Financial Times columnist craves his own Henley office

Financial Times columnist, Jonathan Guthrie explains how he works from home and now craves his own Henley.

Home workers can set up shop in the herbaceous border

....I suspect Anne and Julian Baker, proprietors of Flat Earth Communications, a web design business in Camden, north London, are more typical in wanting some distance between their home-based business and their home life. "We had a tendency to fiddle on our laptops at the kitchen table until 11 o'clock," says Mrs Baker. "We weren't giving enough time to our family."

This all changed - happy day! - when the Bakers invested in a state-of-the-art Henley VariSpace garden office. Now, when they lock the door on the PCs and telephones, they lock away the world of work, retreating to the uncompromised domesticity of their flat.

OK, a garden office is really just a swanky shed, and several manufacturers supply them. But the description on the Henley website, let alone the pictures, dizzied me, with heady talk of "five-ply outerpanels" and "heavy duty panelised timber". I now crave one, although installing it would squash the hellebores and trigger divorce proceedings by my wife....