A week today Sunday 20th May at midnight – entry will be closed for Shed of the year 2012!

So get your shed added to readersheds, now – please add a minimum of 2 photos outside and inside but the more the merrier so the public and the judges can make an informed decision on the quality of your shed.

Public voting will start on the 21st May more info on the procedure here

anyway here are a round up of some interesting ones added recently

Return of the Shedi

Shedi Master
Malmesbury, Wiltshire

Rosemary

Lesley Taylor
Allotment Plot East Sussex

Project Office!

mtbmark
Hampshire

The Beach Hut

Mrs. Sharron Smart
Chelveston, Northamptonshire

Cool Runnings Rum Shack

Nick H
Bedfordshire

Center of the universe bar

Jamie blatant
Southwell

Nicola Rose’s Craft Shed

Nicola Cefai
Garden, Cambridgeshire

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You may remember that Vic Reeves, Sarah Beeny, Joanne Harris, Christian O’Connell and author and shed judge Alex Johnson have designed their very own customised outdoor retreats in a range of Cuprinol colour.

Well the highlights video is now live

also you only have until Sunday 20th May to Enter your shed for Shed of the year 2012 – be in with a chance of winning £1000 and the title of “Shed of the year”

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Friend of readersheds, lord of shedworking and long term shed judge Alex – has done a video for our sponsors cuprinol, he was one of the celeb sheddies who created their own perfect shed.

Nice to see alex in one of his signature hats and doing some work with a brush too – Iam sure he is available for commissions

To help publicise Shed of the Year 2012, I recently took part in a special event organised by event sponsors Cuprinol to encourage people to take part in the increasingly popular annual competition. And here’s the video.

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The time has gone so quickly the past few weeks – but now it’s getting serious you now have less than 2 weeks to get your shed onto http://www.readersheds.co.uk – with a few photos and info on your shed build.

Public voting will start two weeks today on the 21st May – each shed page will have a Vote button – so feel free to vote for as many sheds as you want – the votes will not display on the shed pages – I will have them locked up in old safe in my shed.

Once the voting ends – I will tally up the votes for the sheds in each of the categories

 [Normal ] [Eco ] [Garden Office] [Cabin/Summerhouse] [Workshop/Studio] [Unique] [Pub] [Tardis]

and then the winner in each category will then go on to shed of the year judges to make a decision which amazing structure is Shed of the year 2012 and that will be announced during shed Week 2012 – starting July 2nd

The winner will not only get the title of shed of the year – but £1000 prize from our sponsors cuprinol – the runners up will not retreat to their sheds empty handed – they will get some great Cuprinol products to keep their shed in top nick for the coming year.

Shed judges for 2012 are Sarah Beeny , Neil Gaiman, Alex from shedworking, Shed of the year 2011 Winner Jon Earl and me - uncle wilco.

So good luck to entrants old and new, including some of these great sheds added recently – this years quality of sheds has been amazing – each year you sheddies just not only bring your humour and good natured rivalry but your great love of that building down the bottom of the garden – of course we all know which we know is not just that

Seb’s Office

Henry Posner
Windsor

Crafty Palace

Caz
Redhill, Surrey

If Banksy was Skint, The Stencil Shed.

Syd
Malmesbury, Wiltshire

Shed-dingham Palace

Michelle Hides
Bottom of the garden

Shed to Match the Greenhouse

Nigel Walters
Wombleton, N Yorks

Mick’s Cabin

Val Brookes
Garden, South Birmingham uk

The Royal Retreat

Amy Williams
In the Garden, Aiskew, NorthYorkshire

Lily Beach

Nick Munson
Dovercourt Beach

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Closing date for Shed of the year 2012 is Sunday 20th may (add yours now) and I can see the sheddies are thinking of unique ways to show off their sheds.

Sheddie and friend of readersheds Elena Thomas (you may remember she covered a shed in fabric many moons ago.)

Asked me if she could add this large photo to her shed page – due to my lack of foresight (back in 2001) in designing readersheds - it does not look that right – 2013 will be rebuilt from the bottom up and be refelted (I promise)

So I have converted it into panormaic using the clever free software

Panorama of Elena Thomas on CleVR.com

it’s in flash so if you are using an ipad/fone you wont see it sorry , and You need to zoom out first

But if any other sheddies have large sweeping photos of their sheds or videos of your sheds then let me know I will highlight them in the run up to Shed Week..

or are you running a website or facebook page to get those votes in? contact me.

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Blimey where has the year gone – you have just a month left to add your shed for Shed of the year 2012!

• Win £1000 from Cuprinol - add your shed here
• Entry will close May 20th 2012 : Public voting May 21st 2012
• Shed Week 2012 - Starts on the 2nd July 2012, the Shed of the year will be announced during that week.
• Shed judges for 2012 are Sarah Beeny , Neil Gaiman, Alex from shedworking, Shed of the year 2011 Winner Jon Earl and me - uncle wilco.

If you shed is already on readersheds – you just need to make sure you have some photos added to your shed page – ideally a couple of both internal and external shots – so that the public can get a good view of your shed – of course if you have a video of your shed add that as well!

Hare are some recent sheds that give you a flavour to what the sheddies are adding this year – it’s a very wide mix as normal – which shows that the sheds and sheddies from the UK are a brilliant – The pub sheds and unique ones always bring their top shedgame – but the workshop sheds are becoming the new garden offices

The Vintage Motor Works

Martin Prior
Sutton Saint Nicholas, Herefordshire

FRED’S SHED

John Smith
Warwick

Shepherds Hut

Colin Humberstone
Keelby garden, Lincolnshire.

The Bad ‘Elf BBQ Shed

Tony
Morayshire Scotland

Paradise

Simon Lewis
Walled Garden

Arf’s workshop

V Trevitt
Southfields SW19

Mondrian

Peter Ellis
Letterkenny, Ireland

Film Star Shed

David Flack
Hove, Sussex

The Rum Shack

Ann Aken
Back Garden – Suffolk- England

Drinking Hut

Sally Miller
back garden

and of course these sheds are previous winners – a hard act to follow

Shed of the year 2011

Songs from the shed

Shed of the year 2010

More info about the Lady Sarah.

Shed of the year 2009

Kite Cabin

Steven Harwood
Top of the Garden, West

Shed of the year 2008

the rugby pub

tim
garden

Shed of the year 2007

The Roman Temple

Tony
Berkshire U.K.

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Now if seeing me in my shed does not want to make you want to pop into your beloved shed and give it a spring clean ready for entry into Shed of the year 2012 over to readersheds and share your shed- then I don’t know what will

Our Shed of the year sponsors Cuprinol were very brave to let me in front of the camera – so why not take a look & share it with your Facebook friends or use it as deterrent against squirrels attacking your shed.

Message from Uncle Wilco - Shed of The Year Competition

Thanks to James Cuff for his patience creating the video and mrsunclewilco for providing the copious amounts of tea during the shoot.

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