Garden office shingles

Lovely shingles made from Tricoya (a kind of MDF) by designer Tim Denton.

The garden office were working on now has its window frames and shingles.

A post shared by Tim Denton (@tim_denton) on Apr 21, 2018 at 11:29am PDT

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Crane Garden Buildings at Chelsea Flower Show

Congratulations to Crane Garden Buildings who for the fifth year running (and at their 12th year of exhibiting) have won a 5 Star Tradestand Award at Chelsea Flower Show, pictured above. Allocated a larger plot than in previous years, they showcased the company's Pavilion Garden Room and matching Superior Shed. Both buildings had cedar shingle tiles and Georgian windows. They were painted in Farrow & Ball’s Old White, with the doors, windows, and veranda of the Garden Room in Pointing

The stand was put together with help from Bressingham Gardens and Robin Tacchi Plants who supplied the plants, and LLD Slate who provided the slate signs. -------------------------------------------------------

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INSITU free furniture offer

INSITU Garden Offices has a good offer on at the moment - they will supply free furniture installed in any of their garden offices with an internal footprint over 15 square metres this summer.

"As far as I am aware we are the only high specification garden office supplier that offers such a bespoke interior 'design and fit' package using such a wide range of high quality furniture products including the latest ergonomically-designed mesh back task chairs for the professional user," said Roy Boone, Sales Director. "The furniture choice is extensive with many different contemporary ranges, styles, colours and finishes available, designed and manufactured by one of Italys’  leading manufacturers, Quadrifoglio."

Interior space planning, furniture advice and rendered 3D visuals of the design layouts proposed are included in the package. Pictured above are examples of a current project where the client has not yet chosen her preferred option and which will come with bi-folding doors (below is a typical fully fitted installation).

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1.6 million people work from home

Around 1.6 million employees regularly worked from garden offices and other places in their home last year, according to new analysis from the TUC. The analysis shows that 1 in 16 of the UK workforce worked from home in 2017 – unchanged from the year before, but up from 1 in 20 in 2005.

The report indicates that:

* 4 out of 10 homeworkers are women

*16-19 years olds are least likely to home work (2%) and over 60s most likely (11%).

* The South West has the highest percentage of employees working from home (9%), and Northern Ireland the lowest (2%).

* Agriculture has the biggest share of employees (23%), followed by the information and communication sector, where nearly one in five works from home (18%)

* Managers are most likely to work from home (12%) followed by ‘Associate Professionals’ (9%) such as architects, engineers and designers.

“Lots of people would like to work from home but have not been given the chance by their boss," said TUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady. "That’s a shame, because it can benefit employers as well as workers.Homeworking can improve productivity and it can stop the loss of experienced staff when they need more flexibility for family responsibilities. It has wider benefits too, like less traffic and pollution, more accessible work for disabled people, and keeping premises costs down.

“Many bosses already recognise that homeworking can make staff happier and more effective. But other employers need to catch up. Trade unions can help negotiate home working policies that work positively for both employers and staff. The government can help by investing in broadband infrastructure so that every worker can get a high-speed connection at home. And we encourage businesses and public services to include homeworking in job design and recruitment.”
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Blue Forest's treehouse at Chelsea Flower Show

One of the shedlike highlights of this year's Chelsea Flower Show is this marvellous treehouse from Blue Forest.  The two-storey build has Cedar cladding but most appealingly also an 11m stainless steel slide (see Philip Schofield come down it in the video below). Other details include a window seat and what Blue Forest describe as a 'Narnia wardrobe' which is the entrance to the slide. If you're going today, it's on Main Avenue and the natural woodland planting scheme is designed by Architectural Plants.

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A post shared by Phillip Schofield (@schofe) on May 21, 2018 at 1:11pm PDT

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New Plankbridge shepherd's hut at Chelsea Flower Show

Plankbridge will be causing a stir at RHS Chelsea Flower Show this week with this rather splendid new model, their 'Ten plus 4' which comes with its new copper finish, fumed English oak, railings, and covered deck. Inside, it's decorated with Shadow White and Vardo from Farrow and Ball. The official Shedworking verdict is that it's a lovely job and while it's a new model, it harks back strongly to the early days of shepherds' huts. And as a garden office, I doubt very much if anyone would turn one of these down. Good job!

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Haynes Shed Manual: How to create roof tiles part 2 (video)

The second part of the video which we mentioned here on Thursday, part of the work going into our Haynes Shed Manual (out about this time next year). Here's what John says about it:

An 'all action' video. No talking but have added sub-titles. This is the first part of the process for creating the 'raw' shakes. The next step is similar as each sixteenth is split into two shakes, that have parallel edges and a small triangular piece of waste wood. So, in theory, I should get 32 shakes per log. However, with knots and spiral grain, I get anywhere between 10 and 30 in practice. Once I get the 'rough' shakes I then need to shape them. That is a subject for a follow-on video.

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