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Hello

We’re in the process of building a garden office. It will be triangular in shape, with one side being a sliding glass door.

We make extensive use of Sonos throughout the rest of the house so have been thinking through the best options given the odd-shape of the space.

Mostly will be listening to Spotify as background music whilst working at the desk.

Some thoughts:

  1. 1x Play Five, set horizontal (red dot on diagram) at desk height.
  2. 2x Play Ones, set at either end of the corner desk (blue dots)
  3. 2x In-ceiling Speakers, set either as the green or purple dots

I’d be very grateful for any advice or other recommendations/considerations.

Thanks in advance - diagram below.

 

For background music, you can’t go wrong with either of those options. I think the best overall sound would be the Five or pair of Ones. The in-ceiling speakers would be the cleanest option but also the most expensive since you would also have to purchase a Sonos Amp to power them.

On the basis you use Sonos extensively presume you use Sonosnet, how do you plan on getting it hooked up to the rest of your Sonos network?

Good question - planning to run a network cable out to the garden office to support the computer and thus should be able to connect in the device. 
 

Hoping that will work. 

Good question - planning to run a network cable out to the garden office to support the computer and thus should be able to connect in the device. 
 

Hoping that will work. 

Excellent, for the minimal cost run two, a single cable will either break or go faulty. Two will always work 😀

It may not be a factor where you live, but one thing you might not have considered is soundproofing. Ceiling speakers in that type of location will be hard to do in a way that doesn’t propagate quite a lot of sound outside, assuming it’s a single storey with a flat roof.

It may not be a factor where you live, but one thing you might not have considered is soundproofing. Ceiling speakers in that type of location will be hard to do in a way that doesn’t propagate quite a lot of sound outside, assuming it’s a single storey with a flat roof.

Good point - yes will be single storey with flat roof. I’ll probably avoid the ceiling speakers in that case.

Good question - planning to run a network cable out to the garden office to support the computer and thus should be able to connect in the device. 
 

Hoping that will work. 

Excellent, for the minimal cost run two, a single cable will either break or go faulty. Two will always work 😀

Good call - yes will ask electrician to double up.

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