A cabin is a quiet place to escape, switch off and reset. Virginia Woolf had her potting shed in East Sussex, Le Corbusier spent summers in Le Cabanon, a beach hut that he built on the Côte d’Azur, and more recently David Cameron penned his memoirs in a Cotswolds shepherd’s hut.
The pandemic — and adjusting to life after it — undoubtedly increased the demand for these simple retreats, with many more people working from home and a surge in staycations. So it’s no surprise that Brits started to look outside their four walls for space-saving solutions, and something one step up from a soulless shed. Another contributory factor has been a rise in the number of “boomerang kids” moving back in with their
