As you know I am not the most practical person but I do get asked regularly where sheddies can get plans for sheds, there are not a great amount of choice in the UK, well there are lots of shedplans on that ebay, but not much elsewhere (contact me unless you know otherwise)

I have found this great little plan over at myhobbystore if anyone is interested

A single pitch roof on a sawn timber frame covered in shiplap make this an easy piece to build – a very useful piece as a small workshop or store

The haynes manual about sheds has some plans in also

Haynes moves into the garden with this step-by-step guide to constructing an imaginative variety of outdoor buildings, including sheds, greenhouses, pergolas, decking and even homes for dogs, rabbits and birds. Containing clear colour photographs and detailed plans and diagrams.

American Sheddies have more choice for shed plans via Myshedplans.com and the like

and here are the ebay plans, good luck sorting these!

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A great build over at instructables.com

My middle school class designed and built a basic prototype for a house made of pallets. The pallets are for the basic wall structure, and other materials can be used as sheathing, the floor, roof, etc. With a little imagination the builder can fill in the gaps.

One inspiration was Alexander Saunder’s op-ed piece in the New York Times about helping victims of a 2005 earthquake in Pakistan. His piece “Give Them Shelter ” suggested buying garden sheds from Sam’s Club en mass and dropping them into isolated regions. It is an interesting idea.

We also used several sites dedicated to a “Tiny House” movement, which we first saw in a local piece “Stuck in Vermont “. Tiny houses are houses about ten-feet by ten-feet and intended to be lived in (windows, loft beds, water and the like). There are many other sites dedicated to the movement. This movement, in turn, was inspired by Thoreau and Walden , which we read excerpts from. Many of these sources stressed simplicity and self-reliance. They also dovetailed with groups looking to solve the problems of homelessness and the environment.

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We have some great sheds on readersheds that are used for Museums!

Colne Valley Postal History Museum

Steve Knight
Halstead, Essex

Museum Shed

mary Leahy
Rear of Garden

Sanctuary

Nigel Pettyfer
Bishops Sutton, Hants

The Bygones Museum

Darren Stride
GT Yarmouth, Norfolk

The Ariel 3 Motorcycle Museum

Andrew Mulcahy
Brislington, Bristol

Museum Shed

Andy
Brighton

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A nice example of recycled old shed thats being used as a workshop from one of our every increasing international Sheddies.

The Vespiary

Audra Loyal
Missoula, Montana, USA
Workshop

My shed was built over the course of summer 2009. Most of the materials came from the old existing shed, plus materials from Home Resource, a local construction recycling store. Any new material we used, we tried to get local. Most of our wood was locally milled and over half of the insulation is locally grown wool. A good friend of mine was the contractor, and my partner and I were the labor. I learned a ton about construction – everything from permitting to roofing.

I’ve been blogging the process here: http://thevespiary.com/blog/category/remodel/

My shed is the new home of my business, The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery. Before, I was working at my kitchen table. I love this new space. I was able to move my entire library in and now I have a fantastic reading loft. Cup of coffee, good book, cat, snow falling… perfect.

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New user Danny on our shed forum just asked this.

I am building a 1.8m x 2.4m shed on a concrete base. I am using a timber frame made from 100mm x 50mm at 500mm centres. I am using shiplap timber which is 12mm thick and 125mm width and was wondering how many screws should I use when attaching the shiplap to the timbers. Should i also have a timber gravel board around the bottom of the shed, so its eaiser to replace if the bottom board rots .My base is sitting about 80mm above the ground and Ill have guttering to take the water away. thanks in advance

If you can help him then post a comment here or on the forum.

photo credit: meonomous

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