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Oh, a summertime office like this one would make work a lot more fun. As far as home offices go, this one's a mix of fun and function...

 
 

The computer is set up on an Ikea folding table and the folding chair is softened with a cushion. The interior of what appears to be a fairly simple garden shed has been painted light blue for a cool, relaxing outdoor office. Now, we can't promise we'd actually get much work done in an outdoor office but it is summer, afterall.

Via: House to Home.

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I think this is the link to the shed in it's original state -- unpainted and without the french doors.

http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate.do?dest=5&item=344503&pid=_Froogle&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=6642

posted by greenpoint on 2008-07-15 11:55:33
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This reminds me in theory of the backyard shed on Snoop Dogg's reality tv show where he goes to burn one away from the family. It's the shizznet!

posted by Kimberlina on 2008-07-15 12:45:01
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Fantastic! I'm so jealous.

posted by SMM on 2008-07-15 13:05:54
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oh! my heart skipped a beat when i saw this! it looks like the perfect place to write your childhood memories down.

posted by Pistachio on 2008-07-15 13:09:56
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it's cute, but I can't imagine it's practical at all.

posted by inertia on 2008-07-15 13:28:20
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I wish it didn't look so staged. Can anyone imagine sitting in that chair for more than 15 minutes without becoming uncomfortable? I don't think I could even stand up straight in there.

posted by MiklakMiklak on 2008-07-15 13:44:14
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Looks like it would be really easy to break into, no? Having a nice computer and such and those glass windows in the doors like that. I would be afraid someone would break in it, if it were mine.

It is really pretty though and if you aren't afraid of burglars, it seems divine.

posted by designpirate on 2008-07-15 16:19:03
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Cute, but I agree with everyone on the impractical side.

posted by madampince on 2008-07-15 16:39:19
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it looks lovely - it also looks a lot like a magazine production.

posted by maike on 2008-07-15 16:45:34
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I think of our shed in the back yard, and the bees, and sometimes maybe skunks or raccoons and chipmunks wanted to live in it. Maybe if you went out and kept it clean, the beasts wouldn't make a home, except for the spiders. I don't want an office with spiders. I can tolerate a couple but they have to stay by the ceiling. I'm also by the computer at night, and we can't have mosquitoes, or moths, or junebugs! God I hate them.

Camping would be less traumatic, as these elements (and snakes and bears) are to be expected, but the shed home office is a fantasy treehouse that needs to be reassessed for invaders such as the pests I described and others, and defended, i.e. built to defend against - in essence a house only smaller than the one you have.

posted by K T G on 2008-07-15 22:01:21
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