Discuss the topic of working from home, and you’re likely to experience a heated debate. On the one side, people claim that working from home is promotes productivity, you have no car drive necessary, no office politics, no lost time by just having to be in one location for a set time, no senseless group meetings, no dull chit-chat. Others say they simply could not muster up the self-control that’s necessary to be a telecommuter. They might be a tad emabarrassed to invite any customers to their household. The kids, when they are on holiday, are just too much of a distraction. There’s simply too many distractions to even get started. Finally, the office is fantastic because they feel a need to escape the house.

Naysayers of home working now have something that may really make them reconsider their argument : garden studios. Garden studios are built in your own back garden, not adjoining your home. A garden office offers a chance to work in a serene, creative surrounding, with greenery viewable from your office windows, and a peaceful location to conduct group meetings.

The fact that the garden office is isolated from your household is a vital one. It gives you an opportunity to escape from domesticity to work. Using the web and VOIP, it’s easy to acquire a separate telephone number just for the garden office.

Think about other advantages :-

- They are eco-friendly : the commute from home to garden uses only human footprints (as opposed to carbon footprints).
- You can work anytime of the day. Creative juices don’t automatically flow from nine to five, so if you have a new idea, or only wish to finish off a project in good time, step into your garden office.
- It’s a comfy, well-lit, natural surrounding. No glaring lights, grey partitions and non-specific background-noise of regular office life.

Garden offices can recoup their costs in just a few years, and repayments on a loan for a garden office are often comparable, or even cheaper than, renting office space.