Real women. Real businesses. Inspiring spaces of their own.
Across New Zealand, women are turning their ideas, skills and passions into thriving home-based businesses and many are doing it from a SheShed cabin in their own backyard. Behind every cabin is a different story: a photographer creating a welcoming studio for her clients, a hairdresser opening a private home salon, a florist hosting workshops surrounded by flowers and natural light, a beauty therapist designing a peaceful treatment room, an upholsterer restoring well-loved furniture or a pet groomer caring for our four-legged friends. These are real New Zealand women building real businesses in backyard workspaces designed around the way they want to live and work. For many, starting a home-based business is about more than keeping overheads low. It is about creating greater freedom and flexibility, balancing business with family life and building a career without spending hours commuting.
A dedicated SheShed cabin gives your business a professional place to belong, just a few steps from your back door. It can provide the confidence to turn an idea into something real, whether you are welcoming your first client, photographing your first product, hosting your first workshop or taking the next exciting step in an established business.
From a quiet home office or consulting room to a hair salon, beauty studio, wellness space, floristry workshop, dog-grooming room or creative studio, your cabin can be designed around the way you work and styled to reflect your brand. It gives you room to focus, welcome customers, store equipment, create products and grow your business without taking over your home. When the working day is over, you can simply close the door and enjoy the freedom of working from home - without the daily commute or cost of leasing a commercial space.
This page celebrates the inspiring women who have created something special from home. Through their stories, we step inside their home offices, salons, studios and workshops to discover what inspired them and how they transformed their SheShed cabins to suit their businesses. From light-filled photography studios and calming beauty treatment rooms to practical creative workshops, every space is different. What connects these women is the courage to begin, the determination to grow and the belief that a successful business can start in your own backyard.
After two decades of happily working alongside her employer in the city, Belinda felt ready for a new challenge and the opportunity to put her passion for creating beautiful spaces into action. Like many of us, she had seen the familiar saying about spending so much time working to pay for a home you barely […]
When Jo, an experienced interior designer from New Zealand, sought to create a dedicated space for her growing business, she found the perfect solution in the SheShed Ranch Cabin. With its appealing design, easy-to-assemble kit, and versatile functionality, the Ranch Cabin offered everything Jo needed to establish a stylish and functional studio that not only […]
In the heart of Queenstown, Amy found the perfect solution to transform her hairdressing business. With a vision of creating a warm and welcoming salon environment, Amy chose SheShed to bring her dream to life. Here’s her inspiring journey of turning a kitset cabin into a thriving salon. Finding the Perfect Fit When Amy began […]
Based in sunny Nelson, New Zealand, Kathy decided to go on the hunt to find the perfect cabin or shed that could allow her to work independently from home and practice her life coaching business. After comparing many other options, Kathy settled on SheShed as she loved the quality of the product, the tailored customer […]
Gaining quite a bit of popularity now that she has made her hair dressing salon bolder and better with her 12 square metre Cabana Cabin, Lisa from Waves Hair Salon is back almost a year later since she first opened her doors to customers! We are loving how the whole look of this Mediterranean inspired […]
Based in Christchurch, best friends Amanda and Catriona decided to do create something rather spectacular! They ventured out to do something brave and independent from their very own backyard - opting for the trustworthy and spacious 3m x 4m Cabana Cabin to start their journey, and they have never looked back! Amanda and Catriona knew […]
Wendy is a very busy woman who is planning to make some new innovations in the food and beverage sector. She is motivated to create something new in a well established industry and is a huge advocate for new beginnings for businesses and organisations. To help her create her business headquarters, Wendy opted to build […]
Emily created a beautiful work-from-home floral studio using our 3x3m Star Cabin kitset. Being able to create from her own space, has created more structured time for work and spending time with her young family.
A wooden studio perfectly perched, looking out to the vines and rolling hills of the beautiful Upper Moutere in Tasman.
Courtney Jensen, the owner & creator behind Wild Violet Handmade had to make the decision during the Covid pandemic to close her brick and mortar store, but she wasn’t quite done with her business... “We decided to utilise the space we had at home. So I found SheShed online and thought it would be perfect […]
“A private studio for my unique type of hairdressing as a curl specialist for naturally curly hair.” Donna created a beautiful space to bring her hairdressing clients into. Once her cabin had been built, she took the necessary measurements and found equipment that would perfectly fit the space, including the basin which is nestled in […]
We built the She Shed for me to use as my interiors studio. I work as an interior designer specialising in beautiful finishing touches and gifts for children, and I use the studio to create and make products to sell in our business.
Perhaps you have been working from the dining table and are ready for a dedicated home office. Maybe your business is growing, you would like to welcome clients at home, or you have an idea you are finally ready to explore. Whatever stage you are at, a SheShed home business cabin can give you room to take the next step. Choose from a range of cabin sizes and styles, then personalise the interior, colours, layout and finishing details to create a professional backyard workspace that feels unmistakably yours.
Because when you have the right space, there is room to focus, room to create and room for your business to grow.
Your idea. Your business. Your space.
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