Shed of heaven

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Some are used as cinema rooms, others guest suites - and with the credit crunch biting, they're all smart ways to add space. From the office/sanctuary at the bottom of his garden, sings the praises of new-wave sheds

The apotheosis of the garden shed has been one of wonders of the new century. Twenty years ago, it was a chilly, ramshackle potting shed, where stolid and unsociable male hobbyists could briefly retire from their womenfolk and children, to smoke shag tobacco and read the evening paper by candlelight or hurricane lamp, amid a redundant detritus of garden implements and abandoned balsa-wood model boats.

Ten years ago, it went upmarket and became an outsourced office or ...

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