How Your Home Can Stop Costing You Money - And Become A Way Of Increasing Your Wealth

Building a wooden garden office provides a fantastic work space away from everyday family life and can add 30% to the value of your home. Recent economic events have been sobering for everyone, across all industries and across the entire country. North, South, manufacturing, banking – it can seem as though you are living your life on someone else's whim.

And as some of the blame for the credit crisis was laid on the housing market it is easy to forget that the house that started this crisis can also help rescue you.

On the back of economic uncertainty, there has been a marked increase in people setting up their own business. Starting out on your own can start with a lot of work in the evenings and weekends, even before you've quit your old job. The impact on your family life can be difficult. But should your home already be able to fit in your new enterprise everything becomes easier – and achieving your dream is simpler.

Imagine getting out the house by 7am every day to be at your desk working for someone else by 9am. And then getting back after 7pm, tired and unable to spend much time with family.

Here's a new picture: rising at 8 in the morning in time for breakfast with family, wandering into a garden office where you work hard, but this time it's for you. After work, you get to spend all the time you want to with your family – and you're more relaxed because you haven't just had to commute to your office.

Do you see the attraction?

Working from garden offices at home is becoming more and more popular these days - but you don't have to use your garden room to start a new business, it has so many other uses such as a gym, a study, or extra rentable space. 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 Bakers' Timber Buildings customer 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".

Doesn't that sound like a good idea? 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 have a look at their website at http://www.bakerstimber.co.uk/.