Shed of the Year winner announced
Shedowners around the world have been on tenterhooks this week as the final round of judging forthe jewel in the shed of National Shed Week - the Shed of the Year competition - has come to a triumphant conclusion.
There was a huge public response to the competition with more than 4,000 votes for over 700 entries in 16 categories, the winners in each category going forward to the grand final.
The winner was chosen by a panel of judges that including television property guru, “shed champion” and sheddie’s favourite Sarah Beeny. “Shed of the Year is a great excuse to wallow in the gorgeousness of all our sheds,” said Sarah, “and aren’t they all fine!”
Sarah is also one of the hot favourites to top our public poll: ‘Who would you like to show around your shed?’ Results of this online vote will be announced on Thursday 5th July.
And now for the news you have all been waiting for: The Winner of Shed of the Year 2007 is
Tony’s Roman temple in leafy Berkshire
Tony describes his shed: “The Roman Temple is a Folly. All the best stately homes can look across their estate and see a temple in the distance. It’s just that this one is a bit nearer to the house, that’s all !” and tony describes himself as Young at heart, semi-retired electronics engineer living in Reading.
“Tony has done what most sheddies would love to do, turn their normal garden shed into a unique building that’s not afraid to stand out from the usual shed crowd,” says Uncle Wilco, head sheddie of readersheds.co.uk
The runners up where
2nd Place Time Girls tardis and in 3rd place the Shed owned by John Hutchinson
Organised by Uncle Wilco from the world-famous www.readersheds.co.uk web site, with help from Alex Johnson, editor of The Shed magazine and www.shedworking.co.uk, the first National Shed Week has been a major success with features in a range of titles including Wales on Sunday, Weekly News, Pink News, Glasgow Evening Times, The Daily Telegraph, Enterprise Nation, and The Gardening Website.
The BBC has got right behind National Shed Week with a major piece on Radio 4’s Women’s Hour and backing from Chris Evans on his Radio 2 show, as well as impressive regional coverage around the country.
National Shed Week also received plenty of international coverage, especially online, from sites such as green lifestyle specialists Treehugger.com as well as the Belleville News newspaper in Illinois where a local resident entered her shed in the competition.
National Shed Week has been sponsored this year by Taylors Garden Buildings
(provider of the First Prize - a new shed), Walton’s Garden Buildings,
Teacher’s Whisky, The Cheese Shed and The Shed magazine.
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we just missed National Shed Week? That there’s a website called Readersheds? That there’s a Shed Magazine? A website called Shedworking? All of the above blogged by the SHEDBLOG? My world is complete - though I’m no fan of the shed that won the Shed of the Year competition - far too unshedlike for my liking: [IMG Front View] Shedowners around the world have been on tenterhooks this week as the final round of judging for the jewel in the shed of National Shed Week - the Shed of the Year competition - has come to a
Nice one and well done Tony BUT Play time over, NOW get on with all those other jobs Lynne wants done.
Mel.
Firstly congratulations to Tony for a very well deserved win for his Roman Temple shed, it is fantastic! I am thrilled to take second place, a great result for TARDIS shed builders everywhere. Thanks to everyone who voted for me and for all the advice and encouragement from TARDIS ReBuilders.
Well done to all the shedowners who took part in the Shed of the Year competition and of course to all the thousands of voters out there who took the time to pick their favourites. I think we have some very welldeserved winners. Also a big shout out to Uncle Wilco for a tremendous amount of hard work in putting it all together and ensuring that sheds were on everybody’s lips this week. Well done everybody.
Thanks to everyone who voted our shed into an honourable third place - justly beaten by the Roman Temple and Tardis, which were both outstanding. And well done Uncle Wilco for organising such a great event, which has advanced the cause of Sheddism immeasurably.
Happy shedding to you all!
As i said in my first ever shedcast.
I would like to thank all the sheddies that make the site what it is and the winners have given the interweb a great insight what can be achieved.
Big shedup to Alex for his help and to the sponsors whose prize incentives to the sheddies give them something back for their hard work!
I’am already thinking about Shed Week2008!.
I will be opening general entries to readesheds.co.uk from Sunday, so if you have a shed that’s not on the site, then you can share it then.
Nice Sheds.
Now I’ve got over the shock of winning I’d like to say a huge Thank You to all those people who voted for my Temple and an even bigger Thank You to those who didn’t ask for money in return for their vote. I will not be changing my lifestyle after this though.
My own favourite shed is shed no. 579, The Captain & Irish’s Shed, 3a Keiran Street Sydney, also known as “The best shed in the southern hemisphere”. Just look at the interior decor. I wish my shed was like that.
What to do now ? I think my project for next year has to be a one-quarter scale model of the pyramids.
Thanks uncle wilco for all your hard work organising and publicising Shedweek.
Tony
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Hi Tony,
Having read about your win in the nationals today I was wondering if you would consider doing a magazine feature about your achievement?
It would be interesting to hear things from your wife’s point of view (given that it is predominantly a women’s readership)
Please let me know if you would be interested!
Kind Regards and Congratulations!
Charlotte (Dalton)
Senior FeatureWriter
Caters News Agency
0121 6161100
In contrast and a million miles away from the simple hermetic life, which I do not hold up as an ideal by the way, take a glimpse at the details of a prize winning shed in Reading Berkshire…inspired by Roman architecture.National Shed Weekindeed?!! Only in Britain!