This summer, the big project was to build a shed. We have various other large projects around the house we’d like to get done, so we are trying to knock them off each year. Things like a bigger deck, redo the kitchen, master bathroom (maybe :)), etc. This year we decided on the shed so that we could use our garage again for parking.
It went pretty well. I decided to do it myself to save some money and I enjoy learning about and doing those types of things myself. I took a week off in the summer and went at it, 5 or 6 days straight. I did a little bit of work before hand on a couple of weekends, buying some wood, digging out and flattening the plot, putting together the floor joists. That was about it, until the solid week of working on it. I purchased the plans online from a site called hometime.com. Specifically the plans I purchased are here. Not bad, for $8.95 I received three very large professional-grade blueprints, with 5 different size layouts. We chose 10×16. They were pretty easy to follow. I would definitely recommend them.
I think it came out well, take a look at my picture album. At various times throughout the week I had my neighbor up the street help out, my neighbor next door and my father came in from Buffalo as well. It definitely wasn’t easy, but now after its built and stained, it feels good to have built it. We even decided to tweak the plans ourselves and throw the door on the broad side as opposed to the end. I think it looks much better that way, and the door can now be seen from our house and it gives it a nice touch.
After it was built my other neighbor hollered over to me “you didn’t build a shed, that’s a barn!” Yeah, I’d have to agree, it was a bit bigger than I anticipated. I knew how much floor space I was getting, but man, its tall. There is a lot of storage up top inside. It’s really great, I am extremely proud of it. And thanks to the drive of my wife and the help of my friends and my father, it wasn’t too bad to build. And now we’ve filled it up and my wife can park in her garage, and I have a spanking new shed to throw my stuff in and put a work bench in someday…hopefully soon.
