Showing posts with label around the shedworld. Show all posts
Showing posts with label around the shedworld. Show all posts

Friday, January 09, 2009

Around the shedworld

Enterprise Nation looks back at 2008's top 10 home business ideas... Pool and Patio is of interest to shedworkers with, er, a pool and/or a patio... shedworker and thinker Charles Leadbeater talks about the importance of homeworking in the current economic climate in the Daily Telegraph... the Chief Home Officer has a case of the Les Nessmans... Shedblog is loving HDR sheds... Shedworking is apparently a new extreme sport... Fool.co.uk points out homeworking is cheap... CIO has a very precise 17 pet telecommuting peeves... workalicious points out the ubiquitous Malcolm Gladwell also wrote interestingly about office space... Coffee Shop Office looks at psychoacousics for café commuters... Web Worker Daily asks why coworking is so popular in the north of England... Home Office Warrior looks at all the stuff you don't need for your home business... Cowley Shepherds Huts have this rather nice video (above top) of one such on the YouTube...

Friday, December 19, 2008

Around the shedworld

The Green Workplace suggests nonshedworkers' cars are making them fat... Shedblog reports on a Darwin Award Nominee who should have taken more care in his shed... Cabin Living have been busy in Blackpool... Tiny House Design has been busy designing a pallet house... Dwell blog is enjoying 100 years of Finnish Architects' Summer Homes... Trendhunter has gone podtastic... Moseley Exchange is a new co-working space in Birmingham... Michael Bywater at The Independent won't be getting any Luxury Shed Calendars next year... Enterprise Nation looks at broadband options for shedworkers... Home Office Warrior has a marvellous new guest blogger... Chief Home Officer talks about dealing with children in your home office... and yes, there is a Christmas Shed... and a Christmas Shed Christmas card (pictured above)... a fond farewell to Helene Hodge, fine friend and supporter of Shedworking (and much else) from the very beginning who sadly passed away earlier this week...

Friday, December 12, 2008

Around the shedworld

The Shedworking community at reddit is up to 19 members - more are very welcome... Enterprise Nation profiles fellow St Albans blogger and allround nice chap Ashley Davison and his marvellous new Fixdit site... Judit Bellostes likes the Mies-Meets-Granpré mobile (above)... Shedblog highlights some lovely winterish sheds... Tiny House Design reports back from a meeting of big yet tiny minds... BLDG BLOG looks at how swimming pools could become garden offices. Maybe...

Friday, December 05, 2008

Around the shedworld

Enterprise Nation reports on the first live-work properties launched in Bath... Shedworld features some nice shed art by Hanne Landin... Treehugger suggests ways to deal with the holiday home and garden office blues... workalicious has been trying out every single home office chair ever made so you don't have to... Shed & Shelter's featured structure of the month is one woman's answer to homelessness (pictured above)... Justin Draeger discusses managing a shedworking workforce... Judit Bellostes likes this pallet pavilions (below)Off Beat Homes enjoys a one-log shedlike atmosphere... Shedblog has written his shedlist for Santa... and so has Home Office Warrior... nose around Chief Home Officer's verticalised home office and look out for his labelmaker (below)...

Friday, November 28, 2008

Around the shedworld

mlive.com discusses the 40th anniversary of that failed shedlike atmosphere, the office cubicle... friend of Shedworking Emma Townshend is now blogging about gardens at a new address... Shedblog wonders what sort of lock you have on your shed... and points out that there's a TARDIS for sale in Wiltshire... Trendhunter has released the Small Space Lifestyle Trend Report... Treehugger is delighted by an eco-outhouse (pictured above)... web worker daily looks at how to avoid conflicts in a teleworking team... would you like to wait in this waiting room highlighted at BLDGBLOG below...Chief Home Officer advises credit crunch victims on working from home... Judit Bellostes focuses on the fertighaus, mobile house (below)...Home Office Warrior has the builders in... Enterprise Nation has the cartoonists in...

Friday, November 21, 2008

Around the shedworld

The Daily Telegraph suggests homeworking as the answer to victims of the credit crunch... TimeOut suggests the best free wi-fi spots in London... The new Tenbury Toilets design has been officially revealed (above)... Shed Style had a nice trip to see the Manhattan tree sheds... Chris Routledge shares his Ubuntu discovery on a day of enforced non-shedworking... Chuck Newton suggests more lawyers should consider shedworking... apparently My Daddy Works In His Undwerwear... Chief Home Officer sings the praises of teleconferencing and cloudworking... and has already planned his next shedworking holiday... and here's Fin (below) via Shedblog

Friday, November 14, 2008

Around the shedworld

The links at Tardis Garden Shed are a great place to look for building your own tardis garden shed... Vardo For Two is building an attractive vardo wagon... keep an eye on new blog Adventures in Teleworking... Teardrops & Tiny Travel Trailers forum has some marvellous photos of what it says on the tin especially at their Hall of Fame gallery...Home Office Warrior looks at how to move your garden office... Mary is back in her greened house office (and work is up and running again)... materialicious likes a Catskills 'treehouse'... Chief Home Officer is thinking about the home office and beyond... Shedblog is rock 'n' roll...

Friday, November 07, 2008

Around the shedworld

Enterprise Nation reports on research suggesting home (and the garden?) is the hub in the future of work... Chief Home Officer suggests how to avoid home and garden office isolation... and wonders what your home office sign is... workalicious has some nifty foldaway desks if space is tight for shedworking... Judit Bellostes admires the deep garden temporary pavilion (above)...Shedblog speaks to the Lutyens-inspired Granny Sue about her his-and-hers garden office/shed (below)...then treats us to photos of Shedblog HQ... and then puts its own brand Flip Mino video recorders on sale... Home Office Warrior answers the question, how do you get clients if you're working from a home office?...

Friday, October 31, 2008

Around the shedworld

Lowri Turner appears not to be a fan of sheds... Shedblog likes this caravan/shed (above) from the Just Sheds flickr group...Shed Style has been promoting Stylish Sheds on television (see below)... Kent at Tiny House Blog has been working on an interesting Tortoise Shell project (below)...Alyssa Gregory at Home Office Warrior looks back on five years as a homeworker... Father of Shedworking Henry David Thoreau is celebrated as a climatologist at Treehugger... Chief Home Officer has been cruiseworking... Enterprise Nation discusses the delights of virtual offices... workalicious has high hopes of the new Malcolm Gladwell book... archinect celebrates the small... Miko Coffey at Kits and Mortar looks at natural floor coverings... Musings from a Muddy Island continues to bring us lovely beach huts... GreenBiz considers telecommuting and the green office of the future... there are plenty of sheds and links at Gardening Gone Wild...

Friday, October 24, 2008

Around the shedworld

The New York Times suggests six ways to thrive as a shedworker in an economic downturn... Shedblog has been watching television programmes about sheds and planning permission... and featuring John Kingston's marvellous crystal garden office (above)... Treehugger points out that working from home makes more sense than ever... The Guardian wonders if there's poetry in architecture... CNN looks at what it's like to live in a house the size of a garden office...... the BBC say the world's shortest physics lectures will be delivered in a shed... Home Office Warrior offers some tips on successful homeworking... The Daily Mail talks to a lady who lives in a steel shed because the outside world is so awful... Chief Home Officer has not only voted, he's tidied his shelves... friend of Shedworking Elspeth Thompson has a lovely new book out which we urge you to buy...

Friday, October 17, 2008

Around the shedworld

Richard Banks likes some damn fine birdhouses... Juliet Doyle has been admiring the tops of beach huts...Here's the winner of the Grrreen Shed competition with Kevin McCloud... but I like the Love Shack much more...(pictured top) much more...Get your The Idler diary now... The Folly Fancier enjoys a park in a skip (shed coming soon?)... Shedblog's My Sheddie slot features Stan and Christine...MoCo Loco likes the kind of sheddish extension at 20 Grafton Crescent (below)...Enterprise Nation has 10 tech tips for shedworkers... and five must-have gadgets... workalicious profiles an artist's studio in Rhode Island... while materialicious likes the look of this sleeping cabin in Sweden...

Friday, October 10, 2008

Around the shedworld

Carey Roberson's studio (above) is lovely but roofless... The shedtastic Daily Telegraph has a 'win a shed' competition as part of Grrreen Shed Week... James Alexander-Sinclair likes the detailing on Nancy Bond's rustic garden shed (below)...Tiny House Design focuses on Dwellbox, pictured below...The Independent looks at the pod squad and how to live small... and so does the Daily Telegraph... Chief Home Office has a new regular Friday Strategies feature... Judit Bellostes investigates the spiegelzee pavilion (below)...Shedblog enjoys a pump shed restoration (below)...

Friday, October 03, 2008

Around the shedworld

Tiny House Design wants your opinion (and vote) on tiny houses (above) and whether to write a book... Enterprise Nation discusses what to wear when you're a shedworker... Is Shedblog a garden clown or a squirrel lovers forum? ... Chief Home Officer looks at the Nuance & Nuisance of Home Office Social Networking... materialicious is admiring Le Corbusier's Petit Cabanon shedlike atmosphere... workalicious has been looking at shelving... You could save $10,000 on a Metro Shed Cabin if you hurry (ask them for details from their email newsflash)... We should be putting up details about a new shepherd's hut for sale today on Shedworking... Vote for the shed design winner at Secrets of Shed Building...

Friday, September 26, 2008

Around the shedworld

Enterprise Nation knows a good mug when it sees one... materialicious enjoys beach cabins in Gotland (above)... The Guardian talks to novelist Patrick Barkham about his garden office in rural Rutland... Shedblog reports on another great pub shed... Workshop Shed has been to Ascot... Home Business Eye features some nice home offices... Unplgged take a behind the scenes look at the workplace of workalicious... Chief Home Officer is concerned about keeping brain and body fit... the newly refurbished Kits & Mortar is spreading the word about Be2Camp, an unconference where built environment meets virtual environment...

Friday, September 19, 2008

Around the shedworld

Tuvie likes the look of the uber shelter... The Independent examines shedlike atmospheres built of earth...Judit Bellostes casts an eye over the Berlin Box Cabin...Moulin de Clout has some lovely sheds from the Auvergne in its right hand column...Shedblog is turning into a bona fide shedworker...and also expanding the Just Sheds group on Flickr... This Old House talks to Tiny Texas Houses... Enterprise Nation has the lowdown on the numbers of freelancers in the UK... Home Office Warrior reveals whether people admit to being shedworkers... Chief Home Officer interviews Chuck Wilsker...

Friday, September 12, 2008

Around the shedworld

The Irish Times looks at the virtualisation of the desktop... iconeye highlights Jenny Nordquist's Platform Kiosk photographs... Forbes has suggestions for how to maximise your office on wheels... Small House Style is a site dedicated to everything smallhouseish... Juliet Doyle has been busy putting up some more lovely beach hut photos... The Independent reports on the plans to save Bletchley Park's huts... materialicious is enjoying a great pallet shed (pictured below)...CNN reports that bosses are wondering if homeworkers are really homeworking... and Shedblog poses the question, modern sheds (pictured top), good or not?

Friday, September 05, 2008

Around the Shedworld

Plankbridge have new images of recent shepherds' huts in their gallery (pictured above)... Chief Home Officer has a new chair... Judit Bellostes likes this mobile public library (pictured below)...Workshop Shed points to this remarkable shed in the air in London...The new issue of WorkHomeYou (WHY) is out... Tiny House Blog highlights the Tiny Pallet House... designboom focuses on watchhouse brinta...Shed Style has scooped Martha Stewart Living magazine... Home Office Warrior looks at 10 Must Have Twitter Tools for the online shedworker... workalicious takes a look at Mark Twain's garden office... and investigates SEI Investments half garden office, half office barn shedlike atmosphere...

Friday, July 25, 2008

Around the shedworld

The Wetherby News reports that brothers admit shed theft bid... Now there's an easy way to own a Free Spirit Sphere (and go on holiday) thanks to Ourplanet Retreats... the first UK Menshed operation is underway says the BBC... Enterprise Nation want to know if you ever shedwork in the pub... Reclaimed Home has some interesting notes about a green roof in Brooklyn... Kits and Mortar say insulation isn't everything... and is doing a great job getting to grips with codes and guidelines...readersheds.co.uk has a lively micro summerhouse (below) Treehugger on the whole likes the Foldoub trailer (below) which could be useful for on the road shedworking...... please help to support Shedworking - which is closing in on its 1,000th subscriber - by clicking on the button below and making a small pledge

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Friday, July 18, 2008

Around the shedworld

Emma Townshend enjoys a rather special pool pavilion...Chief Home Officer is now very much on the Home Office Highway (pictured above)... Shedworld is on the hunt for a shed full of insects... The Daily Telegraph reports on what looks increasingly like a credit crunch in the beach hut market... The New York Times takes an intelligent and detailed look at the MOMA prefab exhibition which includes Wes Jones' Primitive Hut (below)The Birmingham Mail suggests you rush out and buy a garden office right now... Gardener's World blogger James Alexander-Sinclair picks out his favourite gardening-related blogs including Shedworking... Friend of Shedworking Chief Home Officer interviews Friend of Shedworking Neal Zimmerman as a home office pioneer... Kits and Mortar is getting excited about the prospect of hemp and lime infill...Weburbanist picks seven tip top beach houses including this stone shedworking construct at Castel Meur... please help to support Shedworking - which is closing in on its 1,000th subscriber - by clicking on the button below and making a small pledge

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