Shedbases
If you are after a garden office on wheels but are not so keen on the shepherd's hut aesthetic, The shedbases Company could be right up your street. Based in Llanbrynmair in Wales, they are keen on sourcing local materials (Welsh roof slate, Welsh-made Chilli Billie Penguin stove, locally sourced timber, and sheep wool insulation).
It's first model - The Snowdon - can be moved around easily (though is not really for road towing - they are working on a new model called The Hafren which will be) comes on a steel chassis with twin axles, a mezzanine (one of the Shedbases staff's favorite features), veranda, decking, and the usual electrics. Optional extras include curtains, sofa bed, and kitchen. There's a nice gallery of pictures at their site here.
An interesting post by Paul Ockenden on Alphr on this question that crops up again and again in which he looks at various ways of getting your shedlike atmosphere digitally wired. Here's the scenario:
Frank's office is actually a posh shed, built from wood, but with insulated walls, double-glazed windows, lighting and heating. However, there’s no telephone line or internet connection. Frank has a fairly reliable broadband connection to his house, but this is more than 150ft away; he can’t pick up his home Wi-Fi network from the new office since his broadband router is (and must remain) on the opposite side of the house. Frank is going to run his business from this office (he’s a freelance project manager), so he wanted to know the best option for receiving a reliable data connection.
Shedbases, beach huts, and treehouses all have one, and now tiny houses are getting in on the 'of the year' competition fun. The Tiny House of the Year 2016 is run by USA tiny house guru Michael Janzen (entry deadline end of October) and like other similar competitions has a range of categories - best front door, best bathroom, best stairs, best-transforming furniture, best interior design, best exterior design, best kitchen, best ladder, best loft, best storage feature, best use of reclaimed materials - as well as an overall winner. Pictured above is one of the early entrants, Tina & Luke's Basecamp Tiny House.
If you want to add an extra element of the garden to your garden office, here's just the thing from the design studio Lula Dot. Here's what they say about it: "The user can rest their feet on real grass and get that garden feeling. The grass is easy to keep and will thrive indoors with a little water, light, and occasional trimming." It's made from steel pipes, natural fiber rope (which helps let the grass see the light) and comes with a fiberglass footrest covered in soil and grass.
Design show designjunction is up and running in London's King's Cross around Granary Square as part of the annual London Design Festival until Sunday. Look out for the eight bespoke red shedbases/tiny houses filled with, what it says here are, "immersive design concepts" which "play home to conceptual installations, high caliber creative projects and live activity from a host of luxury brands".
It's first model - The Snowdon - can be moved around easily (though is not really for road towing - they are working on a new model called The Hafren which will be) comes on a steel chassis with twin axles, a mezzanine (one of the Shedbases staff's favorite features), veranda, decking, and the usual electrics. Optional extras include curtains, sofa bed, and kitchen. There's a nice gallery of pictures at their site here.
An interesting post by Paul Ockenden on Alphr on this question that crops up again and again in which he looks at various ways of getting your shedlike atmosphere digitally wired. Here's the scenario:
Frank's office is actually a posh shed, built from wood, but with insulated walls, double-glazed windows, lighting and heating. However, there’s no telephone line or internet connection. Frank has a fairly reliable broadband connection to his house, but this is more than 150ft away; he can’t pick up his home Wi-Fi network from the new office since his broadband router is (and must remain) on the opposite side of the house. Frank is going to run his business from this office (he’s a freelance project manager), so he wanted to know the best option for receiving a reliable data connection.
If you want to add an extra element of the garden to your garden office, here's just the thing from the design studio Lula Dot. Here's what they say about it: "The user can rest their feet on real grass and get that garden feeling. The grass is easy to keep and will thrive indoors with a little water, light, and occasional trimming." It's made from steel pipes, natural fiber rope (which helps let the grass see the light) and comes with a fiberglass footrest covered in soil and grass.
Design show designjunction is up and running in London's King's Cross around Granary Square as part of the annual London Design Festival until Sunday. Look out for the eight bespoke red shedbases/tiny houses filled with, what it says here are, "immersive design concepts" which "play home to conceptual installations, high caliber creative projects and live activity from a host of luxury brands".
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