Working from home to crack the recession in a Garden Workshop

Working from home has been made a necessity for thousands of people due to the recession hitting majority hard. During the last recession the internet was mere myth and rarely heard of, thus making that even harder to earn the few extra pounds.

Today the internet is a vast place and plays a very dominant role in most individual’s lives and makes it easy to work as online marketer, copy writers and such like, for parents this makes time with the family easier to uphold. Every one is happy.

Although there is disadvantages to working from home as there are many distractions and can some times over rule the work load. There is a growing trend happening with home workers, people are purchasing Garden workshops  to separate the work life and home life while still working from home.

Garden workshops are of various sizes to accommodate a full office setup making working from home easy and separate just like you would be sat behind your office desk at head Quarters, the large garden workshops can have partition walls, more desk space and even be converted into fully functioning office suites for local colleagues to join the work from home trend.

Why is this trend happening?

The quick answer is “Broadband phone connection”.

This provides a high-speed way of communicating with the companies servers, making you a virtually in the office. With broadband, people can use the internet, check e-mails and transmit documents in the same way as they would in the office, so why be in the office.

“We’ve seen this trend grow in the last 6 years during a time when the conditions weren’t right and legal obstacles were in the way but now it is much better from a legal point of view, so I think we’ll see a lot more people doing this in the future. 

Some Benefits for Working from home in a Garden Shed?

1 – No travelling to work – commuting can easily add 3 hours to your daily commute on your journey and return journey home, if stretching these few hours out its equivalent to 2 extra days in the office, making it a 7day working week.

2 – Play a role in your home life more – This can include interacting with your children, cleaning a couple of pots while you are on your break, all of this helping and maintaining a healthy social home life. This benefits the whole family.

3 – Food costs – Working from home in your garden workshop can reduce your daily food coast, buying your lunch daily in and around the office workplace can some times be overpriced, offers that aren’t saving you money. from experience buying a meal of a sandwich, drink and a bag of crisp can easily take £5.00 daily not including any snacks you purchase in between. eating at home could cost far less as you already have the food.

Disadvantage for working from home in a Garden workshop?

1 – Distraction – There are many distractions in your home that can affect your workflow, answering the door can take your mind away from the load and delay your targets. Disconnecting yourself from your home life while at home is hard thus the trend of people purchasing garden workshops to accommodate the separate life a must.

2 – Pressure to work longer hours? As you are at home your job can increase its pressure and can starts to creep longer hours out of each individual and the balance between your job and family commitments will become unstable. People with young children find the balance a lot harder due to interaction young children require.

The Conclusion?
If this is an area which your employer supports and trusts the staff to balance time management then consider a garden workshop to separate your work from home. Its a healthy option to work from home and fast becoming a trend with office workers. 

Here is a garden workshop with various sizes that can accommodate your work life.

Please contact us to enquire about a garden workshop.

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Spring in Bloom.

Spring is a celebration of birth and renewal,

If the Sun is shining on your garden, yard or balcony you can still have a edible landscaped garden. How you may ask. Spring is just around the corner, the early season is a good time to start growing vegetables, plants and this one activity alone could make you healthier by improving your quality of food, conserving fossil fuels and helping children understand food does grow on trees. Would this interest you at all?

Whilst Edible landscapes are of course edible, its also a way to stimulate your mind on landscaping your garden just like you would with flowers, rockery for example, enabling your creative edge to blossom into nature.

Here is a great idea for a eco-friendly green way to start your Spring potting.

What you will need:

1 dozen eggs
Organic Planting mix
Tweezers
Seeds – Vegetables or herbs are perfect.
Aluminum foil
Egg Box
Water Spray Bottle
Some Sunshine.

Whilst tapping around the top part of the eggs, remove the top and empty the egg shells, clean them with warm water and remember to handle with care they are brittle. Use the inner part of the eggs for omelets.

Leave the egg shells to dry naturally, once thoroughly dry start to fill each egg with the compost mix and fill to roughly three quarters full.

Once all the egg shells have the planting mix its time to plant the seeds, using the tweezers place a seed or seeds into each pod just below the soil surface. once all the eggs are complete and seeded cover the egg box with foil, this protects it from the water misting.

Move the egg pods with your spring herbs, vegetables to a window which allows sunlight to penetrate through, mist these daily to keep the soil moist. Please remember to follow the seeds packet guidelines as these plants will grow and may need to be re-potted. Some veg and herbs can be grown indoors and some are outdoor dwellers.

Growing your own Veg and Herbs can reduce your carbon footprint, make your mark and start reducing the print.

One tip is to start small if you have never done this before, choosing the correct plant for your needs. When the experience gets more, venture with wilder ideas.

Good Luck and happy growing your Spring garden vegetables and herbs.

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The Apple Ipad and a Garden shed.

While Apple find it hard to believe they fitted so many great ideas into a tiny peice of machinary.The Apple Ipad is the machinary in question which supports High Resolution LED backlit IPS Display, a mutli touch screen with incredible responsiveness and an amazingly powerful Apple designed processor chip. All of this is packaged into something that is roughly an A4 sheet of paper in size and around 1 inch thick. Amazing.

So as the Potting and planting season is nearly upon us, why not use the Ipad and its applications to monitor, record or diary the the early spring planting season or keep a blog for the whole year, more and more people are using social networking tools to record and share data online to other enthusiasts, and many are tweeting about it on twitter which gives tips and tricks to these going on’s.

The Apple Ipad can handle these perfectly and with application that will be available such as, FlowerPedia, ilocate garden supplies, garden ideas, and garden lanscape design app.

These applications are currently on the Iphone and suggested they will make there way to the ipad.

FlowerPedia
What is this application about: If you love flowers this is the app for you; it has nearly 1500 photos that can be used as backgrounds, emailed  or browsed ; contains 100 families of flowers with tips on how to identify them.  Gardening tips and medicinal properties are coming soon.  Even better: no internet connection required.

iLocate Garden Supplies
What us this application about: Driving around and decide you need a garden hoe or a spade? This is a comprehensive database with contact info, driving directions, etc to locate stores where ever you may be.  You can scroll through locations, search by post code or GPS, one touch search. Updated version has less confusing faster interface, interactive map, ability to add a business,

Garden Ideas
What is this application about: Not everybody has acres to garden -if you have a small plot then this app, with the help of master gardener Rebecca Kolls, can help you get started with video segments and how to’s  this is more than just photos. Updates include ideas for the patio including growing a pizza garden, creating a bamboo trellis, growing lettuce in a pot.

Garden Landscape Design
What is this application about: This is a book by Tree Frog Reader which lets you navigate through this handy gardening/landscape guide, with easily viewable images and garden tips and tricks;  you can write notes and rotate images to landscape/portrait, adjust font size and type and no internet connection is required to use this application, so maybe if you are secluded and signal is dropping then this is a great feature.

The list above doesn’t scratch the surface and many application revolving around gardening, landscape design, Garden shed building are fully available and hope some will pass through to the Ipad. This kind of revolutionary kit will extend the mobile electronics which was once a indoor technology into outdoor world of garden sheds. And with 140 thousand apps and ebooks already surfacing for the ipad i am pritty sure there will be fantastic gardening tools to be use at your peril.

When the summer months arrive we will all be sat bathing in our landscaped gardens tweeting, blogging and facebook-ing on our Ipads.

To view the ipad and its features visit Apples website 

Apple Ipad

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Further to requests relating to the areas we delivery and erect to we have now produced a Garden Shed Delivery and Assembly area map.

This idicates in Dark grean the possible areas that we can delivery, (excludes Central London)

To obtain a quote regarding the delivery and assembly please give us a call and we can tailor your Garden Shed and Delivery to suite both yours and our needs.

We have also compiled a quick Q and A:

Q. How is the garden shed delivered?
A. The building will be delivered in paneled sections, the number and size of which are dependant on the type of building that has been purchased. For those buildings with dimensions in excess of 10ft in length, some sections will come in two separate panels.

Q. Could I request a particular date for delivery?
A. We can put in requested dates for you however they are only requested and can not be guaranteed, we would normally call to confirm about a few days before to confirm the suggested date and times.

Q. Do I need to be there?
A. Preferred yes, but a designated person can also represent you, providing we have been informed of this. A full name and telephone contact will also be required for both yourself and the individual who will represent you.

Q. Will the driver take the building through my property?
A. No. unless requested to by yourself. drivers are not insure to do this.

Q. Will the driver need any help?
A. Our drivers will not ask for any help to offload your building.

Q. What size lorry will my building arrive on?
A. We operate 3.5t vans with low load access, We need to be informed of any access issues at your point of order so we can ensure your delivery will arrive without any problems.

Q. Can the garden building be delivered at weekends?
A. In some circumstances yes but additional charges maybe incurred,

Q. Can I order my delivery to a different name or address?
A. Yes you can we will need an invoice address for the payment taken and the full delivery address.
Q. I can only take delivery on a Saturday but I need to erect my building by Saturday night. Is this possible?
A. Yes, additional charges for Saturday Delivery and Assembly. Please call us for further information regarding this.

Q. What will happen if I pay for Saturday am delivery and it doesn’t turn up on time?
A. This is very unlikely to happen however in the event of a non delivery please call us as soon as possible, so we can contact the drivers.

Please note that if delivery fails for any of the following reasons a refund will not be available.

1.You are not home on arrival at the property.

2. Any access issue that there may be to your property and/or street that has not been discussed with the Delivery Team.

3. You refuse the delivery on arrival due to minor or cosmetic damage.

4. If the Building is too large/small for property – please check sizes before you buy.

5. If you decide to change your mind at point of delivery.

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Do you want to be the Newstar on your street with your sectional building?

A pent roofed garden she with an opening window and incorporating a more complex roof construction to give a fully boxed off finish, this garden shed is also available in a heavy duty option.

All of our garden sheds and fence panels are manufactured from European pine, felled from renewable forest. galvanised ring shank nails are used in the production of the sections to avoid unsightly staining. prior to delivery our garden sheds and fence panels are treated with a base coat preservative. However once erected, all garden buildings must be treated with a good spirit based preservative such as Cuprinol

Please ask about our bespoke apex garden sheds options for this excellent and versatile garden shed

We have increased some of our Pent shed range to include 10 different options. for example:

There are more options available which can be choosen in various options. Please refer to our main page for full details.

Prices start from £230. Delivery and Assembly is also available, please call regarding this.

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We want to shout about our new interactive serice for previous customers who have purchased garden sheds, Fence panels, Poultry Housing and runs.

www.shedsdirect.info is our customer testimonial and review website, each submitted testimonial will be authorised and then uploaded to the page for potential new customer or previous returning purchasers to see how other products score.

So if you are a previous customer who would like to submit then visit our sister site at www.shedsdirect.info

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The garden shed History

Garden sheds, the Englishman’s castle.

A Reader in Architectural and Garden Shed History in the History of Art Department, has embarked on the mammoth task of writing a garden shed history of all the counties in Britain. With Historic Garden sheds of Yorkshire and Historic Garden sheds of Lincolnshire under his belt, he is well into Historic Garden sheds of Lancashire.

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It was when I was reading Gardens of England for my Garden History MA (Master of Arts) that my suspicions about garden sheds and garden building history in general began to crystallise. Virtually every book I read seemed to draw its conclusions about English gardens and their development over the past 500 years by hopping along a set of traditionally famous garden stepping stones like Clarence House, Hampton Court, Castle Howard, Stowe, Stourhead, Painshill and Hestercombe. Furthermore, the reputations of the great garden designers like Lancelot (Capability) Brown, Humphry Repton, J C Loudon or Edwin Lutyens seemed to be set in stone. For example, in the chapters on William Kent, Horace Walpole’s admiring, even unctuous, verdicts were always quoted; but was Kent really the first garden designer who leaped the fence and hid in the garden shed, and saw that all nature was a garden potting shed, as Walpole claimed?

Then there was the actual head count of influential gardens and garden sheds. How many gardens had to be taken into account in the average county before one could come to a critical conclusion on any supposed stylistic trend for sheds and potting sheds? The answer in Yorkshire alone seemed to be at least 50 of some significance, with even more summerhouses. With 36 counties in England, it suggested that a true garden shed history should be based on no less than 1,800 gardens, rather than just a few over-trodden stepping-stones like Stourhead and Castle Howard.

But was a survey of 1,800 gardens and potting sheds possible? Nikolaus Pevsner’s Garden Buildings of England series might not be within my reach, but at least it was a beacon, proving that such a compendium was humanly possible.

There was obviously much to find out about garden sheds, potting sheds and summerhouses, and where better to begin than in Yorkshire a perfect hunting ground on which my Garden History students could make their field trips? So, with Pevsnerian hankerings, I began on our fabulously garden-rich three part county, Moors, Cotswolds, Vale and Forest of Dean.

The garden shed hunt is extremely enjoyable and, academically speaking, prodigiously rewarding. Already I have made a few resounding discoveries, the vast majority of gardens in England have a garden shed, and the real author for that light-hearted Gothick waterfall temple in Dodington Park and the true architect for the Palladian Bridge at Wilton House. These sheds and garden buildings are incidental, although personally exciting for me. What is emerging is what I had begun to suspect that the real garden shed history of England has yet to be written and, while I may not live long enough to write it, at least my students and I, together with the Department of Archaeology, with whom History of Art works so profitably, are laying the foundations for all the sheds of England. As in Robert Browning’s poem, The Grammarian’s Funeral, the basic grammar has to be got right before the treasures of Greek and Latin literature can become readily accessible. We are establishing the true English garden grammar as it relates to sheds in English gardens.

Garden sheds & Potting sheds of England

Each county, we find, has its own individual garden shed profile, its times of rich profusion, its odd vacancies, its idiosyncratic ways of dealing with a prevailing garden shed fashion. Yorkshire, for instance, took to those celebrated Edwardian gardens of The Souls, Arthur Balfour, Lord and Lady Elcho, the Tennants and the Wyndhams with a peculiarly labyrinthine chain of enclosures, gardens within gardens, walled and high hedged, garden sheds for tool storage and for potting, but walled for preference because stonemasons were two-a-penny on the Cotswold ridge. Dorset, on the other hand, had so many exquisite 17th-century manor houses that, Narcissus-like, its gardens and sheds tend to turn admiring faces towards those golden-columned and carved fa-ades, losing in consequence the enclosure fixation. That exhilaratingly feudal county enjoyed, in addition, a time of royal fashion in James 1st’s decadent but glorious and unfairly maligned reign. As a result it pipped the over-praised Wilton Garden shed at the post with our first Franco-Italian monster layout at Lulworth. Wiltshire is just beginning to reveal a romantic bias to water gardens over those clear chalk streams, but that is largely still ahead of me.

Our strength in the MA Garden History teaching has been, and will continue to be, our earthy practical approach. We do not just sit back and extrapolate from other people’s writings, literary exegesis and those other dryly academic and parasitic approaches to a subject. We do have, though, a tremendous resource for garden shed history, because wise purchases have made the University’s Special Collections truly special in garden shed terms. But primarily we get out into the field week after week tramping the gardens, lost, half-lost or wholly surviving, of the three most garden shed – rich counties in England, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Lancashire, with York and our very own Harrogate at their strategic heart, making this University the natural place for setting up a Centre for Garden Shed History Studies. The result is rarely a lecture without new material and rarely a dull presentation or essay from a student in a group still flushed with the pleasure of recent scholarly discoveries and the challenge of turning accepted opinions on their head.

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Do you want a Blog? Do you have thoughts you want to air on the internet? if so have a blog installed for a small £2.80 and start chatting.

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Nice article i read today about Microsofts new Vine,

Desktop client which gives features like Twitter and facebook but with location awareness. Read the whole article on here.

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