Bookshelf to be turned into a book

We're delighted to announce that Shedworking's sister site, Bookshelf, is to be turned into a book and published by Thames & Hudson. Dates are still to be confirmed but we will keep readers up to date with progress. Many thanks to all of you for visiting, suggesting and getting in touch over the last few years and I hope you will enjoy the book just as much.

Pictured above is Ezra writing the Law, frontispiece to the Codex Amiatinus and featured in the groundbreaking bookshelf book The Care of Books by John Willis Clark. In the background is a press (an early bookcase) with open doors. The picture was probably drawn in the middle of the sixth century AD.
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Group 8: interior shedworking

You need quite a big space to be able to do this, but this interior shedworking setup using recycled cargo containers by architects Group 8 for their own offices in Geneva is really quite special.
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Tax and your garden office

One of the most common questions we're asked is whether shedworkers can set the cost of their garden office build against tax. We've covered it before here and in the Shedworking book where we suggest that, basically, yes, you can, but our general advice is always to talk to your accountant/tax adviser first or even to ring the tax folk up themselves and ask their opinion. However it's always good to get more opinions on the subject and there's an interesting write-up at the Society of Virtual Assistants' site. Here's a snippet but please do read the whole thing:

The Taxman will treat the cost of the garden building as capital expenditure, as the item is expected to last for some years. You are only allowed to deduct the cost of capital expenditure from your profits for tax purposes when the item purchased qualifies for a so-called capital allowance.

All equipment that is used within the business qualifies for a capital allowance. But your garden office is not a piece of equipment, it is a structure in which the business operates, – at least for part of the time. So on the face of it you cannot deduct the cost of the garden building from your profits. This applies even if the building is theoretically moveable, such that it can be dismantled and reconstructed elsewhere if required.

If your business is VAT registered you can reclaim the VAT charged on the cost of acquiring and installing your garden building, on your quarterly VAT return.

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Shepherds' hut-like garden office

If you're after a shepherds' hut vibe but don't actually want any wheels on your garden office, take a look at Anglian Garden and Building Supplies' bespoke shepherds' hut model, built from Scandinavian Redwood and using traditional joinery methods. The whole thing is clad in 22mm finished size T&G cladding and uses a 50mm x 50mm framing to reduce the chance of warping. The curved roof truss system is made with 50mm x 100mm Redwood and shaped in the workshop for extra strength.
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(In)visible hut

Designed and built by Lab Zero, the (In)visible Hut, also known as Yeta, is so called because while it's a cabin for living and shedworking, it is also cunningly disguised as a pile of logs so that it will be inconspicuous in a rural setting. Although this is a prototype, it will be going into production soon and has already been used in Italy as the home for a sound installation exhibit. More details also at their Facebook page.
Via Treehugger

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Verve: husband and wife shedworkers

Husband and wife team Paul and Julia Hitchens run their brand design business Verve from a Surry garden office (which was bought in Holland five years ago). Talking to Sadie Nicholas in the Daily Express they say:

"The shed is a very creative space with lots of natural light... It cost about £10,000 which may sound like a lot of money but we’d have spent far more than that every year on renting a commercial office space. It has revolutionised our working lives. We can fit in our work around the school run and keep home and work separate. The shed is also a very creative space with lots of natural light and the big benefit to our clients is that we’re not passing on the cost of huge overheads."

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Garden office being built on instagram

We've covered several garden office builds on Twitter and Facebook so it's nice to see one on the intriguing new platform instagram, the pride and joy of Triston Wallace of Bridge Training which provides technical, creative, management, leadership training to the creative industries. If you're not yet on instagram then you can catch up with the build by following Triston on Twitter.
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