Tips for Buying Garden Offices

If you’ve decided to work from home, and settled on the idea of an office in your garden, here are a few pointers as you set up shop in your back yard.

You don’t buy garden offices every week, so size does matter. Think not just about the size of your garden, but what you need the office for. Clearly you need to think about things like filing storage, whether you’ll be holding meetings there and whether someone else is going to be working with you in the same space.

Bear in mind that your structure will need to be warm and comfortable, so insulation of some kind is important. Equally, garden offices need to be well-secured, especially if you are going to be leaving files or IT equipment in them overnight.

Sheds and summer houses serve a useful purpose, but they are not going to make good year-round garden offices. So don’t think you can cut corners by basing yourself anywhere other than structures which are specifically designed to be worked in.

To make your garden office compliant with new planning legislation, it needs to be more than two metres away from your boundary. Also, if it’s below 2.5m in height, you won’t need planning permission.

Finally, you can get some excellent tax breaks on garden offices if you buy wisely. More information is available online.

Dunster House has a great selection of garden offices which give you the convenience and comfort of home working without any of the distractions. Secure and fully insulated with double glazed windows and locking doors, they offer the perfect place to work. As Dunster House is a manufacturer and stockist, not an agent, it sells directly to its customers, and passes on its savings to them. See the user-friendly website for more information.