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Back Yard ADU - Seattle, WA
A backyard ADU for a Seattle graphic designer who needed to 'get away from the family to get some work done'. Alas, though permitted, he never followed through. I wish I had one...
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Garden Shed in the Winter
A friend of mine wanted to build a garden shed that brought some whimsical modern elements to their landscape. This shed accomplishes that on the design side, but also enables for passive...
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Board and Batten Shed
1 commentCustom 8'x10' board and batten storage shed with a gable roof, angle cut rafter tails and eave brackets.
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Storage Shed
This is our Storage Shed. I designed it in 2003 after we purchased this property. Built it the following year after a lengthy permit & variance odyssey. Approximate size is 440sq.ft floor area...
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Storage Shed
Originally conceived as a storage shed for lawn equipment, this backyard building has become a place to store an endless pile of construction debris and tools from the many projects that...
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Modern cedar shed
Our home is a flat-roofed midcentury modern design, so when it came time to build a shed, the roof needed to be flat (or nearly flat) to fit with our house style. I chose to use 6 by 6 timbers...
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Backyard Garden Shed
Functional with character. Nestled in the backyard foliage of a coastal North Carolina home, lies this recently constructed garden tool shed. Drawing off both design and...
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Garden Shed - known as 'Little Girl'
1 commentThe garden shed is utilized for gardening tools, plant food and fertilizers, and our bee keeping supplies. It becomes a storage shed for patio furniture during the colder months. The...
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Modified Better Barns 12x16 Plan
I purchased Tauntons "How to build a shed" several years ago and I really liked the 10x16 cedar sided plan so I looked up Better Barns online and ended up purchasing the 12x16 plywood sided plan. I...
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Pink Potting Shed
1 comment8'x10' Custom Potting Shed by Historic Shed. The shed complements a 1920s residence, mimicking the jerkinhead roof shape, rounded rafter tails and arched doorway of the main house.
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Hipped Shed
8'x12' Custom hipped roof shed designed to complement a historic American Foursquare residence in Florida designed and built by Historic Shed. The shed has bead board eaves and a door design that...
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Bungalow Shed
Custom 10'x14' home office shed designed to complement a 1923 bungalow in Florida by Historic Shed. The interior was finished with bead board ceiling, board and batten walls and wood floor. The shed...
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Storage Shed
1 commentThis is my owner built 8' by 13'4" Storage Shed with a loft lumber storage area. The roof is a Gothic Dairy Barn style. Roof sheathing is 1/2" plywood which was wet down so it could be bent to shape...
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Storage shed
This was my first shed project. It is 10'x12' and stands just over 11 feet tall at the ridge of the roof. The shed is built on a 4" thick concrete slab, the dimensions for the structure...
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Little Vermont Barn
A client, Tom Morrow, build this new shed-sized pole barn for his Vermont homestead. The loft, proportions, details and red paint make it fit in with traditional barns and outbuildings in the area...
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A Shed for a Modern Glass House
After Fivecat Studio completed a full restoration of a 1969 modern glass house, our client requested that we design an enclosure for the pool equipment and a new storage shed. It turned out to be...
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From Playhouse to Shed
Every time we visited Costco, our twins would marvel at the large play structures on display. By the time they were 6, they had made a pretty compelling argument that a play structure of their own was a "necessity".
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The Queen's Magical Shed.
Once upon a time there was a shed. It sat amongst the trees on the edge of a beautiful green kingdom. It wasn't a normal shed and by shed standards was strange and awkward. The queen did not want the...
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Cedar Dovecote/Potting Shed
This potting shed was designed last year to compliment a client's historic homestead and Century Farm in the Shenandoah Valley. The shed is of heavy timber construction and built atop the...
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OUR GARDEN SHED
Our garden shed started with a sketch by my wife . That was all the plans I needed to construct the 8' x 12' shed . Most of the material used is salvaged. Some of the features are top hinged...
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post & beam shed
frame post & beams are rough sawn 4" x 4" and the sheathing is 1" x 12" ship lapped
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Coastal Shed
1 commentI designed and built this shed to be highly functional, low maintenance (New England winters are killers) and pleasing to the eye. The 12/12 roof provides ideal space for a storage loft and helps...
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Cedar Wood Shed
3 commentsI've been dreaming about a cedar shed to store my firewood for the Winter and finally got around to building one last year. I'm a woodworker, not a carpenter, so working in such a large scale...
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Shed
5 commentsThe shed was built on a skid foundation of two redwood 6'' by 6''s with 7'' by 3''s 14'' o/c for the floor joists and 3\4'' T+G OSB for the floor. The floor is insulated with sheets of ridgid 2...
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The Shed
2 commentsThis is where the lawn mower lives. We have never really gotten along, and about a year ago he became really depressed about our relationship. I figured the best way to make amends was with a new...
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Garage Progress
We're making good progress on the garage shop at the project house. Drywall is hung, carriage doors are installed and the new front facade has been painted. read more
