Acoustic garden studio with store

 

 

Another example of a garden office construction with additional storage room space, this one designed and built by Garden Spaces. It's 6.5m x 4.45m on the outside, and 2.5m high. The client was after an acoustic studio with acoustic porch and and special design features include:

• store room
• surface mounted fittings
• thermowood cladding treated with natural oil woodstain (colour Ebony)
  
• sedum roof
• acoustic porch - single aluminium doors with acoustic glazing and wooden FD30 acoustic door with acoustic drop down seal, threshold seal and perimeter seal 
• air conditioning 
• acoustic vent 
• laminate wood floor (colour Harvest oak)
  

The acoustic treament was obviously a key factor with this one. So the walls have fasteners with incorporated rubber decouplers and metal furring strips, acoustic mineral wool, acoustic plasterboard and acoustic rubber membrane, then acoustic plasterboard again.

 

In terms of the floor, there's 3-layer acoustic underlay mat and then laminate flooring, and perimeter flanking band. And then up on the ceiling you have acoustic rubber membrane, resilient bars, and acoustic plasterboard.

Garden office holiday

If you like your garden office so much you can't bear to be parted from it when you go on holiday, consider this possibility in Somerset spotted on airbnb. Here's the listing detail:

The garden studio is self-contained with all facilities away from the main house; and well insulated with double glazed windows. It has a cozy bathroom (large shower, toilet and wash basin), open plan kitchenette (kettle, toaster,coffee machine & fridge), king sized bed with memory foam mattress and sitting area. Through large French doors is a semi private courtyard with seating.

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Bloomsbury writing retreat

We've featured Viriginia Woolf's original room her own regularly on Shedworking before, but while you can't have the real thing at Monk's House, you can have the next best thing which is the Bloomsbury writing retreat from Malvern Garden Buildings. Designed as a 14ft wide x 8ft deep garden room in Dove Grey, you can actually bespoke size and colour depending on your requirements. 

Design features include:

• Barnstyle cladding
• 19mm pressure treated floor
• 4 pair opening windows, 1 pair in each gable and 1 pair either side of doors
• Double doors centre front
• Single glazed throughout
• Painted external finish
• Tongue and groove matchboard lining and insulation to walls and ceiling
• Whitewashed lining and floor
• Cedar shingle roof
• Black ironmongery
• Installation

Of course Woolf's original also features in my recent book Rooms of Their Own, illustrated by James Oses.

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Bat Wing Studio

 

Regular readers of Shedworking will know that the staff are very partial to an underground garden office. This build from architect Tom Parsons not only fulfils that delight but also offers a wonderful roofline. Here's how he describes it:

Completed garden office with a lightweight birch plywood ‘gull wing’ / ‘bat wing’ roof. Exposed concrete walls and floor dug into the hillside. Charred cladding and steel doors. A delight to flex some creativity, design and deliver with a brilliant team and visionary client.

Lots more photos at the link above.

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Dylan Thomas's writing shed on Bargain Hunt

The venerable BBC daytime treat Bargain Hunt has headed to Carmarthenshire for its latest episode where presenter Christina Trevanion nipped off to Laugharne to vist the writing shed/garage of Dylan Thomas. You can watch the whole thing on the BBC's iplayer thingy here but the garden office action kicks off in earnest at the 26:50 mark or see the clip below.

Wouldn’t have missed it for the world. Such an interesting segment on Dylan Thomas’ writing shed in Carmarthenshire. Beautifully, eloquently and professionally presented by Christina Trevanion as usual.

— RDykes (@taffytopaz) October 19, 2022

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The rise and rise of beach hut prices

 

Although £440,000 is a lot for a beach hut, at least this one is really nice. As so often nowadays, it's at Mudeford beach in Dorset and on with Denisons (which has several others at similar eyewatering prices). The price tag though hasn't put people off and the estate agent reported dozens of people on the waiting list to get a chance to snap it up. Features include solar panels, double glazing, wooden panelling, a fully fitted kitchen, room to sleep eight people, and views across to the Isle of Wight, but there's no lavatory.

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Unusual garden office squirrel problem

Does anyone else have the same problem?

I am FED UP with squirrels breaking into my garden office, pooing all over my desk and then drowning themselves in my loo. THIRD time it's happened - and this time there's two of the b*ggers. Well I s'pose this is what they call country living...

— The Man in Seat 61 (@seatsixtyone) October 16, 2022