Home office in the basement

If you don't have room for a garden office, or your attic's too titchy, another option is the cellar or basement. The Manchester-based Basement Living Group is a group of specialist contractors who are experts in basement waterproofing and building. As Rob Newman, managing director of PRS, one of the founding members of the new company, said: "There are hundreds of thousands of properties throughout the UK that have basement spaces that are not used to their full potential. For those owners who want more and better accommodation, the cost of converting a basement is usually a fraction of that involved in moving to larger premises." There are plenty of pictures of good basement conversions on the site including, naturally, home offices (pictured).