Make the most of your summer time with the children

Make the most of your summer time with the children

According to Theophrastus, one of Plato’s greatest scholars, “time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.” Along a similar vein, nineteenth century writer, Henry Mackay, once said “time is free, but it is priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t...
Get Creative in Your Garden Studio

Get Creative in Your Garden Studio

The artist, Grayson Perry, says that all of his studios hark back to his father’s shed, where the tool strewn workbench became the cockpit of a fantasy aircraft journeying to imagined lands. A place apart, where anything can happen. Somewhere peaceful for, quiet...
Boost your creativity and walk to work in a Garden Office

Boost your creativity and walk to work in a Garden Office

Next week (12th to 16th May) is Walk to Work Week. You should give it a crack – walking is good for you on so many levels. Hippocrates deemed that “walking is man’s best medicine” whilst Nietzsche purported that “all truly great thoughts are conceived while...
Classroom design really does matter

Classroom design really does matter

We’ve always believed that the classroom is the place where young minds are moulded and according to new research carried out by the University of Salford and Nightingale Associates architects, classroom design really does matter. The results suggest that a classroom...
Bring work closer to home with a garden office

Bring work closer to home with a garden office

New figures from the Office for National Statistics have recently revealed that there has been an increase in the number of people working from home. Over the last decade a growing percentage of employees have chosen to ditch the commute and bring their working life...