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tag: shed

UnderDeck Storage Shed

DeckGuy, member | April 18th, 2012

What better way to save space in your back yard than to build your shed under your second story deck?

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Tool Shed

aw, member | April 2nd, 2012

A charming tool shed built by Randy Fleming of Mineral Point, Wisconsin. Inspired by Japanese architecture, it shares a backyard with the Tea House, also posted. The foundation is native limestone...

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How to Calculate Rafters for Intersecting Roof Planes the Easy Way

TheTimberTailor, member | January 26th, 2012

Using SketchUp as a visual calculator can simplify rafter layout for intersecting roof planes. While common rafter layout is fairly quick and straightforward using a framing square and construction calculator watch this video to see how easy it is to layout a non-typical rafter.

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Back Yard ADU - Seattle, WA

jarchitect, member | October 6th, 2011

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

RichardKing, member | August 25th, 2011

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

HistoricShed, member | August 22nd, 20111 comment

Custom 8'x10' board and batten storage shed with a gable roof, angle cut rafter tails and eave brackets.

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Storage Shed

Matthiasi, member | August 12th, 2011

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

91hokie, member | August 12th, 2011

  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

Aaron, member | August 11th, 2011

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

ajmeyers, member | August 6th, 2011

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'

TLBSTB, member | August 2nd, 20111 comment

The 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

Brad_Nailer, member | August 2nd, 2011

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

HistoricShed, member | August 1st, 20111 comment

8'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

HistoricShed, member | August 1st, 2011

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

HistoricShed, member | August 1st, 2011

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

PhilBowman, member | July 29th, 20111 comment

This 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

tcblithil, member | July 28th, 2011

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

DonBerg, member | July 28th, 2011

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

Fivecat, member | July 27th, 2011

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

JoshVT, member | July 25th, 2011

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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