Jul 26 2010
How Your Home Can Stop Costing You Money And Start Making You Money Now And In the Future
A stylish wooden garden office is not just a convenient space for you to work in away from the day-to-day confusion of family life, it also adds to the value of your house. We all know that recent economic downturns have alerted everyone to the fragility of work for all workers, in all industries. North, South, manufacturing, banking – it can seem as though you are living your life on someone else’s whim.
However, the thing that eats most of your money (your house) can also help youu to get out of it. If you have a house you can do so much, and not just by renting bits of it out …
More people have started taking responsibility for their own futures, by setting up in business for themselves. Sometimes it starts at evenings and weekends before growing to a full-time occupation, and the stress on your family can be huge. But if your home is set up to accommodate your new work habits, it is so much easier … and becomes something to strive for.
Some people have to be out of the house and on the road by 7 every morning, just be be at someone else’s desk by 9. And then getting back after 7pm, tired and unable to spend much time with family.
Here’s a new picture: rising at 8 in the morning in time for breakfast with family, wandering into a garden office where you work hard, but this time it’s for you. After work, you get to spend all the time you want to with your family – and you’re more relaxed because you haven’t just had to commute to your office.
Which would you prefer?
Working from garden offices at home is becoming more and more popular these days - however, just because you have a garden room you don’t have to quit your job and start out on your own! That versatile space in your garden can be used as a spare bedroom, a games room, a study, or you can even rent it out. If you ever want to sell your house, you are safe in the knowledge that by building an attractive and usable garden office or summerhouse in your garden, you have also increased your house’s value.
One Bakers’ Timber Buildings customer said: “Originally we used the garden room as an office to start our business with desk and computer. Now we use it as a garden summerhouse and utility room fully insulated with heating and lighting”.
So what are you waiting for? Bakers Timber has a range of wooden garden offices on show in their premises in Sussex – go and have a look at what can be achieved in garden office design. Why not find out more at their website: www.bakerstimber.co.uk.
