Your Home Can Stop Draining Your Finances – And Start Adding To Your Bank Balance

Having a wooden garden office gives you a great place to work away from the hubbub of your family, and can add significantly to the value of your home. We all know that recent economic downturns have alerted everyone to the fragility of work for all workers, in all industries. Whether you work in banking or retail, or if you live in the South or the North – all of us have faced financial risks.

However, the thing that eats most of your money (your house) can also help youu to get out of it. Your house is a pretty versatile asset, and not just because you can take in lodgers or set up a hotel …

More people have started taking responsibility for their own futures, by setting up in business for themselves. Sometimes it starts at evenings and weekends before growing to a full-time occupation, and the stress on your family can be huge. But should your home already be able to fit in your new enterprise everything becomes easier – and achieving your dream is simpler.

Some people have to be out of the house and on the road by 7 every morning, just be be at someone else’s desk by 9. And then getting back after 7pm, tired and unable to spend much time with family.

Try this scenario: getting up when you wake up, having breakfast with your family, then going out to your garden office to put in a full day’s work – for your own business. At the end of your day, you wander back into your family home where you get to spend quality time with your loved ones.

It’s an easy choice, isn’t it?

You can see why setting up a new business from garden offices at home is so appealing – however, just because you have a garden room you don’t have to quit your job and start out on your own! That versatile space in your garden can be used as a spare bedroom, a games room, a study, or you can even rent it out. If you ever want to sell your house, you are safe in the knowledge that by building an attractive and usable garden office or summerhouse in your garden, you have also increased your house’s value.

One of our customers said: “Originally we used the garden room as an office to start our business with desk and computer. Now we use it as a garden summerhouse and utility room fully insulated with heating and lighting”.

Sounds like a win-win situation? Bakers Timber has a range of wooden garden offices on show in their premises in Sussex – go and have a look at what can be achieved in garden office design. Or go to their website ( www.bakerstimber.co.uk ) to read more.