Why you should replace your garage / shed with a Garden Office

For many of us, the world of work has changed dramatically over the past few years and the kitchen table has taken on dual roles of place to eat and place to do business. 

Gone are the days of battling stop-start traffic to and from work or finding the last seat on the train next to someone playing music from their phone speakers just to spend 8 hours in an office with a quick break to eat a sandwich.

And while it is truly life changing to have the extra time before and after work not consumed by commuting, sharing an often noisy space at home while you’re trying to craft a blog or take a zoom call isn’t ideal. 

Why your shed or garage isn’t a great place to work

So what have people been doing? They’ve unspooled the long extension cord and wandered down the garden to the shed and, after evicting as many spiders as possible (there are always more spiders), set up a little workstation next to the paint cans and camping gas. 

Those without a shed may have tried working from the garage and faced a similar arachnid problem, plus your ethereal video colleagues, some of whom you’ve never actually met in person, don't want to look at your rusty bikes on the wall and bottles of turps that we all inexplicably have on our garage shelves. 

But for a short time, this works. Peace and quiet, your own space and the spiders usually keep themselves to themselves. But then it rains and you notice the decade old shed roof felt is leaking or the wind howls around your poorly sealed garage door. Then the temperature drops and you realise that a single skin of timber isn’t going to insulate you and your spider buddies from the cold. 

Defeated, you pick up your laptop and head back into the house and start Googling “convert garage to office” and “replace shed with garden office” which is how you landed on this page.

The working from home solution

Outside In Garden Rooms build beautiful bespoke fully insulated pods that nestle into your garden providing a flexible, all-year-round space to work or play in.

With your own garden office, you can zoom call your way to business success without doing a Professor Robert Kelly impression. You’re not limited to creating a wonderful office oasis space either, turn your pod into a gym, cinema room, yoga studio, art room, music room or cosy book hideaway … whatever you need an extra room for, an Outside In Garden Room can be it. 

Take a look at our case studies to see how people just like you are enjoying the extra space and flexibility an Outside In Garden Room provides. 

If you live within Glasgow, Edinburgh or central Scotland we can provide an accurate no-obligation quote. To do this we will arrange a free site visit to measure and inspect your garden space along with getting a better understanding of what your requirements for the project are. 

Types of Garden Room 

Whether you opt for the UNO, DUO or DUO+ you’ll be able to enjoy a bespoke environment tailored to suit your outside space and your particular needs. No mere shed can match the specs of our garden rooms which are built using 70mm insulation boards throughout, wrapped in a fire retardant insulating membrane, use superior locks on the doors and windows and are clad in responsibly sourced FSC timber. Can your shed claim that? Oh and we offer a 20-year guarantee on our roofs which means no cracks, leaks or drooping. Something else the typical shed can’t match.

The take down!

Many people ask if we handle the whole process of removing old asbestos roofed garages and making the area far more acceptable and the answer is absolutely yes!  Working in partnership with our landscape chums at Hope Groundworks, we provide a start-to-finish process that covers exactly that and we have a host of examples to show you. 

Garage mid take down! 

The end result, is a garden room with store and new drive with matching fence.

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Get in touch

So up your work-from-home game and contact us today about designing your perfect garden room. You won’t regret replacing your shed with a multi-use weather-sealed stunning office pod and you’ll no longer have to blur your background on calls.