Domeworking

"Here is my earthen dome," writes Shedworking reader, graphic designer and natural builder Jeffrey Hart. "While it was not initially designed as an office, the desk setup does allow for a great quiet place to sit and work! It was built for $200 over 2 months in Oregon. The majority of materials were either reclaimed or were sourced from site." You can see more photos and an excellent write-up of the build at Jeffrey's site where you can take a look at his other projects - take a look in particular at the shedlike Playhouse.

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Garden office, beach hut and shepherd's hut insurance

If you're looking for general shedlike atmosphere insurance Love Your Hut is a new name on the market and worth investigating since their policies are deliberately aimed at owners of beach huts, chalets, shepherd’s huts and shedworkers. Their policy is all risks, including fire, subsidence and sea inundation, plus your liability as a shedowner and for clerical-related business use, as well as contents. If you are a Member of a Beach Hut Owners’ Association, you also get a premium discount? Lots more details at their website.
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Boulton & Paul summerhouse: advice please

Reader John Boulton (no relation) is on the lookout for help regarding his Boulton & Paul summerhouse, an example of which is pictured. "We have a dilapidated one in Essex which about 60 years ago I recall being pushed round in as a child," he writes. "It was moved to another part of the garden probably 45 years ago, but seems to be without any underfloor mechanism for revolving. I tried metal detecting where it used to be but just a few rusty bits of bolt emerged. I would be interested in resurrecting it properly, as it has most of the original cedar panels, sliding windows and door etc. Would anyone who has worked on one of these please be able to advise on what the revolving mechanism would have looked like? Or in fact any specifications." Please leave your comments below or contact me directly and I'll put you in touch with John. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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A day in the life of shedworker Joanne Harris

Author and shedworker Joanne Harris (see our exclusive interview with her here) has written a nice piece about her 'normal' working day. Here's a snippet:

"When it was built, two years ago, the shed was bare and monastic. I didn’t have any internet - I wanted to avoid distractions. Since then, I’ve accumulated: books, an armchair; an enormous tree-root; candles; a kettle; some artwork; a kite; a Chinese parasol and many, many tea-mugs. Turns out I thrive on distractions. I also have the internet, partly because I was tired of having to run to the house to check my e-mails and messages."

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Stephen Waddington's shedworking commute

We've featured shedworker and PR supremo Stephen Waddington on Shedworking before and he spreads the word about garden offices regularly on Twitter where indeed he has posted this inspirationally pleasant Vine of his commute to work. ----------------------------------------------------------

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Joe Hemming: shedworker

The excellent Bible of British Taste has a nice feature on the marvellous Penzance-based letter cutter and carver Joe Hemming who they describe as a "part-time shed-dweller" as well as being a shedworker. "Next to his workshops across the fields near St. Buryan, there is a living cabin for summer use and another bed-sitting hut for guests," they write. Lots more atmospheric photographs on their site.

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New look garden office roof

"In liaison with Aled at Tata-Steel in Chester, we have developed a completely new kind of roof that is fully compliant with permitted development and offers a real alternative to the typical flat roof cedar box," writes Richard Grace of  Garden Structures. "The building in the photos is a garden office recently installed by us in Northampton for a software engineer and his wife who is a teacher.

"The roof is curved and tilting only 1 degree to rear. It is insulated with a GSL manufactured curved structural insulated panel containing 100mm of celotex insulation. The total thickness of the roof is 145mm and expected no maintenance lifespan of over 30 years. At the top of the curve the roof measures 2.5m from the ground and is fully compliant with pd. Our calculations show that the canteleverel canopy shown here at 400mm could extend to 500mm without further support. The lowest two points of the redwood tgv wooden ceiling (part of the sip) is supported by a visible curved wooden truss is 2100mm (ok for all but the very tallest). The internal walls are finished in plasterboard (dry lined) with redwood window reveals.

"This office has a particularly high insulation spec featuring a new kind of window developed by us this year with help from Bernard of Illingworth Ingham in Manchester and is clad in 20mm rough sawn random wany edge siberian larch. All structural timber was supplied by Colin Myers Widnes and Chester.

"We are currently working on a 6.5m open span of the same system in a pd building with 30sqm footprint close to central london for use as a therapy studio for an established practice. Part of the client consideration was the number of surrounding properties looking down on the roof."
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