Working from home is great. For a while. You settle down to crack on and finish that urgent report. Enjoying the peace and quiet, the lack of distractions and meetings. Then the kids come home and start running around. They want to see you. They don't understand that you have deadlines to meet. Or the dog starts barking at the postman. It's not all blissful ambience trying to work at home.
Which is why more and more people are turning to garden offices as the solution to their home working issues. Just think, your very own office at the bottom of the garden. Free from distractions. A totally separate work space that you arrive at and leave everyday. Just like work! Garden offices can also double as hobby or games rooms. The missus won't let you watch the big game? No problem, you can just retreat to the bottom of the garden and watch it in your office.
Garden offices are an affordable solution to a lack of dedicated space for home working. With all the kids, it's hard to make room for a full time office. Working on your laptop on the kitchen table is hardly ideal. Not only is it far from ergonomically sound, but there's the constant temptation of the fridge. No wonder so many home workers are a little on the portly side!
The best thing to do is get out of the house completely and make use of that dead space at the end of the garden. Having a totally separate working area helps you to keep that distinction from home and work. Plus it might stop you from over working. With a home office, the temptation is always there to keep going back to the computer and doing a little more. Garden offices help you separate out the two and give you a better work life balance.