Last September Amanda Farren of Ella Announcements won one of our garden offices in the 2009 Remote Worker awards and last month she moved in to her new premises.  The office has given 22 year old Amanda much needed additional space as she juggles caring for her three young children and building her business.   Amanda said: “It’s great to have our dining room back!   Being able to keep the house for the family has been an enormous benefit and I love being able to work in the office and watch my children playing in the garden“.  Vivid Green Director, Neil Johnston said “The design works really well with lots of light from the large windows and glazed door and a good view of the garden and house.   Also, the installation is a good example of the benefit a garden building offers to separate work from home”.   Ella Announcements is run by Amanda, a work-at-home mum to 3 young children from her home in Coventry, where she juggles everything from designing and printing, to hoovering and laundry, with several lunch stops, nappy changes and school runs (4 a day!) in between.   www.ellaannouncements.com/

Standard designs at a discount All of our insulated garden buildings to date have been bespoke but, in recognition that there is a significant cost saving if customers choose a design that we have already built, we are now offering some of our designs at a discount of 10-15%. The other option we are offering is ‘self completion’ or ‘bare board’. We install the insulated garden building, complete with roof membrane, external cladding, windows and doors and customers put in the electrics, internal plasterboard, heating and decoration. For those with the time and capability this offers a further 15-20% saving. In both cass the buildings are just as well insulated as our bespoke designs with the same quality of materials and workmanship. Prices below exclude VAT and are for installation within 100 miles of Harpenden. Call for prices beyond and for detailed specification.

Edden: 2.4x 2.4m; £6,500 complete, £4,700 bare board

Collier: 6 x 3m; £17,800 complete, £15,320 bare board

McClelland: 3 x 3m; £12,100 complete, £9,900 bare board

Rawlings: 3.2 x 3m; £11,700 complete, £9,500 bare board

Wikinson: 5 x 5m; £23,000 complete, £19,800 bare board

Fowkes: 6 x 3m; £13,500 complete, £11,000 bare board

Our latest build has provided a home gym for a fitness enthusiast and replaced a very old shed.  Sited on a sloping site, the building is clad in long lasting cedar with double glazed, argon filled windows and doors.  As well as providing power to the gym for the exercise equipment, we also extended the Sky cable to provide entertainment whilst working out.  The gym incorporates our usual underfloor heating and plasterboard finish.  Not the greatest photo but weather has been so poor recently; better to come in the Spring!