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Garden Offices Buyers Guide

 

Home Offices, Studios and Lodges

Working from home, in your garden is the respectable way of getting through your working day, professionally and efficiently. This guide to Garden Offices is geared to helping you all the way from inspiration to installation.

Your working life may never be the same again!

Put aside any preconceived ideas of slumming it in a shed or locking yourself away in a spare room. Garden Offices, Studios and Lodges have come a long way since working from home meant you couldn't afford an office. Those days are long gone - Garden offices are 'in'.

A thatched roof garden office or a weathered beach hut garden studio. Timber cladded outbuildings and victorian style pavillions are all within your reach.

Your clients cannot fail to be impressed when they walk through your garden to your new office.

The choice of garden offices, studios and lodges is massive, varying on what you really need and what creature comforts you desire.

All good garden offices, lodges and studios are insulated - again the degree of insulation varies on the materials used and of course the cost of your new garden workspace.

The finish of your garden study largely depends upon what you want your office to look like. This isn't as strange as it might sound, you'll soon find out that there is a vast choice of appearances.

You may want your garden office to look like a log cabin or even a traditional timber outbuilding, whilst glass fibre allows almost any finish to be replicated.

Your new garden studio will blend into its natural surroundings yet show professionalism and success. Receiving visitors will be without the stigma attached to working from your kitchen table,

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Garden offices, Garden studios, Garden Lodges, Garden Studies, Garden Retreats ...come in all shapes and sizes. There are three important aspects in selecting your garden workspace; purpose, interior and exterior.

Whatever you wish to call your garden office, studio, study, or lodge ..it is your workspace and will become personal to you. ....whatever you call your garden workroom ... it aint a shed!

If you call it a shed, it will be teated like a shed and instead of being a respectable place of work, it will be a dumping ground for anything that won't go in the home. Set your rules and stick to them!

So, lets not get into the politics of whether it is an office, studio, study or lodge. What we want are four walls, floor and ceiling, all fully insulated. We need to keep the heating economical and maintain the garden office heat. Then we need electrics to power the lighting and electric sockets.

Perhaps two or more rooms within, even a mini kitecken and toilet

Ergonomics is another new word that dictates how we sit and operate our equpment. Healh and safety rules encompass ergonomics and we cannot afford to dismiss them.

If your employer requests that you work from home, they have a duty of care to ensure that your workspace is not only adequate but reaches the many and various rules and regulations.

The exterior is a matter of choice and taste, together with bringing your garden office in line with its surroundings.

If it is only you ... the patio commuter or garden ofice space that is viewed by visitors and clients, you have to make the decision how you display your garden office.