This week's Finery is the marvellously idyllic garden library/writing shed of novelist Ova Ceren who also runs the extremely popular BookTok and Instagram channels @excusemyreading where you can find lots more atmospheric images of the interior and exterior.
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It's never too late to get a garden office. Here's an example from Eden Garden Rooms of a bespoke 5.35m x 3.45m reading room-come-office with patio seating area outside for retired clients in Cobham, Surrey, to enjoy their delightful garden.
Built on the footprint of an old summerhouse that had seen better days, features include plent of desk and storage space, two floor to ceiling windows on the sides of a central set of French doors, a small letterbox window for additional light and ventilation, a slim panel heater and oak effect laminate flooring. The whole thing is clad in cedar with integrated spotlights on the canopy.
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The latest series of the BBC's Interior Design Masters series got underway last night with the 10 hopeful contestants charged with doing up their own beach huts in Mudeford (not the ludicrously expensive ones, just the normal variety). Plenty of interesting ideas for decorating your own shedlike atmosphere such as the one above which was the Shedworking team's favourite. Well worth a watch.
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We haven't had a good time lapse garden office build for quite some time so sit back and enjoy this (it has rather a nice soundtrack too) from Humble Home Reno:
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For this week's Finery, a detail from a Blackdown Shepherds Hut build called Feathers for writer Beth Kempton into which they added inspirational phrases such as the one on this window sill.
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A thing of beauty from ONO, a garden studio in California called Two-Fold because it's a marvellous mixture of ceramics workshop for an artist and Pilates studio.
It's actually an L-shape (more excellent photos by Ethan Gordon on ONO's site here) which wraps around mature trees in the home's courtyard, features include a wood shingled facade, large sliding glass doors, yellow powder-coated aluminum window frames, and a low wooden deck shaded by the roof.
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Booths Garden Studios is celebrating its 26th birthday (so half a dozen years older than Shedworking) with a Show Day on April 18 at which visitors will be able to take a close look at their zero maintenance models, as well as get some expert advice from the Booths team. The event runs 10am until 2pm at the Booths Garden Studios Showroom & Factory, 11 St Marks Road, Corby, NN18 8AN. For more details and to let them know you're coming (spaces are limited), contact them via the top link.
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