What are the Best Log Cabins and Garden Offices for Homeworking?

Offering plenty of natural light, sound security, and a timber structure that can accommodate electrical devices and leads, a good log cabin should easily meet most homeworkers’ requirements.

Select one with a cladding thickness of 34mm, or above, and you’ve got a comfortable home office, suitable for use the whole year round.

What’s more, outside working hours, a log cabin is also perfectly equipped for use as a garden room – a wonderful sheltered space for hobbies, garden parties and your family’s downtime.

In short, log cabins are versatile garden buildings, which can rightly be viewed as an extension of the home.

We stock a superb range of log cabins for sale, many of which make great garden offices. Here are two of them:

This garden building has the appearance of an upmarket summerhouse but the strength of a log cabin, so enjoys a light and airy feel, while providing you with complete weatherproof protection.

Made from 34mm slow-grown Nordic spruce, with a tongue and groove chalet-cut design, it is unquestionably built to last. With wind braces, a 19mm tongue and groove floor, plus 19mm tongue and groove roof too, this garden cabin is also supremely weathertight.

The glazed double doors are fitted with a laminated frame and stainless-steel sill, which protects the wood from wear and tear in this high-traffic area. With the addition of four extra-large, opening windows, the interior receives an abundance of natural light.

All in all, this log cabin probably makes a more congenial working environment than your firm’s head office. And with £280 off* the regular asking price, the best time to strike a deal with us is now.

No log cabin or garden office write-up would be complete without mentioning Forest – Britain’s premier manufacturer of wooden garden buildings. And as this log cabin includes 10m2 of internal space, it’s perfectly sized for use as a garden home office.

The walls are made from 34mm interlocking logs, while both the floor and roof consist of 19mm tongue and groove boards, known for their strength, durability and weather resistance. The floor is supported by pressure-treated bearers too, which improve air circulation underneath the log cabin and act as a barrier against rot-causing ground moisture. The roof is covered in a polyester-backed weatherproof felt, which will not tear and has a life expectancy of 15 years.

Glazed double doors and two extra-large windows flood the interior with natural light. The former are fitted with a key-operated lock, so rest assured that your valuable office equipment and important documents will remain safe from unwanted attention. An additional side window is also included. It opens via a tilt and turn mechanism, so you can ventilate your office, whenever it’s required.

And with £750 off* the usual price tag, it doesn’t require executive decision-making skills to know the right time to buy is now.

Oh, and if you think the Forest Melbury 4m x 3m Log Cabin (34mm) would work for you but fancy a double-glazed model, we stock them too.

It might be the case that you simply don’t need a log cabin’s versatility, and that your sole focus is on acquiring a high-quality garden office. Well, the good news is that the trend towards homeworking has seen a huge increase in the number of specialist garden offices coming to market.

Tailored for professional people, who take their work seriously, these home offices are perfectly designed to optimise working conditions, so you can maximise your productivity.

We stock a great range of specialist garden offices and, as time is of the essence in the business world, we’re going to cut to the chase by showing you the best one first...

Forest Xtend is a bespoke range of pre-fabricated garden buildings, which are more cleverly designed, better built, and come with superior features to any other range of specialist garden offices. They are the home office of choice for high-ranking executives, for whom only the best will do.

These market-leading garden offices are expertly constructed from structural insulated panels (SIPs), which are a type of robust sandwich panel, used in the construction industry to build energy-efficient homes. SIPs provide a damp-free environment, which is cool in summer and cosy in winter, so you can enjoy perfect working conditions the whole year round.

An Xtend garden office’s walls consist of 75mm of insulation, sandwiched between two sheets of OSB. They are then covered in cladding, both inside and out. To the exterior, it’s 15mm premium tongue and groove, renowned for its superior weathertightness and immaculate finish. Inside, pre-cut MDF, with a vertical beaded profile, is used. This is coated in primer, so you can paint the walls in your chosen colour, using standard emulsion.

The total thickness of these walls is an incredible 177mm.

What’s more, the battens on the interior cladding are designed to leave ample space for wiring and/or recessed ceiling lights, should you wish to add mains electricity at a later date.

Unlike other top-quality pre-fabricated garden offices, SIPs are also used to construct both the floor and roof. The former is a whopping 108mm thick, so isn’t just another source of insulation, it’s able to support heavier equipment and cope with constant footfall too. The latter is 122mm thick and finished with EPDM, which is a superior rubber cover, offering exceptional weatherproof protection and supplied with an extraordinary 50-year guarantee.

This particular Xtend garden office comes with fully-glazed double doors and a full-length adjacent window, the top half of which opens. A similar window is located on the side of the structure, allowing you to ventilate your office, whenever it’s required. A-rated toughened double glazing is used throughout.

These top-of-the-range insulated garden offices have a category C energy-efficiency rating, with the potential to rise to B with the addition of a solar panel. Packed full of luxury features, they really do provide a wonderful working environment. In fact, it’s so perfect that you’ll positively relish the chance to work some overtime.

View Forest’s full range of Xtend garden offices now. There are some incredible offers running right across the range, including £900 off* this featured model.

Anything made by Palram Canopia deserves to be taken very seriously indeed and, only just released to market, this high-specification garden office is no exception.

With its stunning contemporary design and extensive glazing, this might be a specialist home office, but it could easily make the perfect family garden room too.

The triple-insulated WPC walls are robust, durable and ideally equipped to accommodate cables, pipes and air conditioning units.

Aluminium, Acrylglass and polycarbonate are used in the construction process too.

The roof features both translucent and shade-providing polycarbonate panels, which you can install in different positions to suit the orientation of your garden and the layout of your office. It also includes 80mm of insulation and a multi-layered PVC ceiling, so it’s up there with the very best garden offices, in terms of quality.

This garden office’s other standout features are sliding double doors, with a low threshold and key-operated lock; two opening windows, which can be installed in various positions; a hidden guttering system, to assist rainwater runoff; and a superb 15-year manufacturer’s warranty.

You can be amongst the first to own one if you shop through us now.

Not only are we the nation’s leading online shed retailer, we’re experts in garden offices too.

Browse our superb range of garden offices for sale here, where we’re confident you’ll find a model that’s the perfect fit for you.

And, should you decide to go down the log-cabin route, don’t forget that we’re currently offering up to 25% off selected Forest log cabins.

If you’d like to speak to a garden office expert before you buy, please don’t hesitate to contact one of our friendly UK-based advisors now.

(*Prices as at 10/08/23)