Where in garden to locate garden office, diagram with 2 choices.

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So the diagram is of the upper part of the garden only. We have more garden nearer the house. Sketch is orientated looking up the garden from the back of the house. Only thing currently in situ is the 3 green veg plots. Dh does not want to move these. We have a long, over 100ft garden in total.

we are awaiting delivery of a 10ftx8ft shed (red square) which will have to face with the side of the shed towards the veg plots as the length won’t allow the shed door to face down the garden.

we are also awaiting delivery of a 4mx3m garden office. (Yellow square) I would like that facing towards the veg plots. I’ve previously had a garden office orientated the other way with the doors and windows facing the house and in the afternoon as the sun was in the west the sun shone straight into the garden office and made it hot. So having the windows pointing north to me makes more sense. There will be electricity and a heater. It’s easier to warm it up than cool it down.

if I have it in the top right corner which seems the logical place there will be a sofa length between the two outbuildings with pretty much opposing doors. Dh says there will be room to get stuff like lawnmower and bikes out the shed. I will have to get a sofa in the garden office but it will have double doors so I think I can get it in at an angle. After that it will just be people going in and out.

whichever space we don’t put the garden office we will have a patio. So again having the patio below the garden office, so nearer the house means it will get more sun. Having a patio in the corner means it will be shady. But I’m not keen on the sun. I mean I might occasionally do a bit of sunbathing but if I was going to sit on a garden sofa reading I’d rather be in shade. I also think having a patio there would make it private and sheltered, high fence on two sides and a garden office on the other.

also the neighbour at the end of our garden is about to pull his garage down and build a new bungalow just the far side of the boundary fence. It’s going to be noisy. I’m wondering if being 4m further away from the fence might make any building noise (or more long term living noise after someone moves in) less noticeable when I’m working. But is it odd to purposefully put a patio in a shady spot with no view? The view from a patio would be nicer if it wasn’t in the corner. And I could use a big umbrella to make it shady.

Ooo interesting question. My intuitive feeling is B, because it's less formal, less symmetrical, more interesting.
When you say A space for patio is shaded, how shaded? Never gets sun at all or gets couple of hours or dappled by trees? Because if I could make A patio space beautiful and like a little secret garden of it's own I think I'd go B for the patio and have some large plants in pots etc.

I think A would be very shaded. The boundary along the top and right of the garden is a 6ft fence. I’m also in the long term planning to put some trees along the top boundary fence. So a patio at A would be surrounded on 2 sides by 6ft fences and on one side by a garden office. But it would be nice and private.

I guess when the sun is overhead it might get a bit of sun….hard to say because obviously the garden office isn’t there yet so I don’t know how much more shady Area A will be if/when the garden office was to go in space B.

Looking at the orientation, if you put the office in position B will it cast shade over the veg beds thereby reducing your crops?

Possibly. Hadn’t thought of that. Will ask Dh what he thinks as he’s the veg gardener. I think any shade might just catch the nearest edge of the veg plot though. Not the whole thing.

Also, if you have 100ft of garden to play with why does the office have to be at the far end in amongst the veg? Isn't there somewhere else it could go, suitably/subtly screened if necessary.

I’d probably go for A, because I know that if I did B, the space behind the office would become the dumping ground for all sorts of rubbish.

That’s a good point 😁

It’s going to be quite big so I’d prefer it as far away from the house as possible. Garden is long but narrow and I don’t want it dominating the garden nearer the house.