Although there are many ways of making your garden office feel exactly like home, we're all slightly constrained by the circumstances of our back gardens. In an interview with readingzone.com, Helen Peters talks about her excellent new book Anna at War and was also asked about her garden office wishlist...
Q: Can you describe your ideal writers' shed, and where it would be?
A: This is something I think about a lot! Whenever I visit a stately home with a beautiful summerhouse in the garden, I redecorate it in my imagination as my writing shed.
So my ideal writing shed wouldn't really be a shed at all, but a grand summerhouse with brick walls, tiled floors and a high ceiling. All along the front wall would be floor-to-ceiling French windows, and the other walls would be lined with books. I would have a big table facing the windows, and a fireplace in one wall, so I could keep cosy with a log fire in the winter.
The summerhouse would be in a garden full of flowers and fruit trees and singing birds, and all around the garden would be woods and hills. The garden would be walled on three sides, but at the front it would open out on to a lake. When I needed a break from writing, I would swim in the lake or walk in the woods and hills.
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