Garden office interior design trends

The fine folk at Riverside Garden Rooms have picked out their top five garden room trends for 2022. Here's what they say about 'Minimalism and Spaciousness' (with an example of their models pictured above):

Taking the minimalist approach to garden room interior design brings a long list of benefits. Eliminating anything unnecessary from the picture frees up more space to be used in more practical ways. In addition, opting for the minimalist approach can lead to significant savings, as less is more.

Best of all, the minimalist approach to interior design never fails to look elegant and sophisticated. It’s a look that can be achieved by keeping furniture and fixtures to the bare minimum, while combining just one or two primary materials or colours. You can still add your own signature twists here and there, but the minimalist look is about limiting the presence of anything that does not need to be there.

They also look at Rounded Shapes and Curved Lines, Natural Materials and Textures, Cottage Style and Multifunctional Spaces. Well worth a browse. 

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Garden office with toilet and hot tub

Building your own garden office means you are at liberty to include whatever you like. Here's a good example, a 5m x 3m TG01 model from Garden Retreats for a new shedworker who not only wanted space for a couple of desks to focus on their home-based business, but also wanted a lavatory in the main build, and then added a hot tube right next to it. It also features 2.3m sliding doors and corner window. 

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Time running out to enter Shed of the Year 2020

There's only just over a fortnight to get your entries in for this year's Cuprinol Shed of the Year competition. Here's a flavour of the entries so far, the Mid Century Modshed owned by Stephanie Antrobus from Oldham, who created it as a refuge from the hurly burly of general life. Inspired by the mid-century modern design movement, it features a retro 1970s music centre, while all furniture and interior decor has been sourced from charity/antique shops and eBay. Pride of place goes to Stephanie’s collection of uranium glassware that gives off a green glow under light. 

As the cherished competition enters its 16th year, there is still time to enter one of seven categories which include the new lockdown category. Entries for this year’s competition close on April 19. 

“The entries for this year’s Cuprinol Shed Of The Year really exemplify the very best of British creativity and eccentricity," says competition founder and organiser, Uncle Wilco, "from creating fantasy lands, to cool refuges from modern life and a musical haven in the back garden.” 

Marianne Shillingford, Creative Director at Cuprinol, adds: “Recent years have been challenging for many of us, which is why it is so delightful to see such a flowering of creativity with this year’s competition. There’s still time to showcase your efforts, so don’t delay, enter now!” 

A public vote will crown the winner from each of the seven categories before a judging panel will name the overall Cuprinol Shed Of The Year 2022. Winners will be announced in August, with the champion awarded £1,000 prize money and £100 worth of Cuprinol products. Entries can be submitted at readersheds.co.uk

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Garden office is top of wish lists

When asked what home projects they’d invest in if money were no object, a third of people in a new survey by money.co.uk said a work studio or garden summer house, with almost a fifth going for a greenhouse. 

Its annual Renovation Nation Report found that the average UK homeowner has spent £1,473 on home renovations, furnishing and DIY projects over the last year, with one in five spending the majority of their home improvement money on their garden. Around 20% funded these works using money originally intended for holidays, with 7% using money originally intended to buy a car, and 5% previously intended for an engagement ring. Just over a quarter of the 2065 people asked said that spending less money on going out had given them more money to spend on their homes and over a fifth  cited wanting to increase the value of their home. In a separate study, British homeowners plan to spend a collective £217 billion on renovations and extensions over the next two years, according to Direct Line Home Insurance.

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Study Box

Bert's Boxes - part of the Bert & May design group - launched its Study Box model during the pandemic targeting very clearly those people looking for a garden office. Here's a fine example belonging to Anna Ferguson which replaced a rotting wooden hut at the bottom of their garden. It has plenty of reclaimed timber both on the interior and exterior, features black and white Bert & May tiles, and windows that match the Crittall-style windows at the back of the house. This is what Anna says about it:

"We use it mainly as a home office but have set it up with a large comfy sofa and drinks fridge full of beer and wine. Both me and my partner use it for work (we have to take turns as we both want to be in it!) and occasionally our greyhound joins us as he likes lying on the heated floor! If homeworking diminishes and as our little boy grows up, we can imagine it becoming a really cool hang out space for a teenager."

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Garden studio clad in Gendai Yakisugi

 

 

A black exterior on garden offices was once a major trend but now it has become fairly common. However there is black exterior and black exterior and one way of doing it is provided by this garden studio designed and built by Nakamoto Forestry Europe.  It's done using a 'Gendai Yakisugi' technique, charred and then brushed. Here's what they say about it:

"Gendai is our most popular Yakisugi (brushed Shou Sugi Ban) surface for exterior applications. A single pass through the brush machine knocks down the heavy soot layer and leaves a smooth, silky look. The burnt fibre crevasse shadows are subtle, and Gendai can either be installed without oil prefinish, with a traditional oil prefinish, or with a water-based oil prefinish depending on the appearance or colour desired."

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EcoShed 01

There are some remarkable garden office builds nowadays, but there is also something immensely satisfying in something with a strongly traditional ethos. This is EcoShed 01 from Shape Architecture, in a quite spot in Loris Gardens, Hammersmith, London. It's a beam and post build, clad it timber, and with a green sedum roof, what the architects describe as "merging into its garden setting and providing an oasis of calm". Inside the green roof ethos is continued, with plenty of secondhand/upcycled features including doors used as flooring, and a recycled sink. There's an equally impressive EcoShed 02 with a rubble roof also in Hammersmith which is well worth a look.

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