Tiny House Design

Alex Johnson’s new book Shedworking: The Alternative Workplace Revolution is now available. You may already be familiar with Alex’s blog, Shedworking, which regularly features shed designs, builders, and people who work from home in their own garden offices.

Shedworking features stories of people discovering ways to improve their work-life balance by creating simple alternatives to traditional offices in their own backyards. The video below is an introduction to the book recorded by Alex.

Learn more at Amazon.com: Shedworking: The Alternative Workplace Revolution

The folks at The Secrets of Shed Building are running a design competition to design a Porch Shed. Here’s the design brief:

A porch, balcony, verandah or deck at the entrance to a shed forms the  transition between the garden and the interior space. In the winter months it is a spot to get shelter from the rain while you fumble for your keys, in the summer months it becomes a glorious place to sit outside enjoying the garden or lazing in your hammock with a long cool drink.

Porch designs come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes so use your imagination to come up with the ultimate porch for a shed, it may be a simple classic design or a complete wrap around, it could be very clean lines or richly decorated the choice is yours.

To enter the competition just check the rules and details at The Secrets of Shed Building and then submit your design before May 15, 2010. Winners will be announced on June 3, 2010 which coincides with the launch of Alex Johnson’s book, Shedworking – The Alternative Workplace Revolution. Alex runs on of my favorite tiny space blogs, Shedworking.

The top three competitors will receive signed copies of Alex’s book and the overall winner will win an iPod Nano. Here are two samples from the competition. Learn more about the Porch Shed Competition.

Alex at Shedworking has started a weekly podcast series for shedworkers and people that work in shedlike atmospheres. The audio recordings are short and and packed with useful and entertaining information. Here are direct links to the podcasts:

• Shepherd Huts (03:16)
• George Bernard Shaw’s Writing Hut (04:09)
• Coping with Loneliness (04:29)

Pictured here is a Shepherd Hut from Daphne’s Caravan, one of the Shepherd Hut builders featured in the first podcast listed above.