Fusion shed trend continues

As we commented earlier in the year, the trend towards an integrated garden office and traditional storage shed is gathering pace. Here's a nice example from Roomworks, a garden room with an attached uninsulated shed at the rear of the building to provide essential storage in this urban garden in The Park area of Nottingham. Clad in red cedar, it is impossible to see where the room finishes and the shed starts and because the store does not require insulation or the same kind of internal finishes this provides a very cost effective solution.


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Heather Bestel - shedworking tip of the month

This month, Shedworking's Calm Editor Heather Bestel recommends 'Take the kids to work day':

Remember one of the major benefits of shedworking is having more time with the family. Now that the summer holidays are in full swing, taking the kids to work may be a realistic option. Let’s look at some pros and cons:

Enjoy the flexibility - Cancelled meeting? No problem! Gives you more time to play hide and seek with the kids. They are only young once, so relish your time together.

Be spontaneous - Impromptu picnics in the garden make for a very relaxed ‘lunch-hour’

Co-operation - The ease of organising play dates gives you some much needed work time.

Set Boundaries - Just be careful not to leave the shed office unattended. A client of mine’s son answered his business line with “Hello, daddy’s not here, he’s gone to have a poo!” Luckily it was his accountant.

More stressbusting advice from Heather at her site here.


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Tamara Drewe: sheds on screen

The film of Posy Simmonds's marvellous book Tamara Drewe was screened at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and as those of you who have read it will know, a garden office plays a key part in the film, owned by writer Nicholas Hardiment (played by Roger Allam - the film also stars Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper and Tamsin Grieg). Shedworking was honoured to help with some of the research for Hardiment's garden office about which Production Designer Alan Macdonald commented: "I felt that Nicholas Hardiment’s shed had to be the one place where he was able to express his personality. And ultimately it’s the embodiment of the mind of a fifteen‐year‐old boy, who’s never grown up. He’s a man who’s never grown up, a mummy’s boy.” Look out for it in a cinema near you.


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Atelier stand at Grand Designs in October

Atelier Garden Studios is going to have a stand at the Grand Designs Live NEC, Birmingham, October 8 – 10, in the Grand Gardens section stand number G410. Pictured above is their stand design featuring their C21 model. Who else is going?


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What is shedworking?

Regular readers will of course know all about shedworking but for those of you who are coming new to this site or to the concept, here I am talking a bit about what shedworking entails.


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Trend 15 and Trend 45 Log Cabin

Scandinavian Log Cabins Direct have several garden office possibilities among their models. At the smaller end of the scale is the Trend 15, above, 5m X 3m and built from pine logs sourced from sustainable forests in the far north of Sweden. It doesn't need a concrete slab foundation but sits on concrete posts embedded in the ground. Alternatively, take a look at the much large Trend 45, below, 9m x 5m, which has nice high corner windows.

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Temple: shedworking and then some...

There are home offices and then there are home offices. Here is Rookery Barns's bespoke design for a client called Temple. It bears comparison to many of their other substantial oak barn-style buildings but on a rather more spectacular scale: so as well as a first floor home office, it also takes in a large games and childrens’ room with its own bathroom, a double garage, log store, and workshop. Features include a rather fabulous vaulted ceiling and oak king post trusses to create an attractive and airy living space.


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