There’s no time like the present as the old adage goes and certainly if you’ve been heard to complain about your work-life balance more than once or twice a week (and which can be verified by your exasperated other half), then isn’t it time to finally do something about it?

Working from home can be a challenge. It is difficult to stay motivated when your home life and your personal life suddenly merge into one. If you talk to any freelancer, you will find that this is the element of working from home that they struggle with the most. They either end up working too much, or they don’t work enough. Either way, it is important to get some structure to your day and to be able to separate your home life and your professional life effectively. This is where contemporary garden offices come into play. Read on to discover more about the benefits of them.

The first thing to consider with a practical outdoor office is the purpose, followed closely by placement.

Why do you want the office, what work will you carry out from it? And where is the best place to build? Once you understand this, you can better decide on a whole range of other things.

As with any other sort of office, your outdoor space should be designed to help you work. There is little help in an office space that you struggle to operate efficiently in.

Thinking about taking the next step in your career and working as a freelance consultant? Good for you. Then again, maybe you are understandably fed-up of the office commute and have simply decided to take up your employer’s offer of flexible working hours - which also happily allows you to work from home? If so, in both scenarios, you will be so much happier with a dedicated office space. But better still, how about a dedicated work space at the bottom of your garden?

From journalists and novelists to architects and sound engineers – there are numerous careers where it’s perfectly possible to work from home in a garden office building. And we should know, for here at Cabin Master we’ve been providing work from home options in the form of bespoke wooden garden office buildings for a number of years now.

Well, the easy answer to the question as to whether you could have your own personalised garden office/ gym or not is a resounding ‘yes.’ So, instead of driving 20 minutes or so to your usual gym and having to lug your kit around with you all day, what you could be doing instead is spending that extra 20 minutes exercising with your kit already neatly folded and waiting for you in your smart garden office gym. Sounds good? It is! At least that’s what the clients for whom we have already built personalised garden office gyms tell us.

We can’t imagine the news that DIY creative and make-do-and-mend queen Kirstie Allsopp has a Home Garden Office can come as a surprise to anyone who watches her TV shows. 

More and more of us are choosing not to go in to the office these days. And no wonder. The working from home advantages of having your own space in the form of a wooden garden office massively outweigh the negatives – certainly as far as some of our clients here at Cabin Master are concerned. So what are those perks then, we hear you ask.

Fancy avoiding a costly commute and time draining drive to work? We don’t blame you – maybe you’ve been playing with the idea of investing in a garden office but haven’t yet made a final decision? To help you along the way to a decision we’ve outlined the main points you need to think about before opting for your future garden office.

Spend 5 minutes thinking about the points below and then get in touch with one of our designers for an informal chat. Have some ideas ready if you like or let us make a few suggestions. We can talk through your ideas in more detail and get the ball rolling with a site visit and free quote.

These days it’s not the least bit unusual to walk into a friend or neighbour’s home and spot a garden office room out the back. With home working on the rise, garden offices are a popular alternative to converting a room in the home or trying to squeeze a desk in somewhere between the bookshelves. Recent trends show that the number of people choosing to work from home is only set to continue over the next few years.