The Blackdown Meridian Workspace Shepherd Hut

Meridian Workspace Hut

 

Does this sound familiar? You rush through breakfast, with the hubbub of family life ringing in your ears and you know that the email melee for the day is about to begin.

How about if you could stroll down the garden, setting the lights and the music up as you go, unset the alarm and walk straight into your very own office – whether your office is a traditional desk and laptop setup or a studio designed for creative projects.

Imagine this. A Blackdown bespoke-made rise and fall desk greets you, complete with your Arne Jacobsen Series 7 chair just beckoning you to come and sit down.

With the printer and cupboards behind you, everything you need is at hand. Just a short reach away is that other office essential, the coffee machine, with a Quooker tap poised to deliver boiling water on an ‘as and when’ basis, and the fridge neatly concealed in the drawer below.

Gaze out of the full width glazed windows opposite your desk or relax in the comfy seating area, designed to be a space to sit and muse whilst enjoying the warmth from the Everhot electric stove, as it gently warms your lunch. For the full on relaxation experience, dim the lights with your phone controls and set the mood with some lo-fi chill playing out through the colour-coded Gallo speakers.

As the day ends it’s time to push the chair away from the desk, activate the outside lights and head back into the home world – safe in the knowledge of a days work well done.

The full width end window on the Blackdown Meridian office shepherd hut
Meridian Office Hut from Blackdown Shepherd Huts

Blackdown has been making shepherd huts since 2011 and over that time, we’ve learnt a lot from our customers about how they like to use their shepherd hut space. Our new Meridian workspace hut has been designed and built by us to provide a Blackdown solution to the need to work from home in a purpose-built beautiful office or studio space. The  

When we designed our Meridian hut, we had the following in mind:

• An escape, yet a home-from-home,
• A hideaway, yet with views aplenty
• Everything in its place and a place for everything
• Space for you, and space for them
• A Heritage space, with bang up-to-date technology
• An Ergonomic design, but supremely comfortable

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You'll find space for work space essentials like a coffee machine in the Meridian office shepherd hut
 

The Blackdown Workspace Shepherd Hut is available in 14, 16 and 18 foot options and is 7 foot 6 inches wide.

The standard Workspace Shepherd Hut comes with the following:

  • Metal chassis and our painted metal cladding
  • Oak steps
  • Hardwood painted windows and doors
  • Oak floor
  • Electrics
  • Standard light switches and fittings
  • Internal decoration with Farrow & Ball inspired colours

We have a useful range of exceptional optional packages you can add to the standard build, including Entertainment pack, Security & Lighting pack and a Hospitality pack.

 

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Your hut will be ready and transported to you on your delivery date
And then the story of your hut will belong to you…

“We’re delighted with our hut. The craftsmanship is faultless and it looks and feels fantastic. It’s a really nice extension to the family home and garden. George and Will have been a pleasure to deal with from start to finish – they’re extremely flexible, responsive and serve their customers with total honesty and integrity.”

Adrian Hall

Dear Blackdown Shepherds Hut Team - and what a Team!

To start with, Thankyou for my beautiful Shepherds Hut.

From Conception to Construction to Completion it has been a huge success - interwoven with great Communication.

Your attention to detail and being open to new ideas, but still keeping to the ethics of a working Hut is wonderful. - Harry the cat will be for ever greatful for his personal entrance - but will not thank me unless I construct a means of getting up and down!!!

The hamper of traditonal Somerset goodies was a very touching and well thought out touch - thankyou.  Shared out with new neighbours and strangers who helped out on delivery day - My Shepherds Hut has attracted a steady stream of interested passers by - may be you should give me a bundle of Blackdown complement slips I can give interested people? - A Shepherds Hut warming party is in the pipe line - will let you know.

Thankyou again and it still gives me a BIG smile!!!!

Andy and Sue

Afternoon, I hope all is well.

I am very sorry for any delay in reverting to you on the testimonial which in no way is a reflection of what we feel about the hut!!

As you know when we first met I was sceptical about whether a hut would be even possible in my preferred location, never mind practical and I also had to convince Lisi that it was sensible present to myself. We had been looking at a rival company’s brochure and had pretty much dismissed the venture.

By chance we came across Blackdown and on a free weekend thought we would drop in, just to see. From the outset, the quality of the product on display and the options available reignited my excitement at the prospect. However it was your can do attitude and friendly optimism that really assuaged our concerns and persuaded us to proceed.

Throughout the design and build programme nothing appeared to be too much trouble for you and your enthusiasm ensured that we really enjoyed the process. Even Lisi was won over!!

The big test was really the delivery and managing to instal the hut giving the big logistic difficulties of the site. This went without, so far as I could see, any hitch and was an achievement in its own right.

Six months on the hut is a huge asset to our life and lifestyle. It was thoroughly enjoyed throughout the summer and now that the winter is here, with a small heater installed, it provides a luxurious retreat and haven from TV soaps and dancing programmes! I cannot begin to praise how much added value the hut has given us as well as being a pleasure for just ourselves but also for entertaining friends and neighbours. In short, the hut has proved a brilliant and unqualified investment success. Many thanks to you and all the Blackdown team with whom it was a real pleasure to work.

We wish you all the very best for a very successful future. It is well deserved.

Kind regards.

Jon and Lisi

All I really want to convey is that we are absolutely delighted with our Blackdown Shepherds Hut.  It is exactly what we were looking for, and the service provided by Jamie, Alan and crew from start to finish was first class.  Need I say more?

Best wishes

Rosamund Moynan

It was all excellent from start to finish. The options were clearly explained, the choices made and the journey started. The backup was there if we needed it and when I did make a mistake (I forgot to order a floor but in my haste used some of the wall boards on the ceiling and ceiling boards to form the floor) we quickly realised what was wrong and worked through to a sensible solution (I sourced some similar timber boards from my local builders merchant).

The McClung Clan

We rate Blackdown! Excellent pre and post delivery service. The quality of all the materials from the cast iron wheels to the oak steps are first class. Good attention to detail in the design and all the materials and fixings, with spares, were delivered in one consignment. I would recommend Blackdown for their first class design and quality of their shepherds huts.

Sarah and Mark

Delivery was exactly as promised, Rich arrived and we decided to unload outside the house then tow the self-build through with our small tractor. Customer service was great from the very start from when we went on line to view the options, and useful video clips to meeting at Blackdown to go through the options and see the build process. We needed basic drawings to approach the planning authorities which Alan emailed to us. The excellent self-build instructions and the video were really helpful. During the build we had a few questions which were clarified same day. We liked the friendly approach, the design quality, the instruction support, the oak cladding, the double door design. Although the self-build option clearly saves some money it is also a lot of fun and a great sense of achievement with many new skills learnt.

Glyn

I am very pleased I took the decision to build a Blackdown Shepherd Hut. It is a quality product that will last for years and grow with the family. It is a good discussion topic within family and down at the pub, and kept me busy for five months. We will be commencing celebration visits from all around to inspect the hut from next week. It has already received very positive feedback from neighbours watching the construction. We are really starting to enjoy it – sitting on the veranda watching the sheep in adjacent field – doing what it was intended for.

Ian Hunter

We most like the joy our Shepherd Hut brings other people, the looks on their faces when they arrive and the amazing comments about how much they loved their stay. Blackdown Shepherd Huts were highly recommended to us for their quality and customer service, we wanted to support a local business and our research confirmed this. Alan was really approachable and friendly and talked us through the options available. We opted for a self-build kit as we were feeling confident of our skillset. The first week provided a steep learning curve but Will was very willing to offer the benefit of his experience. Five months later we welcomed our first guests.

Esme