Brilliant home office solutions from Harrison James

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Do you need to work from home? Harrison James create home offices with a real difference

With an increasing number of us working on short contracts or as freelancers, working from home is becoming the option of choice. But do we all have the luxury of free space that can be dedicated to being used as a home office? The answer could well be yes. Domestic space comes at a price these days and few of us will have a home that has an available room that can be used as a dedicated office. That can often mean cramming a desk into the corner of your living space or even a bedroom or kitchen – hardly ideal when you need peace to be able to work.


Harrison James have come up with a solution for one client who needed just that. You may well remember seeing them on these pages quite recently. They are the team that build those rather smart garden buildings, the ones that helped you shed the idea of garden sheds.

Since that article Harrison James have been selling a lot of buildings specifically for use as home offices or home businesses. “We have built for graphic designers, administrators, book keepers, retail businesses, beauty therapists, physios and company directors, all using a Harrison James Garden Room to work from.

“People working from the dining room table do not get the separation from home life to work life that is so important in being productive and efficient in business – as well as not letting that work interfere with your home life”

“There are many benefits – ultimately owning the building rather than paying rent, reduced or even no rates, and of course a very easy commute. But the thing that we hear time and time again is that people who are working from the dining room table do not get that separation from home life to work life and that is so important in being productive and efficient in business – as well as not letting that work interfere with your home life.”

Recently Harrison James have created a building for a client in Thames Ditton which is specifically used as an office for a computer hardware and software support company.

This is a truly bespoke building out of neccessity. The client’s garden was an awkward shape and the building had to fit perfectly into the corner of his small terraced house’s garden.

There is in fact only one right angle in the whole building, with a curved back wall and the whole thing meets at a point by the back gate. They really did have to maximise the amount of available space he had. At the same time it had to look good and with aluminium bi-fold doors opening on to a composite deck, an environmentally friendly product made from recycled carrier bags, which they also built it really does have style.

“The deck looks great and will never rot or fade and it really does add to the success of the whole build. Our client is delighted with the result and loves his new office”.

And so he should, the level of design input and technical excellence is second to none. This 9.2 square metre building has an EPDM rubber roof and is fully insulated. The exterior is clad in Canadian red cedar and it has aluminium bi-fold doors. Inside the interior is plastered and painted and there is an oak effect laminate floor.

There is aPart P certificated mains electrical connectionwith eight double sockets, ten spot lights and the main IT hub has three cat 6 cable points along the desk. There is also co-axial cabling for TV and an alarm system. Outside the composite decking is illuminated by exterior LED lights in the step.

So how complex was the job? “Well we had to remove the existing decking that was in the garden before starting work on the building. Once that was done the whole job took only three weeks from start to finish. Possibly less time than arranging a lease on an office and certainly less time than you would need to buy one. There was absolutely no disruption to his house and to his family and as he was working from home already, no disruption to his business. All in all it was huge success for him and for us”.

Clearly Harrison James are not only great at building these garden rooms, let’s not mistake them for sheds, but beyond that build quality they are great at coming up with solutions for even the most complex and difficult of situations.

A Harrison James garden room can be seen as a great solution when extra space is required but you have no desire to move and when it comes to use they are so flexible. As we can see here as a home office but also as a retreat for relaxation, a home gym, a studio for an artist or a games room for adults or for the kids. It can even offer that added benefit of being used as an occasional guest room – and can even be fully plumbed if needed. The opportunities are many fold and Harrison James are excellent at coming up with solutions, creating excellent designs and finally delivering a top quality build at great speed and with little disruption. They are always happy to come to your home for a consultation and assess the potential that you have to have a Harrison James garden room of your own.

Harrison James
Contemporary Garden Rooms
Old Barn Nurseries
Dial Post (A24), Nr Horsham
West Sussex, RH13 8NR
Call the office on 01403 713766 or the build team on 07791 685 274 now for further information or for a free site survey and quotation.
www.contemporarygardenrooms.com