- Home
- Garden Rooms Gallery
- Garden Office Sizes & Styles
- Garden Rooms Tech Specs
- Testimonials
- News
- Viewing a Garden Room
- Contact
The number of people working from home is at an all time high and increasing year-on-year. Many people who work from home are self-employed, operating their business from dedicated and well equipped home and garden offices. An increasing number of larger companies are also taking advantage of technology now available that allows employees to work from home and be equally if not more productive than when working from a central office location.
With more people now working from home, either full or part time, dedicated garden offices and office garden buildings are quickly becoming a necessity.
As one of the longest established companies in the business, The Home Office Company has been producing specifically designed, high quality and individually tailored garden offices since 1998.
Using this experience, the company has gone from strength to strength, building on our long standing heritage with customers throughout the UK and Europe enjoying the benefits of our range of fully insulated traditional and modern garden office designs.
Being able to work from home successfully requires careful consideration. It is important that you have a dedicated area from which to work so that you can have a clear distinction between work life and home life. This is where garden offices provide the ideal solution. Whether used as an office in the traditional sense or as an art studio, music room, teaching area or indeed for any other purpose; a garden office provides a dedicated, comfortable and purpose built space from which to conduct your business.
The number of uses for which garden offices from the Home Office Company have been purchased over the years, for both business and leisure, are vast. They include garden offices, home cinemas, recording studios, home gyms, treatment and therapy rooms, classrooms and swimming pool rooms to name but a few. The options really are endless as our bespoke garden offices can be designed and built to suit any need or requirement.
In addition to it being easier than ever before thanks largely to the internet, the most common reasons why people choose to work from home include the significant cost savings that can be made and that they find they are able to achieve a better work/life balance.
Minimising the need for commuting to and from an office or place of work can save significant amounts of money, particularly as the cost of transport is becoming more and more expensive each year. Working from home in a well equipped garden office means that thousands of pounds that was previously spent on fuel for the car, train tickets or similar can be saved each year.
The time spent by not having to travel to and from an office or place of work means that people find they can be significantly more productive, spend more time with the family or simply spend more time relaxing. Swapping traffic jams and crowded trains for a 60 second commute can be the reality with a garden office.
Purpose built garden offices, such as those offered by The Home Office Company, provide the ideal way to work from home. However if you are looking for a solution to provide space in your home from which to work you obviously should consider the other options before going ahead with your purchase. Some of the options which people consider before deciding on a garden office include:
Extension - having an extension built onto your house is often a lengthy and messy process, and it can mean considerable upheaval for you and your family whilst the extension is being built. Garden offices can be constructed much more quickly and without disturbing your main residence. Garden office buildings are also available at a fraction of the cost of a home extension and usually negate issues relating to planning permission.
Spare Room - using a spare bedroom or other area of the house as a home office is often one of the first options people consider when choosing to work from home. However, in reality this situation means that it can become incredibly difficult to separate your working day from your home life and results in much of what should be your productive period being lost to other distractions. This is assuming your spare room even was really spare to begin with and you have other areas in which to store your belongings and accomodate guests. Home offices provide dedicated work areas designed specifically for their intended purpose and help you to keep your working environment and living space separate.
Moving House - Working from home inevitably means that you will require space in which to do so. Moving to a larger house is an option that could help give you this room, however this is usually an incredibly expensive and stressful process and it can take a considerable amount of time to find a new house, sell your existing home and convert part of your new property into a home office. On top of which your monthly outgoings are likely to increase due to larger mortgage payments, council tax and utility bills. Garden offices are popular because they allow people to increase the value of their existing property and obtain the space they need quickly and without any upheaval.