Teenager's study room

Here's a good 'before and after' of the latest build by Tiny House UK in Middlesex. It's a 3.5mx 4m garden cabin based on a their tiny house house on wheels design and will  be used as a teenager's study room squeezed in to the bottom of a garden surrounded by other garden structures in neighbouring gardens. -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Student shedworking

These shedlike atmospheres by Tengbom are for students to both work and live in. They're only 10 square metres and a prototype is currently on show at the Virserum Art Museum in Småland, Sweden. Tengbom describe it as "a student unit for students which is affordable, environmental-friendly and smart both in terms of design and choice of materials". While this is very definitely designed for students, the firm does admit that it would also make a good office.

In 2014, 22 units will be built and ready for students to move into, each with a comfortable sleeping-loft, kitchen, bathroom and a small garden with a patio. More details and images at Gizmag.

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Allan Ahlberg: shedworker

The bestselling author of Each Peach Pear Plum, Peepo! and dozens of other marvellous children's books is a longstanding supporter of shedworking, as he explains in the BBC video above."I've always had a shed" he reveals.

"I wake up before 6am, listen to the radio for a bit and then take a cup of coffee down to the shed, which is where I write," he explained in a nice article for The Daily Telegraph at the weekend. "At that time of day there is no one around. At about lunchtime my motor runs out. I have a can of soup and at 1pm I go to sleep – I mean actually get undressed and go to bed. I might do a bit more in the afternoon. I’m like a dripping tap. I don’t do very much at one time but I do it seven days a week so it is constant. This is the fourth shed I have owned. I line the walls with bits of work that children have sent me, photographs of my family, cartoons and clippings from the newspaper. They’re all yellowed now, and a snail has started chewing its way up from the bottom. But I love being surrounded by this cosy panorama as I work."

The garden office does sound cosy. A feature in the Guardian a couple of years ago revealed that "covering every inch of the pin-boarded walls is the history of 35 years of a writing life that has produced more than 140 books for children, from picture books to poetry to stories. There are notes, drawings, family photos, ancient toys that have been brought to life in stories, layouts, shelves of proofs. "If I get stuck for an answer, I can just start reading the walls." -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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The loggiest garden office cabin ever: video

We mentioned musician and comedian Hans Liberg's fantastic shedworking log cabin a couple of years ago designed by Piet Hein Eek. But we've just come across this jolly video of it which shows us the inside... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Christian Payne's shedworking commute

We've featured Christian several times before on Shedworking and his garden office has even won a coveted Shedworking Award. Here's one of his Vines extolling the virtues of a shedlike commute. -----------------------------------------------------

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Shepherds' huts open day

After last year’s Shepherd’s Hut Open Days as part of the national heritage open day scheme, the fine folk at Historic Shepherdshuts are throwing open their doors again in Barford (where they are based). Local villagers have formed a history group and four open buildings and 16 sites will be taking part in this year’s Heritage Festival event which runs September 13-15. A special Huttist’s day will be held on September 15, with artisans, restorers, hut insurers, a Huttist Pop-up Big Breakfast and shepherd hut devotees, all gathering together. For more information see www.shepherdhuts.co.uk or www.barfordhistory.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Gareth Hughes: shedworker

London-based web designer Gareth Hughes was kind enough to send in some photos of his garden office (as well as some very kind words about the Shedworking book and blog).
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