Shed operates as office for card making business

10:12:20 15th December 2010

Two friends who set up a card making business in a garden shed in Cheshire claim their company would never have taken off if they had been made to pay expensive rent for an office space.

Kathy Slatter, 25, and Erin Taylor, 24, run their card design company from Ms Slatter's parent's garden shed in Hyde, Cheshire, the Daily Express reports.

The pair's business has grown over the past two years and they now have to rent storage space elsewhere as they are producing 5,000 cards a week.

"All our designs are still created in the shed and that's also where we broker all our deals over the phone," Ms Slatter told the newspaper.

They produce four ranges of cards each year with 36 different designs in each range, most of which are updated every six months.

The Financial Times recently revealed that 45-year-old controversial artist Damien Hirst uses his "little garden shed" as an art studio.