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Your garden needn't be enormous for you to include an outdoor room. For best results, place it so that it can nestle between trees, or train climbers around it, and ensure that its construction allows for lots of natural daylight. It needs to be well insulated if you're using it all year round, but make sure that its doors can be opened fully so that you can enjoy the warmer weather if we ever have it. My wife and I are expecting our second child in September, Since we moved into our house four years ago I have had to move my office from a spare room to the dining room! Now we are expecting a new arrival I had no option but to review my working situation.

I am an IT Consultant and Website Designer and as such have a lot of paperwork and need access to it easily. My options were to rent an office which was just too expensive to think about and as I spend a portion of my time on-site with clients so I wanted something that would not feel like a waste of money.

We have a decent-sized garden with two outhouses that I have already worked on for storage purposes and utility room, this left a tatty old shed base that was ready to fall down. We decided on the area that the shed was taking up, taking it down and then to the local skips was the easy part.




Once the shed base was down, it was then a case of preparing the area, shuttering it off and getting on the phone to ask a mate to deliver the concrete. Once the base was ready I got on to order the cabin. We got it up one rainy weekend in April, insulated the floor and boarded. I have been working here now for a couple of weeks now and am very chuffed with our handy work. Now it is just a case of keeping the keys away from the rest of the family otherwise I reckon I will be looking for a new office!

A new compact 'micro pod' aimed at providing office accommodation for individual shed base workers has been launched by pod space. Ben Lord from pod space says the pod comes with data/phone points, stainless steel sockets and low energy spotlights, underfloor heating, high-security energy efficient Scandinavian door, and windows as well as tip-top insulation.

Round is the word in 2020 for garden offices and there's a fabulous post at Tiny House Blog discussing the possibilities of using converted wine barrels as garden offices and listing various suppliers in the UK including Hot Stuff whose work is pictured above and Superior Cooperage. At the moment, these companies are mainly looking at the sauna market but they'd be very, very popular shedworking atmospheres, with the added advantage that the barrel shape allows condensation to run down the walls and drain away. As they're mainly saunas, they're pretty room, certainly large enough for chairs and a desk.


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