article_snippet: If an Englishman’s house is Englishman’s castle, Englishman’s garden shed is Englishman’s fortress: a refuge that has nurtured many a seedling and saved many a marriage.
article_snippet: But today a mere shed is not enough.
article_snippet: It was then time – with help from Sherborne’s Castle Gardens – to dress my new man cave: an orange tree, a fig and a fern, table and chairs, a ghetto-blaster and, more crucially, a wine-cooler.
article_snippet: but there is one drawback: it is completely transparent.
article_snippet: after a secret doze or a hush-hush hideaway for your home brew, this is not for you.
article_snippet: If you can ignore the sickly reek of new PVC, this weather-proof quasi-sauna is a little idyll.
article_snippet: At 12ft across, this is a roomy space to make of what you will: the perfect sci-fi housing for a paddling pool or hot tub, as long as you don’t mind looking like a slightly comical extra from Blake’s 7.
article_snippet: But you could, this Easter, do a great deal worse than this budget version of the glasshouse retreat:
article_snippet: my new dome-office-come-sweat-lodge.