My Cool Shed: An inspirational guide to stylish hideaways and workspaces

This book celebrates the humble and not so humble shed, from artists’ studios to beach huts. my cool shed features 35 sheds, small cabins, garden rooms, beach huts, and modern architectural mini masterpieces given purpose by their owners to pursue their hobbies, careers, creative endeavours or just to find some peace and solitude.

Building on the success of my cool caravan and my cool campervan in 2010 and 2011, this follow-up book celebrates the humble and not so humble shed, from artists’ studios to beach huts, and the diverse ways in which owners are styling them. my cool shed features 35 sheds, small cabins, garden rooms, beach huts, modern architectural mini masterpieces and other small spaces given purpose by their owners to pursue their hobbies, careers, creative endeavours or just to find some peace and solitude. The book includes high-quality stylish photography to show a wide range of well styled and elegant sheds, cabins, dens and hidewaways in attractive locations. The owners’ stories and accompanying style notes offer insight as well as inspiration.

This is not a ’how to’ book, although a sourcebook will be included, but more of a ’feel good’ book and provider of inspiration.

Jane Field-Lewis is a London-based stylist working in photography, film and TV. She is the co-author of my cool caravan and my cool campervan, and the author of my cool shed. She is also the creator and creative consultant and stylist behind the hit C4 series Amazing Spaces. She has an enduring love for both people and style, believing the two are closely entwined. Her career is based on the aesthetic, whether high- or low-style, natural or created, and across people and objects. She has, of course, had a great many kitchens, ranging from her tiny vintage caravan to her current kitchen in the basement of her London home.