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Design, Trends March 5, 2012

Take It Outside: Home-Office Garden Sheds

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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).


Constructed predominantly from timber, the Archipod is specifically designed to “complement a garden landscape, be efficient, ergonomic, and unusual.”


The Cube Project was originally conceived as an eco-friendly living space home for one person (it contains a kitchen, bathroom, and sleeping area). But at just 97-square feet of floor area, it could also serve as an easy home-office option.


Scott Lewis Landscape Architecture helped convert this former shed into an ivy-covered painting studio in a San Francisco garden.


Made from locally-sourced timber and glass and clocking in at 160-square feet of space, Spacecraft was inspired by a 19th-century Japanese house at the Huntington Gardens in Pasadena, CA, and the wooden lifeguard towers on the beaches of Malibu.

See more of this article at TreeHugger. Want more reasons to work outside? Check out the new Herman Miller Collection Outdoor.

Photos: TreeHugger

Comments (2)

I would love one of these, for my single food venture. Something that could travel, and have a fully functional kitchen. Would love to collaborate with someone if interested.

Nice round up, but he left out two of my favorite, beautifully designed office/garden pods; The Polyhedron (http://ifitshipitshere.blogspot.com/2010/08/if-youre-looking-for-me-ill-be-out-back.html)
and The Blob (http://ifitshipitshere.blogspot.com/2010/01/hard-boiled-housing-blob-vb3-by-dvma.html).

Not to mention this round up of ten cool prefab office-garden sheds I put together in 2009:
http://ifitshipitshere.blogspot.com/2009/08/mod-pods-plenty-prefab-custom-office.html

enjoy!

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