also suggests how to avoid isolation... A Nice Green Leaf highlights the Spider Plant's attractions for shedworkers... Adventures In Home Working asks/predicts if 2009 is the year of desktop video conferencing?... Pete Connolly brightens up his garden office... Dwell blog looks at nice partitions for your shed... Will Plantware ever grow a shed?... My Urban Garden Deco Guide enjoys some outdoor saunas, hammams and spa cabins... Dr Kathryn Ferry tells all about beach huts at Shedblog... and here's a little something (pictured above) for your Easter delight...

Around the Shedworld

The Daily Telegraph asks if we can build sheds anywhere... Shedblog highlights the flatpack prefab delights of Doctor Who's Tardis (pictured above)... Tiny House Blog takes a Tumbleweed Tiny House tour and particularly enjoys Jay's vardo (pictured below)...bldgblog looks at graphic architecture... Home Office Warrior reports on home office distractions and how to beat them... materialicious likes the look of Marcel Breuer’s Wolfson Trailer House and separate artist’s studio which is up for sale (pictured below)...Cleve West reports on Joe Swift's shed for his new Gardener's World allotment slot...

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Shedblog reports on the BBC story about a shed with many lives (pictured left)... Enterprise Nation recommends an A-Z for the perfect home office... Melanie underlines the importance of taking back the shed... My Urban Deco Guide likes the look of outdoor stickers... Trendhunter's Gaze Boat is a floating shed isn't it? (pictured below)...... materialicious highlights a really nice group of photos on Flickr by rkeys23_2... National Downshifting Week is on the horizon... Chief Home Officer has some news for Floridians... Home Office Warrior rounds up sites featuring photos of home offices...

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Trendhunter shows that Kent public lavatories can be great shedlike atmospheres... The Coolhunter profiles Diane von Fürstenberg Studio’s new headquarters with its shedlike glass sphere on the roof (pictured above)... WebUrbanist catalogues various houseboats which would be great places for a little light shedworking... Treehugger's Wayback Machine landed near an inflatable tea house (pictured below)...Yanko Design takes a look at another emergency response unit... Modern Residential Design highlights Melling:Morse's seaside loft style living in Kennedy Bay, New Zealand... materialicious likes the green roof workshop and garage by Harrison Architects... Shedblog carries a nice interview with shed champion, fellow Shed of the Year judge and inventor Trevor Baylis... Polly LaBarre from Mavericks at Work has some very interesting things to say about working environements...

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Home Office Warrior has had a makeover... Career Waymark discusses home office noise... Chief Home Officer points out the taxing side of homeworking... materialicious highlights the library and studio for a writer from Andrew Berman (pictured above)... Enterprise Nation (which went all gooey for Valentine's Day) interviews home office design expert Neal Zimmerman... Shedblog goes pig-spotting... The Inverell Times reports on the ongoing success of Australia's Men's Sheds scheme...