Green roof pioneer Nigel Dunnett dies at 63

The Shedworking team was sorry to hear of the death over the weekend of horticulturalist and writer Nigel Dunnett. We have featured several of Nigel's Chelsea Flower Show creations over the years, and reviewed his marvellous book Small Green Roofs which featured many garden offices and other shedlike atmospheres when it came out in 2011 from Timber Press (sadly it's now out of print but still available secondhand) with helpful practical 'how to' sections. The green roof movement and biodiversity was one of his passions, establishing the first trials of them in the UK, and writing what is 

We are sad to hear of the passing of Nigel Dunnett who was a key figure in UK Green Roof research and teaching, and wrote what is believed to be the first book in English on the subject, with Noel Kingsbury, Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls, also a Timber Press publication.

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Friday Finery: Garden library

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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Retirement garden study

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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Beach hut makeover on BBC

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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Garden office timelapse

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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Friday Finery: Writer's shepherd's hut garden office

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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Two-Fold Studio

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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