A recent BBC News feature has highlighted the growing trend for both employees and the self-employed to work from home, and most often in their own garden office. This has been furthered by the recession and redundancy over recent years, making working from home a more attractive prospect, according to Shedworker Alex Johnson, who also says that the stigma of working from a shed is wearing off, and people are more ready to admit to colleagues and co-workers that they are working from a garden office. View the BBC News feature here.

An Office in your Garden

So how exactly is working from a home office beneficial?

If you are a freelance writer, author or illustrator, or if you run your own business, then working from home has a number of advantages than commuting to an office:

• If you run your own business, then you can save greatly on not renting out office space, and simply running your business from your own garden office. For example, our top of the range Home Office Executive Plus Log Cabin as a 6m x 5m garden building with 44mm double tongue and groove walls costs £3,199.95 – could you possibly rent an office for that price?


• Furthermore, in eschewing rented office space in favour of a garden office, you are not tied into any long term tenancy agreements – even if you change your mind, then you can still enjoy your garden office building with your family and for social occasions


• A garden office is also a great way to cut down on your daily commute – spend more time with your family before and after work, save money on transport, and boast about the fact that you are reducing your carbon footprint by leaving the car on the drive


• If you use a garden room to work from home, then the running costs of your home office can be tax deductible, such as utility bills and maintenance costs.

The best way to keep your family life separate from your work life when you work from home is to put some physical distance between the two, and working from a garden office can be an effective way of doing this.

Our range of log cabins includes our Home Office Log Cabins, which are designed with a garden office in mind. For small business owners and freelance writers, authors and illustrators, our Home Office Log Cabins offer spacious garden rooms with large windows to allow plenty of natural light to help you work from home. Why not check out our Home Office Executive Log Cabins or Home Office Director Log Cabins, and see if they are more cost effective than renting office space for a year.