Friday Finery: Curved garden office

Today's Finery is this beautifully rounded build from the appropriately named Curve Garden Rooms. incorporating its curved fibreglass insulated roof design.

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Garden office construction timeline guide

There's a brief but useful guide for those considering going down the shedworking route about how long it takes to get your garden office set up on the Smart Modular Buildings blog. Here's a snippet:

• Design & Consultation: one to two weeks for layout, approvals, and finalising options
• Groundworks: one to three days depending on site conditions
• Construction: one to two weeks for prefabs, up to three to four weeks for bespoke builds
• Final Touches: two to five days for electrics, painting, flooring, etc
  

You can read the rest of it here.

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Garden office with kitchen and bathroom

A hugely impressive recent build from InFrame Garden Rooms in Ham, Surrey, a 24sqm garden office designed for a client who works from home and wanted a dedicated, self-contained workspace. It’s a single open-plan room fully kitted out with two sets of panoramic aluminium bifolds (a 5-leaf and a 3-leaf) opening onto the garden from adjacent sides, and a small kitchenette for making tea and coffee, plus a lavatory and shower room.

The idea was to create a professional space that feels completely separate from the main house which is ideal for welcoming the client's personal assistatn without the need to come inside the main home.

The structure is built on a steel core frame with screw pile foundations and finished in Millboard cladding.

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Tiger launches new garden building show site at Tong Garden Centre

Woodlands Home & Garden Group has launched its latest Tiger garden building show site at Tong Garden Centre, near Bradford, marking the 18th location in the retailer’s growing national network (double the number it had at the start of 2025).

The new display site is the fourth Tiger outlet in Yorkshire, and features selection of premium garden buildings on display, including sheds, summerhouses, and log cabins, including the new 70mm Obsidian insulated log cabin with extra thick timber walls and insulated roof and floor. Stuart Davison, Commercial Director at Woodlands said:
 "As a Yorkshire company through and through, this is a fantastic moment for us and for customers across the region."

The new site at Tong Garden Centre, Tong Ln, Bradford BD4 0RY, is open 10.30am - 3pm Monday to Saturday, and 11am - 3pm on Sundays. Tiger has also launched a virtual showroom at https://www.tigersheds.com/modular/showroom/

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Shedworking holidays

In an unusual fit of humanity, we've given the interns a few days off so Shedworking HQ will be a bit quiet over the next few days while we enjoy some annual leave.

The Philosophy of Sheds

An item of good news. It's been a while since I've written a book about sheds (Haynes Shed Manual, co-authored with John Coupe in 2019), and even longer than my first one on the subject (Shedworking: The Alternative Workplace Revolution, 2010), so I'm delighted to announced that in 2026 the trilogy will be complete with The Philosophy of Sheds.

It will be published by the British Library in spring next year as part of its Philosophy of... series, what it describes as "a thought-provoking range of books which take a deep dive into niche topics" and features subjects such as curry, puddings, cider, cheese, tatoos, beards, and Christmas. "With their gorgeous colourful covers," continues the British Library, "the titles are great for gifting, or those curious to learn more." I hope you'll enjoy it.  

Beach hut prices jump by up to 100% in some locations

Research by Regency Living suggests that the average price of a beach hut has soared by as much as 100% in some seaside towns in recent years. 

According to their figures, in West Sussex,the going rate for a beach hut currently stands at £33,044. This marks an increase of 102.1% over three years. Meanwhile, in Dorset the average beach hut price is £102,451 having increased by 66.3% since 2022. In Essex, the price tag is £45,878, followed by Kent (£43,661), Hampshire (£32,655), and East Sussex (£30,784).

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