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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Shed Judge Lloyd Alter reports on this posh shed.

Susanne Watzeck & Jörg Sturm designed this in 1996 as the “first unit of a space system in which the individual functions living, cooking, washing, sleeping, working are accommodated in separate units.”

However, years later with garden sheds and small spaces being all the rage, it stands on its own quite nicely.

The interior built-ins are quite lovely, with the stools stored away looking like part of the interior. The entire unit is on bearings and may be rotated depending on the sunlight and desired orientation to enable both- climatic conditions, as well as the orientation of the cubes to each other to met different spatial relations.’

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Saw this on our wonderful photo Just Sheds group shed recycling at it’s best

TV screen for a window

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Well I do! and don’t have the time/effort/wossname to get it off the ground for Shed Week 2009.

so I have entered one of those interweb based competitions to win a new design..

It’s run by one of those online companies that are looking for business, so they get blog big shots like John Chow to promote their stuff.

Anyway if you think I deserve a redesign click the big button above.

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We have just reached past the 1500 photos mark..on our Just Sheds group.. I will try and do a weekly post on the great images we have had added my sheddies and future sheddi..

wonderful, from the allotment shed to the post designer wossname.

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This old house reports on these great shedlike houses in Texas, I wonder if the new planning laws would allow one over here!!

Kittel is among a growing group of builders and designers who are challenging the long-standing belief that a bigger house is a better house. But unlike many of his peers in the small-house movement, whose contemporary mod-pod designs seem to be inspired more by the future than the past, Kittel’s approach is decidedly Little House on the Prairie

via

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Those posh sheds are featured in the NYTIMES

THREE years after renovating their 1903 brownstone in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, Greg and Cheyenne Morris turned their attention to their backyard, which contained an odd assortment of disused items — sinks, toilets, Virgin Mary statuettes, wheels from street vendor carts and a moldering stucco garden shed. They cleaned up the yard, made preparations to demolish the shed and asked an architect to draft plans for a free-standing studio to be used as a bedroom and office.

They look happy with their shed anyway

Michael Falco for The New York Times

“It was expensive,” said Mr. Morris, a photographer, who spent $76,000 for a Kithaus with a bathroom, ipe wood deck and louvers, “but it was worth it to not have any more contractors and electricians traipsing through my house.”

The Times also has a great article about Michael Janzen

who has spent the summer building an 80-square-foot “tiny house” out of free stuff he found on Craigslist?

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I was never a big fan of those posh ,glass modern designer sheds, but after see so many great sheds over the past wossname.. I am starting to like them, as long as they are unique and not cookie cutter sheds, of course for most traditional sheddies they are not an option due to the price for these things.

I like this one for instance.

A lot of them tend to be used for offices and the like, but if you see any more of these about, then let me know what you think.

also why not take part in our current shed vote about the next shed you are going to get as a sheddies can’t just have one.

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Last week I blogged about if I won the lottery what my ultimate shed would be, well now John over at Secrets of shed building is running a competition where you can get your ideal shed put onto paper (well working drawings you can use to build your dream shed)

You could have a shed like Tim.

What is your ideal shed? How big would it be? What would you use it for? What details roof, door, windows would you select. In this competition you submit your ideal shed design and for the top design I will produce working drawings to enable you to build the shed of your dreams. An important aspect of this competition is that I’m not asking for the height of architectural sophistication in drawing and presentation. Each entry should be for a shed or garden building up to 15 sq m (150 sq ft). With a written description of what features you would like to see along with a sketch. The judging will be on a combination of the ideas, how well they are written and for the sketch.

The entries can be submitted here on the competition page . Tips on what to include are here on the shed design page.

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