The official blog of Shed of the year (now in it's 20th year)
Garden steam rooms have grown in popularity as an accessible home wellness project, offering moist heat at temperatures between 40°C and 50°C in a dedicated outdoor structure. Unlike indoor installations, a garden building separates...
World Environment Day arrives on 5 June, giving us the perfect excuse to look at our favourite garden structures with fresh eyes. As sheddies, we spend hours tweaking, organising, and enjoying our outbuildings. But...
If you think plug-in solar is the limit for backyard green energy, it is time to think bigger. A brilliant new video by YouTuber MIKEBOLT showcases a massive upgrade to standard garden setups: a...
The unprecedented May heatwave has caught the country completely off guard. With provisional records completely smashed as Kew Gardens hit 35.1°C, the British public has taken to Google to figure out how to survive....
Over the past twenty years of Shed of the Year, Sheddies have stretched the definition of “shed” in just about every direction imaginable. But there’s one particular breed of entry that keeps drifting back...
For amateur astronomers across the United Kingdom, there is a familiar, recurring nightmare. You wait weeks for a clear, crisp, and cloudless night. When it finally arrives, you spend a freezing hour dragging heavy...
We’ve noticed a trend in our search traffic lately—a lot of our readers from the USA have been landing on our sister site while searching for “catios,” perhaps thinking our classic British garden sheds...
We have had a nice feature in Northern Life magazine. “The only magazine that bridges the gap between Lancashire and Yorkshire,” The much-loved Shed of the Year is celebrating its 20th anniversary – launching with...
A roundup of UK bank holiday weekend deals covers a range of home and garden products. Offers include discounts on sheds, garden furniture, solar banks, outdoor products, and home cover plans from retailers such...
We have a lot of expats from Germany reading the site and mostly looking at our sister site, but we also get a lot of Germans looking at the sheds so I would attempt...
