Shed Chic offers inspirational guidance to planning, sourcing and decorating your own individual garden building, from location and utilities to materials, style and furnishings.
Sheds are no longer neglected outbuildings or decorative afterthoughts at the bottom of the garden. While the traditional garden shed was once a great place to escape to, order would be at best haphazard; décor and design not a consideration at all. Now the humble garden shed has become the latest area of the home to be discovered by creative designers. As Sally Coulthard makes clear in Shed Chic, the garden should be seen as an extendable space, whether in the heart of the city or in a larger rural setting.
Increasingly these micro buildings are being pressed into service as an ‘office’ now that home working has become a credible alternative to commuting and an economic means of running a business from home. They are equally successful as spaces in which to indulge creative pursuits or to make a well-considered home-from-home away from the outside world.
Shed chic is all about making space. Outdoor buildings can double as additional rooms for over-crowded homes; they can be flexible and usable spaces that are as versatile as they are practical. Across the book’s lavishly illustrated pages, Sally demonstrates how you can convert your own garden shed into a neat and tidy office, an artist’s studio filled with inspirational clutter, a teenage den or a garden room for entertaining.
Complete with advice on creating a home office from scratch, including when to use architects, planning requirements, self-build options or off-the-peg solutions, Shed Chic will inspire and instruct in equal measure -an indispensable guide to planning, designing and decorating all forms of outdoor buildings.
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‘Sheds have become an area of the home to be discovered by creative designers who see the garden as an extendable space, whether in the heart of the city or in a larger rural setting. This title offers guidance to planning, sourcing and decorating your own individual garden building, from location and utilities to materials, style and furnishings.’
(Daily Telegraph )‘Offers plenty of inspiration if you are thinking of adding to, or reinventing, your property'
(Martha Stewart Living magazine )‘This beautifully illustrated guide is the perfect way to inspire someone who is thinking of adding a shed to his or her property.’
(Victoria magazine )Review
"This wonderful book is a mix of pure escapism and the very best practical advice on everything from design and planning to useful contacts. Like all Sally Coulthard's books it is beautifully written. It's also packed full of pictures of every kind of shed and "nearly shed" you can imagine from the cosy country style used as a second sitting room to the contemporary office cum guest accommodation nestled at the bottom of the garden. There's even a converted gypsy caravan to drool over. Even if you can't afford a shed, even if you haven't got a garden, you must buy this book because we'd all love a den and we can all dream."
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By nurse penny
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wonderful and inspiring,all i need to do now is save for the shed that can let me escape from the daily routine,mine will be the sea side theme, as i love the sea but live miles from it,it will be my own little beach hut in the scottish countryside
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Sue Cowell
Format:Hardcover
I would like to have any one of the 'sheds' featured in this book but will have to wait for my husband to finish building our summer house before I can get set on decorating the inside. Like an extended glossy interiors magazine, this book shows the wide variety of decorating choices we have today, there's even room for the garden tools as well!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Wonderful book to curl up and escape into, gives loads of ideas for creating outdoor spaces...something to inspire and dream about.
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Shed chic
From the look of the cover, thought there would be a lot more rustic type sheds and outdoor rooms. Some nice photographs, but not as useful as I thought it would be. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Kevin John Ollivier
4.0 out of 5 stars
A great coffee table book
Love, love, love this book. I wasn't looking for a how-to on how to build a shed or turn it into an office, I merely wanted pretty pictures and loads of inspiration, and that's... Read more
Published 7 months ago by SecondCherry
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LOVELY BOOK FULL OF IDEAS.
Having three sheds in my garden none anything like as stylish as the ones in this book i am now on a journey to to move in Shedupmanship. Read more
Published 21 months ago by blackarrowthree
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sheds
A good book for anyone wanting ideas on how to create an outdoor living area with a certain charm, but not for anyone interested in sheds in the true sense of the word.
Published 23 months ago by P. G. Spackman
2.0 out of 5 stars
shed chic
Although a nicely presented book I had hoped for some specific, practical ideas on how to do up my summer house. Something to flick through while having coffee.
Published on 3 Aug 2009 by teaaddict
4.0 out of 5 stars
Day dreaming
I love this book and it is great for visualizing a wonderful and cosy hideaway!
Recommended!
The pictures quality/print is a slightly low.
Recommended!
The pictures quality/print is a slightly low.
Published on 8 July 2009 by Su
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Coffee table must
The book lives up to the cover - it is a coffee table must - for those who long for a beachhut or a little retreat - far away for domestic choars this has ideas that can make the... Read more
Published on 17 Jun 2009 by A. Small
5.0 out of 5 stars
An inspirational read
Brought back all my nesting instincts, suddenly I feel warm about our garden shed! It was outsize to start with and now it is starting to look like a perfect retreat...
Published on 14 April 2009 by G. Thomas
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