Garden Home Office

Work from home in style and away from the hubbubaloo of the house with this great selection of garden home offices.

Anyone who has a young family knows how difficult it can be to work from home; all that noise and interference. Who needs, "Daddy I need a poo" from your little angel when you´re on an important conference call with a key client across the pond? We´ve all been there.

It does not only happen to people with young families. Dogs, other family members, the cleaner, the door bell, the home phone to name but a few, all create impromptu distractions to the daily working life.

Not to mention those all too many temptations; GMTV, Jeremy Kyle, Loose Women and Working Lunch on the TV and of course the pantry, the fridge and the kitchen cupboards, full of glorious goodies to help get one through the day.

And how do you switch off at night?

The wife´s got a period drama on the TV or the husband´s watching the football and you´ve got that important report to be with the boss in just a few days. It´s so easy to slip off up to the office (which was once a useful bedroom or nook under the stairs) and throw the balance between working and having a life.

So what are your options?

1. Continue the way you are? Have the luxury of working from home but not working as productively as you would like throughout the day and being over worked during the evening time which should be better spent with your family or doing something you enjoy? And don´t forget that bedroom you´ve sold out rent free to your employer to enable you to carry out your daily tasks.

2. Travel to the office? Traffic jams, getting up really early, getting home really late, tiredness and full visibility by all and sundries on what you really get up to all day (which could be good or bad).

3. Get yourself a garden home office. A garden home office provides the best of both worlds; a place to go first thing in the morning, away from the daily distractions of domestic life, but also somewhere which can be shut up, locked down come 5:30pm and forgotten about until the following day.

It relinquishes some space within the home which can be better used for some other purpose and provides tranquillity to a working life by being surrounded by plants, trees, water features or whatever your choice of garden design.

Garden offices today are much more than a tarted up garden shed or summerhouse.

They have strong, secure frames and solid weatherproof roofs. Many have insulated walls and floors for warmth and even double glazing.

Power, heating and broadband can easily be connected and some provide provision for such fitments as standard.

Garden offices can come treated or untreated. Don´t be undeterred if it is the latter, this is usually because most people choose to treat it or paint it in a colour of their choice.

So if your garden has capacity for such a building, you have the ideal place and the distractions are becoming unbearable, consider a garden home office as a viable alternative.