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Alex over at shedworking has just released issue 15 of his shed magazine.
I assume it means the shed rotates on it’s based to get the best sunlight or for hiding from the wife? or Iam I barking up the wrong wossname..
>>>> Shed of the year update - I am still waiting on the final count from the judges - so if you can hold out for a little bit longer. cheers
They also give a good mention to my good self (the internet’s most famous sheddie!!!) and of course Shed of the Year 2008.
so come on you have until Friday 4th to vote for this years top sheds.
‘Another exciting year for sheddies - this competition is a beautiful example of how the British are not just skilled craftsmen but have great imaginations not to mention excellent senses of humour’
Sarah Beeny
The beauty of a garden office is that it combines the popular yearning for a pastoral ideal with the practicalities of technological development and guards our privacy in the way that an open-plan office – even if you call it something exciting like a ‘den’ or a ‘hive’ – never can. .
Alex from shedworking.co.uk
It’s fantastic that beach huts are getting in on the competition this year. Unlike sheddies, beach hut owners often have to work within restrictions about size and colour yet they still manage to create some wonderfully individual seaside hideaways.’ Dr Kathryn Ferry
‘My shed is much more than a place to store the garden tools.’ - Tony : Shed of the year 2007 winner
Share your shed for “Shed of the Year 2008″ and win £500 worth of prizes.
The race is on to win the coveted Shed of the Year title which will be held this summer as part of the second National Shed Week.
We are very pleased to announce that one of the UK’s leading online garden building companies, Garden Buildings Directwill be the official sponsor and shed partner for this year’s Shed Week and will be providing the grand prize for the Shed of the Year Competition.
The grand prize will total £500 and the winner will be able to choose products from Garden Buildings Direct or products from one of their sister websites selling extensive ranges of garden furniture, outdoor toys, fitness equipment and BBQ’s.
Organised by the internationally famous readersheds.co.uk, National Shed Week (which runs from July 7 until July 13 2008) will celebrate one of the cornerstones of British culture, the not so humble Garden Shed.
Can this year’s sheddies beat the wonderful and unique sheds that we showcased in the inaugural Shed Week last year, including the amazing Shed of the Year 2007 which was a Roman Temple built by Tony Rogers?
This year’s judges are property guru Sarah Beeny, wind-up radio inventor Trevor Baylis, Professor of beach huts Kathryn Ferry and Shedworking expert Alex Johnson, Eco-architect Lloyd Alter and to give his sheddies eye view last years winner Tony Rogers.
Sheddies are still welcome to “Share their Sheds” and can enter their buildings on the website ready for the judging in Late June.
About the sponsor
Garden Buildings Direct is part of a number of websites owned by Kybotech Ltd started in 2000, however the business family tree goes back to 1878. Charles & William Walton are the 5th generation of the Walton family connected with the manufacturing of garden buildings and garden related products, based in Sutton-on-Trent the centre for garden buildings since 1927.
They are an online retailer who successfully operate a family of home, garden and leisure retail brands:
Their main product lines go under the brand name of BillyOh.com with ranges of Wooden Sheds, Plastic Garden Sheds, Metal Garden Sheds, Summerhouses, Metal Greenhouses, Wooden Garden Storage, Plastic Garden Storage, Gazebos, Home Offices, Shed Security, Shed Electrics and Arbours as well as garden furniture and BBQ’s.
About National Shed Week
This is the second year we have run the competition which pits wooden sheds against TARDIS, garden offices against beach huts in a battle royal to win the title of Shed of the Year 2008.
After the success of last year’s Shed Week and the great reaction we got from press and the public, Sarah Beeny has agreed to become a judge again, along with inventor and entrepreneur Trevor Baylis.
They are joined by Shedworking expert Alex Johnson, Kathryn Ferry who is a beach hut expert and Treehugger and Eco-housing guru Lloyd Alter.
To get access to hires images and more information on Shed week go to our press section
Well you can follow Shedworking icon and Shed of the year judge Alex, who will be not only working from his shed, but posting and twittering all day.
To celebrate, Shedworking will be repeating last year’s highly popular experiment, giving readers regular updates throughout the day of exactly what’s going on at Shedworking HQ.
now if I could just get my boss to allow me to work from the shed, that would be great maybe after the potential success of this year Shed of the year, I could be doing it in 2009
Consider the state of my special keyboard at work, I think working from the shed would do me the world of good.
Of course we wish him and Mrs Shedworking well in their continued expansion of the Shedworking empire, very kind of him, but i think it was a hint.!.to advertised the readersheds babygrows (the babygrow is in the post Alex for mini shedworking 3!!!!)
of course if you are not blessed in the shed expansion department you can always get a dog tshirt for your shed based canine
FYI no dog was made to look unhappy to wear this shirt, hes just miserable, because hes not digging under the shed.
My dream is to have a garden office. I love the idea of leaving home behind and “commuting” down the garden to work … then, at the end of a long, productive day, closing the office door on all things serious. For anyone working from home, a garden office offers a pleasant discipline and routine, and a chance to escape the hustle and bustle of the household.
The also mention livingroofs and give these great tips which would apply to a shed as well.
Practical tips
# Planning permission isn’t required for a garden office if: its overall height doesn’t exceed 4 metres for a pitched roof and 3.5m for a flat roof; the total floor area doesn’t exceed 30 sq m; the structure is sited at least 5m from the house; and it’s not in a conservation area.
# Think about the placement and size of your office from your neighbours’ perspective and speak to them about what you are planning. Most neighbours are accommodating if you keep them informed.
# Don’t neglect security: your garden office may need to be alarmed. Also, check carefully with your insurance company: the office’s contents must be covered for all eventualities.
# If you’d like to take your garden office with you when you move, discuss this with your supplier as some models can be built accordingly.
# Make sure you have sufficient lighting in the form of good general illumination (preferably on a dimmer switch) and appropriate task lighting.
Alex from shedworking.co.uk one of our Shed of the year judges, has kindly answered my questions, be warned he uses big words ;), which I assume means that if you are a shedworker then your vocabulary increases.
Q) What one bit of advice would you give to potential shed workers.
A) Spend time looking around for the right kind of garden office. There are so many on the market with so many different features (do you want a green roof? a mezzanine level? a curved wall? a roof with a cupola? eco-friendly insulation? folding doors?) that there’s no point jumping straight in without doing some research first, especially since you’ll probably be paying £10,000+ for your lovely new shedlike atmosphere.
Q) Are Garden offices are the new “middle class sheds” or something else?
A) I hope not. I certainly don’t see ownership of a garden office as a class badge, rather as a democratic symbol of the general working population’s desire to push through a revolution in alternative workplaces, although it must be said that garden offices do tend to be owned by those in typically middle-class professions: but I do think they’re more of an indication that as a nation we’re becoming fed up of needless presenteeism in centralised offices and want something more human and more flexible as a daily workspace.
Q) What the most useful thing to have in your shedworking environment,apart from the shed.
A) Personally, a MacBook Pro laptop. I literally couldn’t work without it (even though the iSight function is currently up the spout).
Q) If your shed was on fire, what one thing would you save
A) Depending on where the fire broke out, my copy of Richard Ford’s The Handbook for Travellers in Spain (1845) which is on the back wall. If that’s where the fire broke out, then the box of old photos under my desk (front wall).
Q) What would be your ultimate bolthole/shed-away-from-it-all and where would it be?
A) I’d love something underground with tunnels and an underground swimming pool and snooker room, nothing too fancy. Under my present shed, or failing that, inland Spain, about an hour’s drive east of Madrid in the Alcarria region.
Q) How happy are you, working from your shed!
A) Very happy. I’m surrounded by my favourite books, photos of family and friends, with a pleasant view of the garden and within easy striking distance of a fridge. I don’t think I could go back to a ‘traditional’ office now - I’ve been deinstitutionalised.
Thanks to Alex and remember to pre order his book
Now we have long time friend of readersheds.co.uk and all round working from his shed guy, Alex.
“Alex Johnson is a journalist and the editor of The Shed magazine and Shedworking (www.shedworking.co.uk), the daily updated site devoted to the lifestyles of people who work in garden offices, sheds and shedlike atmospheres. His book -Â - will be published by The Friday Project in July 2008.”
Alex will be not only be a judge he will be taking a good look at the garden offices category, so if you have a great garden office then please share it and make sure you put the category as “Garden Office”
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