Last Year, I decided to open up the old fireplace in our living room.
The appeal of sitting around the fire, listening to the logs cracking in the flames was strong and the whole family was looking forward to enjoying cosy winter evenings.
However, the reality was something different.
The logs I had piled up in the yard quickly got wet when it rained and they were almost impossible to get burning.
I needed some storage and I needed it really bad.
Earlier this year, I started looking for a set of firewood storage shed and eventually I found the ideal plans for me.
The first thing I did was to make sure that the plans contained a list of all the timber sizes I would need to build the shed.
It looked like a fairly straightforward design, as it was basically three sides and a roof.
I took the list to my local hardware store and got them to give me some prices.
Then I went to a lumberyard and got them to do the same.
I was delighted to find that the lumberyard could reduce the price by a good twelve percent over the hardware store.
It certainly pays to shop around nowadays.
Next, I checked the plans to see how to go about building my shed.
I had to build a waterproof floor, which was quite simple to do according to the plans.
First, I had to lay down some strong plastic sheeting and then cover the sheet with dry cinders.
Then I just had to assemble the timber parts to form the sides and roof.
This was also easy, as the lumberyard had already cut all my timbers to size for me using the list supplied with the plans.
Once it was finished, all I had to do was stack my logs inside it.
I can honestly say that the logs are kept nice and dry now, and we enjoy a roaring log fire on winter evenings.