Garden sheds 'can help the creative juices flow'

12:06:20 25th June 2010

For many people garden sheds are not places to keep tools and other items but rather are spaces where they can relax and let their creative juices flow.

According to the Independent, garden sheds are less a storage facility and more a 'Modernist office with a view' and suggested that employees may find their productivity and happiness is boosted by working from their own shed.

The newspaper states that many great thinkers and artists from history used their garden sheds as places where they could escape and seek inspiration, including existentialist philosopher Martin Heidegger among others.

"Rapper Snoop Dogg wrote hit songs in his garden shed, William Harley and Arthur Davidson assembled their first motorcycle in a backyard shed and the sculptor Henry Moore was so addicted to working in sheds that he had several," the news provider claims.

Lord Saville, who has spent the last 12 years compiling a report on the Bloody Sunday Massacre, uses his garden shed as a home office, the Daily Telegraph reported recently.