A really nice little roundup of nine of the most attractive garden offices and garden buildings on the market at the moment at Gardens Illustrated. Among them is the above which is a self-built one. Here's the information about it:
This garden studio was designed and built from scratch and it occupies
about a quarter of a courtyard garden. As well as providing me with
ample studio and shed space, it also features two concealed cupboards
positioned along the front face, which are crammed with garden tools and
logs.
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'Bertie' belonging to Jayne Eyres from Mersea is this year's winner of Hut of the Year organised by specialist insurers Love Your Hut (who insure beach huts, garden offices, shepherds' huts, and other shedlike atmospheres).
Jayne is co-owner of The Little Beach Hut Company which rents out three huts on Mersea Island, including the 60-year-old Bertie, Peggy and Kitty (a finalist in the 2017 incarnation of the award). Talking to the Daily Gazette, Jayne said: "For little Bertie to win this is a great privilege and honour. He was the first hut I bought about nine years ago back when you could buy beach huts for a reasonable price. Nobody wanted to buy him and he is now unrecognisable to the pictures you see today."
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Hertfordshire-based Bright Corner (indeed, just around the corner from Shedworking HQ) is the brainchild of Chloe Harrison who designs and produces sustainable LED lights made from FSC birch plywood from her garden office. Here's what she says about it:
"I love my creative garden hideaway, I can leave the house and forget about all the washing and cleaning and concentrate on my bussiness. I have split the space in two, one side is for Bright Corner, where I store, sand, prep and package up my lights and the other side is for my other passion, painting. I have a separate Instagram account for this, if you are interested @chloespaintings. I love my time in this space, I take up a cuppa, put on the radio, music or a podcast, turn on my fairy lights and instantly feel inspired."
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A garden office with an art deco twist on its exterior by Swift Garden Rooms to complement the owner's furnishings inside. You can see it in all its glory and listen to how it was built in the video below.
We talked about the fine work Huub have been doing earlier this year on Shedworking so are delighted to see this charming semi-treehouse version at its final stages in Dorchester. It features larch and slate shingles, aluminium doors and windows, and naturally a solar-power generating roof and is in among the trees on stilts.
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A rather lovely 'his and hers' garden office by Swift Garden Rooms for Jan and Caroline Harding after relocating to rural Cornwall to run their graphic design agency, Wetdog Creative (they went for Swift having seen their appearance on George Clarke's Amazing Spaces). Features including large windows to take advantage of the marvellous views and aluminium-framed doors/windows. The whole build took two weeks. So happy were they with the build that the relationship has continued very successfully after completion to the extent that Wetdog was recently part of Swift's rebranding.
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The Cork Studio is a remarkable garden office building made virtually all out of cork (largely bricks of recycled wine bottles) by the appropriately-named Studio Bark. It's so green that it can not only be recycled, it can be composted. The designers tested it to make sure it was fire and water resistant and indeed didn't even use any kind of slab foundation because it seemed redundant. They have gone to some pains to explain the process and their eco-friendly reasons behind the work on a special post here which is really worth reading. One particularly nice touch - the outer door handle is made from an old corkscrew.
Photos by Lenny Codd.
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