Garden offices are becoming increasingly popular throughout the UK. Garden Offices UK is designed to give you more information about the options available to you when buying a garden office and help you to understand the key benefits of using your garden space as work space.

So why are so many people choosing a garden office? Some of the drawbacks of working from home are that the spare bedroom can be cramped and you may be moving your work material each time you have a house guest. Alternatively working from the kitchen table means that home life and work life begin to overlap making both less enjoyable.

A garden office helps you separate your work and home life without the hours commute into work. The mental and physical separation of your office area  makes you much more productive and your garden office is a much more professional environment to invite customers or suppliers in for a meeting.

Sound odd having an office in the garden - well these days they are common place, many large employers like BT offer support for their staff by buying garden office buildings for their staff or offering salary incentives for those able to work professionally from home. Larger companies are looking at buying key staff their own garden office buildings as fleet purchases and with some specialised companies in the UK now specialising in the build of bespoke garden buildings its getting easier and more affordable for any size company to consider this option.

Also don't be alarmed by the statistics of garden shed and building break ins, these dedicated garden office buildings are secure - they have double glazing and better locks than a lot of UK homes!

Connectivity is also no longer an issue, running power and broadband connections to your house has never been easier, and is something that any professional Garden office supplier will be able to help you with as part of your purchase.

Each of the main topics above are areas that we had to address when starting our own business and we found that working at home with a garden office meant lower start-up costs and greater productivity. We hope you find the same benefits we did and you too will become an advocate of the garden office too. If you have any stories about your search for the perfect home office or recommendations of  products for our readers then please let us know by email and we will eventually add more of these to the website.

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Winner of our "Garden Offices UK - Supplier of the Year 2007" goes once again to SMART GARDEN OFFICES

This years entries were picked at random from searching the Internet for "garden offices", "garden buildings" and by our own team and our entries are listed below with a few of the positive feedback points from the reviews;

Create Space - very informative and stylish website, runners up due to their flexible approach to installation
InsideOut Buildings - great natural look and feel to these offices, pricing premium put them in 3rd place
Garden Escape - Loved the full glass idea for the garden gym, all bespoke offices
Dunster House Leisure & Garden - Fabulous garden office range, loved the Enterprise Garden office


Each of these suppliers was contacted by a mystery shopper and we rated their performance on;

• Customer service - knowledge of sales staff, interest in us as a customer and our needs, responsiveness to special requirements, speed of answering the phone and quality, speed and relevance of brochure ware
• Pricing - build quality vs. price, comparative price to others in UK marketplace, range of pricing options, flexibility to suit clients needs
• Range - the ability to offer a bespoke product and represent good value for money on fixed size ranges

As winners we have featured Smart Garden Offices range of buildings on our site this year as well as changing our "request a Brochure Link" to go directly to their website.

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Entries for Garden Offices UK - Supplier of the Year 2008 will not be accepted by email request,
if we cant find your company on the web or on our own links page - then you don't qualify for entry!