if you are reading this as google found the words Free shed plans in the headline.. then welcome, otherwise you are a regular reader and clicked as you after a freebie plan to build a shed for next years competition?

The reason for this post is the lack of quality free(or open source) shed designs out there in the interwebs.

But someone who I read and follow is Michael Janzen from Tiny house design and he has put a selection of shedlike plans up for free on his excellent website.. including

5×8 Tiny Market House

This house is intended to be used as a display for artisans at crafts fairs. It could also be adapted for any micro business that needs a small portable building. It’s footprint might be too small to serve as a real tiny house but it might make a nice weekend camping trailer for one or two people.

and the wonderful

8×16 Tiny Solar House

This is a tiny house on a trailer designed to be lived in full-time. It’s designed to be built easily and at a low cost. The plans include a loft large enough for a queen size mattress, a bathroom complete with a shower and composting toilet. The main living are can be configured to the owner-builders needs.

This is what the community is all about… of course you can buy some of the reputable shed shop? (hint I make commission on each sale), but if you provide plans available to all, then let me know and I will feature them, and maybe the shed built will become shed of the year one year!

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The telegraph & South Wales Argos report

An 89-year-old woman faces having her allotment of 30 years taken away by a council because she has started growing flowers instead of vegetables, she said.

Edith Avery said she was told by Rogerstone Community Council that her plot, just a few feet from her back door, would be cleared this week because she had not complied with regulations.

Mrs Avery, of Cefn Road, Rogerstone, near Newport, south Wales, said it was “a shock and a worry” as she was given 14 days to clear the plot – a time limit which ends tomorrow – or the council would arrange it and charge her.

“They said there should be veg on there and I did have veg for years and years, but I’m 89 now and I don’t find it easy so it’s gradually gone over to shrubs and flowers,” the widow said.

“It’s quite well tended, it’s not neglected, but they said they’ve got a list of people who want allotments. There are so many that are unattended and overgrown, but it seems they want this one.”

She said she was not able to speak to the council as a message on its answer phone advised writing a letter.
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Will we reach the 5000 mark for Shed Week?

Some great ones that are slightly odd but wonderful all the same

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SATURDAY JULY 4th UPSTAIRS AT DEMPSEYS, CARDIFF, 8pm till late…

Support from Bec and Beth of the HOT PUPPIES plus DJ, BIG PRIZE quizzes etc etc

Entry £5 (or give us a tenner and we’ll throw in a copy of the album too!)

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According to the Irish examier

NOT everyone can say they built a light aircraft in their garden shed, but that’s exactly what a man from East Cork has done.

You could say it was like putting together an Airfix kit for grown-ups.

It took 51-year-old Peter Sheehy a little over a year to complete and now he can’t wait to get up in the air.

However, before he could achieve his dream, the aircraft had to pass stringent regulations.

Last weekend Peter, who lives in Shanagarry, transported the plane – known as a X Air Hawk – up to Granard, Co Longford, where an aircraft engineer passed it with, pardon the pun, flying colours.

It now has to be flight-tested and, once that is completed, Peter is hoping to take it on a maiden flight to France at the end of next month.

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