FOCUS
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 ...