This is an exciting option for an extra room at your home, particularly if the budget is tight and you need some dedicated and quiet workspace.  I imagine this affordable garden shed as a perfect place to write, or perhaps if you are a garden designer needing an inspiring office in the landscape. There are many office garden pod designs but this one has an intriguing DIY pricepoint and plans. As well as a design that would make it work with any house’s architecture.

Designed by Burd Haward Architects, this self-assembled, pre-prefabricated kit is available for £5,000 (about $7500).

My favorite detail is the corner window that you face when you sit at the desk.  You can choose what type of planting to grow over the external mesh to camouflage the recessed ply walls and roof.

From the Designers :

The Green Room is a pre-fabricated garden room, conceived as a take on the traditional garden shed.  Its economic, simple pitched volume is clearly expressed internally and externally.  Internally, the room is lined with ply and has built-in ply furniture: externally a galvanised mesh is applied that encourages planting to grow up it, camouflaging the walls and roof, leaving just the large projecting window & door visible. 

The Green Room is fully insulated and heated, and provides a warm, dry, light and low cost additional space for living and working.  Two have been built to date, and a further three commissioned. The design has potential to be developed as an ’off the shelf’ product for mass production.

What would you grow on the building?

Here are some ideas if you aren’t sure: Roses, Trumpet Vine, Clematis, Hops, Honeysuckle – or maybe all of the above?

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