Inspired by this Financial Times article on “the joys of working out of a backyard hideaway,” TreeHugger recently put together a roundup of home-office garden sheds. Here are a few we could spend a little time working in (such as the modular House Arc, above). Read more
The UK-designed Archipod looks like it dropped off a rather large tree and landed in your garden. The stand-alone home office is a cedar shingled timber pod with plastered interior walls and a semicircular desk area. There’s also a large skylight and plenty of room for storage.
Looking at Archipod’s website I feel they must have been reading Lifework -here’s a piece from their front page – “The way people work is changing – the cost and inconvenience of commuting to work everyday is increasing, whereas advances in computer and networking technology are making the viability of working from home a realistic alternative to travelling to an office.” Yep. We’d noticed that too. And now we’ve got a lovely timber pod to work from! I’ve contacted the company to see if they ship to the US. Via Mother Nature Network’s Matt Hickman.