Shed Kits Or Shed Plans - Which is Right For You?
We all need our space.
I love my family but I need a little 'me' place.
I started thinking about how to build a shed.
We had the room in the backyard and I kept it tidy, the problem was I didn't know where to start.
I was an electrician by trade and knew nothing about carpentry or sheds.
I just wanted somewhere I could go, listen to my old records in bad stereo, set up a small TV and perhaps read an old book.
I eventually worked out how, after a lot of trial and error, that was a while ago and it has served me well.
There is lots of stuff on the internet about sheds delivered to your door, fully equipped, I knew that wasn't for me.
If you want your own shed, you've got to build it.
Otherwise it's just not the same.
Go for a DIY shed.
You can sit in it with a sense of achievement, it's the product of your own labor and it's saved you money.
As time moves on, you can decorate it with the photos and drawings of your children as they grow older.
The beauty is that everybody knows you built it and will knock before entering.
Before you go off into the woods with a chainsaw, consider shed plans.
Unless you are a carpenter, don't try it from raw lumber, with good plans there should be detailed measurements so you can order it pre-cut from your lumber yard or DIY store.
I've always found it best to rely on the expertise of people who have done it before.
There is never any mileage in re-inventing the wheel.
Someone else may have designed it but it's still your shed, your own place to sit in.
If a bunch of stuff arrives, flat packed, with instructions, it's just not the same.
It's not your shed.
Get the plans and talk to the lumber yard.
At the end of World War Two we had more aluminum than we knew what do with.
It was sold as house cladding, replacement pathways and guess what...
sheds.
Well I, for one, think that the good old Dakotas are made of aluminum and sheds are made of wood.
It's a good structure, it grows with you and your children.
Mine has got some moss on the north side.
My eldest daughter called it pleurococcis (or something).
I'll need to get her to write it down, in my shed.
I've run another cable from the house for the telescope.
I don't know much about astronomy but like looking at the moon.
Sometimes the whole family comes out at night to my shed.
I love my family but I need a little 'me' place.
I started thinking about how to build a shed.
We had the room in the backyard and I kept it tidy, the problem was I didn't know where to start.
I was an electrician by trade and knew nothing about carpentry or sheds.
I just wanted somewhere I could go, listen to my old records in bad stereo, set up a small TV and perhaps read an old book.
I eventually worked out how, after a lot of trial and error, that was a while ago and it has served me well.
There is lots of stuff on the internet about sheds delivered to your door, fully equipped, I knew that wasn't for me.
If you want your own shed, you've got to build it.
Otherwise it's just not the same.
Go for a DIY shed.
You can sit in it with a sense of achievement, it's the product of your own labor and it's saved you money.
As time moves on, you can decorate it with the photos and drawings of your children as they grow older.
The beauty is that everybody knows you built it and will knock before entering.
Before you go off into the woods with a chainsaw, consider shed plans.
Unless you are a carpenter, don't try it from raw lumber, with good plans there should be detailed measurements so you can order it pre-cut from your lumber yard or DIY store.
I've always found it best to rely on the expertise of people who have done it before.
There is never any mileage in re-inventing the wheel.
Someone else may have designed it but it's still your shed, your own place to sit in.
If a bunch of stuff arrives, flat packed, with instructions, it's just not the same.
It's not your shed.
Get the plans and talk to the lumber yard.
At the end of World War Two we had more aluminum than we knew what do with.
It was sold as house cladding, replacement pathways and guess what...
sheds.
Well I, for one, think that the good old Dakotas are made of aluminum and sheds are made of wood.
It's a good structure, it grows with you and your children.
Mine has got some moss on the north side.
My eldest daughter called it pleurococcis (or something).
I'll need to get her to write it down, in my shed.
I've run another cable from the house for the telescope.
I don't know much about astronomy but like looking at the moon.
Sometimes the whole family comes out at night to my shed.
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