The Welsh Den Company

If you are after a garden office on wheels but are not so keen on the shepherd's hut aesthetic, The Welsh Den Company could be right up your street. Based in Llanbrynmair in Wales, they are keen on sourcing local materials (Welsh roof slate, Welsh-made Chilli Billie Penguin stove, locally sourced timber and sheep wool insulation).

It's first model - The Snowdon - can be moved around easily (though is not really for road towing - they are working on a new model called The Hafren which will be) comes on a steel chassis with twin axles, a mezzanine (one of the Shedworking staff's favourite features), veranda, decking and the usual electrics. Optional extras include curtains, sofa bed and kitchen. There's a nice gallery of pictures at their site here.

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How to get broadband to a garden office

An interesting post by Paul Ockenden on Alphr on this question that crops up again and again in which he looks at various ways of getting your shedlike atmosphere digitally wired. Here's the scenario:

Frank's office is actually a posh shed, built from wood, but with insulated walls, double-glazed windows, lighting and heating. However, there’s no telephone line or internet connection. Frank has a fairly reliable broadband connection to his house, but this is more than 150ft away; he can’t pick up his home Wi-Fi network from the new office, since his broadband router is (and must remain) on the opposite side of the house. Frank is going to run his business from this office (he’s a freelance project manager), so he wanted to know the best option for receiving a reliable data connection.

If this sounds like you, it's well worth a browse.
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Tiny House of the Year

Sheds, beach huts, and treehouses all have one, and now tiny houses are getting in on the 'of the year' competition fun. The Tiny House of the Year 2016 is run by USA tiny house guru Michael Janzen (entry deadline end of October) and like other similar competitions has a range of categories - best front door, best bathroom, best stairs, best transforming furniture, best interior design, best exterior design, best kitchen, best ladder, best loft, best storage feature, best use of reclaimed materials -  as well as an overall winner. Pictured above is one of the early entrants, Tina & Luke's Basecamp Tiny House.

Click the link above for full details of how to enter, but essentially it's open to all adults who have a tiny house less than 500 square feet in size.

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Garden office chair

If you want to add an extra element of garden to your garden office, here's just the thing from design studio Lula Dot. Here's what they say about it: "The user can rest their feet on real grass and get that garden feeling. The grass is easy to keep and will thrive indoors with a little water, light and occasional trimming." It's made from steel pipes, natural fibre rope (which helps let the grass see the light) and comes with a fibreglass footrest covered in soil and grass.

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Exclusive Toolshed Colouring Book sample

We previewed the shed colouring book and journal emerging from Lee John Phillips’ Shed Project back in July (details here) so we're delighted to offer you an exclusive download from the book which is published this week, courtesy of the nice publisher folk at Laurence King.

To get your free download simply click this link (or the image) to go to a Scribd page and download from there. Happy colouring!

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designjunction sheds at London Design Festival

Design show designjunction is up and running in London's King's Cross around Granary Square as part of the annual London Design Festival until Sunday. Look out for the eight bespoke red sheds/tiny houses filled with, what it says here are, "immersive design concepts" which "play home to conceptual installations, high caliber creative projects and live activity from a host of luxury brands".

Look out too in the same area for the SmartHouzz from Houzz, a bright green pod that showcases ways to maximise small space living through smart design, storage ideas and technology, including in small shedlike office spaces.
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Property Search Group: Shedworkers

A nice piece in Welsh News Extra about Property Search Group which has left its previous HQ on an industrial estate and gone down the garden office route in a model designed by Rubicon Garden Rooms. As a result, the owners Julian and Kerry Lee say they are now able to hire more staff. According to Julian:

“It’s great. We’ve got the perfect, self-contained space with everything we need. We can now open our French doors and have lunch on the patio in a lovely established garden, which is something most people would love. We had an office on a local business park, but being able to move into our own premises here has been a wise business move.”

The office is actually an L-shaped structure, just under is 30 square metres, including a kitchen and lavatory as well as the large open plan office.

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