Office pods – office pod kits
There is an ever-increasing demand for home office pods due to more people being able to work from home or run a business from home. Most homes were not designed with a separate study room or even a study nook. People want a separate home office where they can work without distraction, and where visitors can come without passing through the domestic environment. Another advantage to building your own office is being able to rough-in electrical and service cabling during the construction process for outlets exactly where you want them. You can have Scandi-style office pods (marine ply lining instead of plasterboard), Hamptons-style (VJ lining boards painted white), or classic (plasterboard painted any colour you like). Choose from more than 20 exterior Colorbond colours, go with or without eaves, add a deck and veranda, any detailing to look trendy in your backyard. There can be taxation advantages to having a separate home office building (but you would need to get specific advice about your situation). Office pods from Backyard Pods have been built in all sizes throughout NSW, VIC, and SE QLD – Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Gold Coast, and elsewhere. Some home offices have a powder room or ensuite, and perhaps a kitchenette, while others are just simple plain rooms for extra space. While small office pods are usually devoted to deskwork, larger ones can also function as a combination guest cabin, hang-out room, etc. Another option to consider is having a portable office pod, when this is needed, and it simply means erecting the structure onto skids instead of piers (ask us for more info). You can get an office pod kit to erect DIY or simply have everything completed for you. Browse our examples of freestanding office pods, home office extensions, portable offices, and multi-purpose home office buildings.
Office pod designs and examples
Our customer at Balgownie, near Wollongong NSW, took on their 2.6m x 4m home office construction as an owner-builder project. The unusual choice of Colorbond® Surf Mist with contrast detailing in Colorbond® Monument produced a sharp-looking, personalised result.
You may love where you live but just need a little extra space to focus on work or study, do some yoga, have guests for a sleepover, or let your hair down with a band rehearsal.
The cost of extending an established home to create an extra room is usually prohibitive, yet many people living in the inner-city need just a little extra space to work from home in peace and without disruption to family life.
Normally, decks are not engineered to support another building on top of them. So, when people want to add a room (like a home office) onto the top of an existing deck, it’s not normally doable. Luckily, our customer at Noosaville, on the Sunshine Coast, found Backyard Pods.
Our customer wanted a low-cost home office pod against the boundary fence (usually a no-no) and erected on skids, as a portable building, so they could relocate it in the future.
When our customers in Bald Hills, a suburb of Brisbane QLD, needed a spacious home office and rumpus room 3.6m x 8m in their backyard, it wasn’t as easy to start building as they first thought. This approved home office and rumpus room added value to the property at a lower cost using a flatpack building kit from Backyard Pods.
A stunning WFH backyard office pod home extension at West Ryde, Sydney NSW, features a 3m x 6m kit from Backyard Pods in Colorbond 'Deep Ocean' colour - a great example of using bold exterior colours for a contemporary architectural statement.
Backyard Pods normally have our foundation piers elevating the flooring structure above ground level. Where an existing slab is dry and suitable, some customers successfully anchor the integrated flooring (for structural integrity) to their slab. Our customer in Canberra sat their Backyard Pod on a slab and it looks very sleek in 'Night Sky' with black accents.
Mark, a successful financial advisor in the Blue Mountains NSW, came to Backyard Pods wanting a low-cost, professional-looking home office building where his clients would feel comfortable visiting. After waiting 15 years for his home-office dream to finally come true, Mark loves his new office with country-style veranda and his clients are very impressed!
Many people need a small WFH office pod. Others have grand designs for getting more value out of their backyard with their business ideas. Our mindful customer from Dandenong wanted two pods side-by-side for their own ‘women’s wellness centre’. With our help to organise approvals and construction, these twin multi-purpose rooms were fully completed for our customer. The actual build time was only 2 weeks!
