Friday Fancy: Earthquake House

It may be news to you that Comrie in Perthshire, Scotland is the UK’s earthquake capital. Also known as ‘Shaky Toun’, Comrie is built right on top of the Highland Boundary Fault and as a result, it is subject to more frequent tremors than anywhere else in the UK. It is also home to Europe's first Earthquake House, pictured above, built from stone in 1874 as the first purpose-built seismological monitoring observatory in the world. Sadly, the square shedlike building is not usually open to the public since shutting in 1988 although you can peer in through the windows and see elements of the old seismometer.

Photo courtesy MJ Richardson 

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Multi-purpose garden office

This attractive sunlit garden studio comes from Concave range from Modern Garden Rooms and measures  6m x 4m including toa storage area with a hidden cedar clad door. Designed and built for clients in Ashford, Kent, it replaced a previous shed at the bottom of the garden and is used as an office/work-space. Features include clear glazed french doors and windows to the front of the room.

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Artist’s garden studio

La Casita is artist Ingrid's dedicated garden office workspace for producing art, running workshops, and filming online classes. It's a SMART Suffolk Barn model measuring 2.6m x 3.7m with blue exterior cladding and underfloor heating (she often works barefoot). Ingrid and the studio recently appeared on the CBeebies programme What’s in Your Plant Pot? in which she teaches children how to paint sunflowers.

 

Friday Finery: Garden shed baubles

Shop early for Christmas with these glass baubles from Sarah Raven, £8.95 each or £15.95 for the complete set of 2.

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Starling Cycles: Born in a shed

Congratulations to Starling Cycles which is celebrating 10 years of operation since aerospace engineer Joe McEwan set out to produce mountain bike frames from his shed in Bristol (pictured above). 

"I had a busy aerospace job and two young kids," he writes, "and I loved escaping to my garden shed in the evenings to unwind. I went on a frame building course, I began hoovering up all the equipment I could find, kitting out the shed and making frames for my kids. It was a tiny, but lovely space and the business is named after the birds that hang around in the trees overhead."

Starling now operates from a dedicated workshop space as Joe explains in the excellent video below. 

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Booths now renting garden annexes

Booths Garden Studios has unveiled a new offering, the chance to rent a fully self-contained annexe (from four fixed layouts including an L-shaped one) including double bedroom, kitchen and bathroom in your garden. Prices start from £745 per month plus a one-off initial installation charge, and according to Booths no planning permission is needed.  Features include a dehumidifier and air conditioning as well as all electrical connections. More details here.

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Friday Finery: Meteor Vineyards Studio

A garden office in Napa Valley, California, by Cutler Anderson Architects, very pleasantly sited in an oak grove and linked via a trellised walk to the house. 

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