Sportskabin

Matt James in the February issue of Real Homes magazine singled out a Sportskabin from Garden2office as an example of a project to add space and value to your home. Here's what he said in general about shedworking:

"From just a few thousand pounds you can have an insulated outdoor room with telephone, electricity and double-glazing, which should add value to your house and can double up as a guest room. Before you buy one, get the go ahead from your local planning department. Consider where to position it: south-facing rooms get very hot in summer; north-facing buildings won’t suffer from glare. Ideally, pick a model that blends into your garden’s surroundings."

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The World's Finest Sheds

I've written a piece about sheds and shedworking for the Winter issue of the excellent "part App, part magazine, all inspiration" title intoGardens (which they've titled The World's Finest Sheds), the brainchild of lots of famous gardening folk including longtime friend of Shedworking, James Alexander-Sinclair. If you've not come across it before, this is how they describe it: "We have video, we have audio, snappy writing and beautiful photographs. We have gardens from around the world, plants to drool over and buy, fruit and vegetables to order, practical help and a bit of cookery: all in the most splendid detail." If you like gardens, you will definitely like it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Bird shedworking

Screenwriter Adam Brown has not only sent in a lovely photo of his writing den but another of the bird box version of the shed that his father-in-law made for him this Christmas.  The bird box can be seen hanging next to the bigger shed in the main garden photo. Should there be a birdshed category in the 2013 Shed of the Year competition?
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First shedworking Vine?

This @mod_105 room erects in 2 hours vine.co/v/bJd2hE0DFAx

— mod105 (@mod_105) January 29, 2013

Vine is the new kid on the Twitter block, giving users the chance to record very short snippets of video in a loop. We think this is the first shedworkingesque one (which happily also features bookshelves) but if you know of others, please let us know. -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Arctic Cabins at Alnwick Gardens (video)

The Duchess of Northumberland gives the Arctic Cabins folk a large pat on the back for their work with her at her awardwinning gardens. -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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The Queen Emma Galleon

Modelled on HMS Victory and HMS Warrior with a top deck, rigging and naturally the Union Flag (plus the Skull and Cross Bones...) and owned by Clare Kapma. It also has a hammock. Lots more photos at readersheds.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------
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Welsh Men's Sheds Association launches

Following the succes of similar schemes in Australia and more recently Ireland as reported here on Shedworking, The Welsh Men's Sheds Association has launched in Carmarthen with branches expected soon in Llanelli and Llandeilo with a series of seminars plannedaround Wales to promote the initiative in Swansea, Cardiff and Bangor. I still only have sketchy details but will let you know more information when I get hold of it, though there is some more at the snappily-titled Wales Alliance for Citizen Directed Support. ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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