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Garden Offices for Start-up Businesses

Solutions to working from home, professionally and efficiently.

Garden offices present the ideal solution, lets see how each of the key problems are addressed;

1. Separating work and family life   - the key issue here is that when you take on your own business you really do have to put in the hours and this disrupts family life. Being able to be close to your family while you do this is essential. Simply nipping indoors to be able to spend half an hour with your little ones for their bath and bedtime routine means you keep your promises without too much disruption. Although this can be done while you are working in the spare room its the bedtime antics that surround this and the constant disruptions from attention seeking youngsters or spouses that makes the spare room space a lot more "interruptible" than your dedicated garden office space. Simply working in your garden office means you are at the beck and call of family if need be but at the same time it's clear that you are in fact working even if others enter your dedicated garden office environment.

2. Not enough space - this is a huge issue that the garden office solves 100%. The space allotment in most modern houses means that there simply is no room for "extras" like a desk, and what little space there is fits no more than a PC on the desk itself. Being in everyone's way does not help either.  Allowing yourself dedicated office space is essential to the efficient working mindset. Your garden office space is dedicated, we have specially designed space saver desk systems that make the very best of the space within your garden office building. The various sized garden offices mean that there will also be one to suit your garden as well as your internal requirements.

3. Being taken seriously - if you have ever invited a supplier, or heaven forbid a potential customer to your home then you understand the key benefits of the garden office here without explanation. If you have yet to do this then be prepared. All the best laid plans will not stop your home looking, smelling and well being a home. Your guests will get a very homely fee, no doubt but the very many distractions in the home environment are bound to reflect on the meeting going well. However, simply leading your guest around to your garden office shows that you clearly have considered your business as a business rather than a hobby. Dedicated garden offices show any potential supplier or customer that your address may be residential but that your intent is strictly business. Garden offices are designed to sit 2 people comfortably in the space, able to see your PC at a minimum. Larger garden office models also allow multiple desks, team working, or better still dedicated meeting rooms.

4. Cannot do any work - Distractions!! Well there are certainly plenty of these indoors, apart form getting your spouse to take the sky card to work with them, or to lock the bedroom door the temptations will still be close at hand. However once you enter your garden office you are magically transported to a more professional place and the temptation or even awareness of those distractions soon disappears. If you are stronger willed and its simply a matter of being able to close the deal while the children play then what better way than to be in the safety of your own garden with your children, with windows allowing full sight of them while you make those important calls. Double glazing in the garden office windows and doors will soundproof the call for you while appropriate positioning of your garden office gives you full view of your little darlings.

5. Lack of privacy - the garden office is great here, imagine you are working from home when the TV or boiler repairman arrives, or worse a friend of your spouse or older children pops over to visit. Its hard enough to concentrate of your essential and important accounts or financial dealings without peering eyes, accidental coffee spillages or burst of laughter to disturb you. Garden offices offer peaceful and secluded space to allow you to concentrate and get your work done in half the time, then you too can join in the fun.

6. Strain on family relationships - it's not always essential to be working all the hours of the day, and for those periods when you could spend more time at home what better way to relax than to lock the door to your garden office and "go home". The work documents and environment as safely left behind while you have those friends over for the evening, and better still they can use the spare room without disruption of your working life. Being able to switch off, lock the garden office door and be uninterrupted while with your family means that the misconception that your have been "at home all day" vanishes and the whole family gets to spend evening or weekends together as before, the difference is you are just feet away to resume work whenever you need to.

7. Working too much - when to stop! Well garden offices can help there too, being just moments away from the house means you can stop 1 minute before meals or that essential TV programme. Garden offices mean that the dedicated entrepreneur can work all the hours god sends and still be just moment away from their own bed. The availability of this professional work environment, the ease with which focused work can be done means you simply become more efficient and even the most dedicated die hard work ethic will soon relax enough to bring back some home life.

8. Feeling isolated - garden offices are designed to be flexible, buying the right size office for you means that you could dedicate space for other desks or meeting space and the isolation can disappear. The  embarrassment of inviting your friends, colleagues, suppliers and customers to your home is gone and there is no need to be alone. Professional meeting space or the ability to discuss work related matters in a work environment of a garden office mean that you are much more likely to let people visit.

9. Self-discipline or self-management  - garden offices are designed to make you more productive in what otherwise would be a very relaxed home environment.

10. Home office legal constraints - Generally you do NOT need planning permission for a Smart Garden Office. Despite a 25-year design life, Smart offices are not considered to be permanent fixtures (i.e. they do not have their own foundations). Being sectional and below 3m in height, the Smart range is within the ODPM (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister) guidelines. See our garden office planning permission page for more details

So, lets look at the figures - how do you fund a garden office as a start-up business?

 

 

 

 
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What people are saying

Since 2001, Charles Dalton has been designing, specifying, and overseeing the manufacture & installation of over 200 dedicated garden offices across the UK. Here’s some of the press reviews he received. 

An ideal solution to working from home. BBC 2 Working Lunch  

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....the description dizzied me, I now crave one... Financial Times

Lavish, fully kitted out models from £6500. The Sunday Times 

My HQ, my think place, my second home. Arena Magazine

The Rolls Royce of the genre. The Independent

Think about using your garden if you're short on space indoors. These are purpose-built and include powerpoints. Woman & Home Magazine.

…an off-the-shelf home office solution that's geared to suit the employer as much as the homeworker. PC World Magazine  

Perhaps the most economical… costs less than many upmarket summerhouses and comes complete with internal fusebox, six electric sockets and lockable double-glazed windows and door...the standardised design and fittings keep the costs down. Self Build & Design Magazine