Sheddies We love your sheds but we are still looking for more for Shed Week this year (5th July 2010)

So do you have any neighbours, friends, bikers, work mates who are always going on about their great sheds, well now is the time for them to put their Shed where their mouth is and Share theirs on readersheds.co.uk for this Years competition.

Our judges for Shed week this year include for the 4th year Sarah Beeny and Alex shedworking read about the judges here.

Over the next few weeks I will be announcing a Sponsor for Shed Week 2010, who will be providing a great prize for the overall Shed of the year 2010 winner, so watch this space or keep an eye on Twitter.

We look forward to seeing all the new sheds like these ones added in the last few weeks.

The Unicorn

David Perrott
Darowen

Enigma

Will Parkin
side of garden Nottingham

Shed Motorhead

Dale
Pennsylvania

Cotsmill Garden Offices

Simon Davis
Nr Abingdon

Roger and Alison’s shed

Roger Williams
Hereford

The studio

Dick
Garden in Greenham

Some great examples but we need more Eco Sheds, Garden Offices and Huts (Beach or other) but we welcome all types of sheds.

Add your shed here

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Unfortunately the 1400th has not added any images yet.

but as the owner says

“225+ drinks all for use rather than show collections all on display 350 minitures, 3000 beer mats,350 glasses,60 horsebrasses, 80 branden beer mugs, yard & 1/2 yard of ale,Austrian beer steins, braded whisky sets.A collection of 1000 matcg books, antiques from bar memorabilia. This bar has to be sen to be beleived”

I have emailed them to see if they have any photos, so will let you know.

So here’s some pictures of the last 5 added.

Of course if you are reading this and have not added your shed, get yours entered for shed of the year 2010 now.

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I has an email from Tony the winner of the first Shed of the Year, saying he’s got a new shed! I thought blimey what’s he done this time!

The new shed is another Roman Temple but this one is one-thirtieth full size and it’s built of Lego. There’s even a one-thirtieth version of me standing in front of it.

My son is an architect who found the Roman columns for the front of my full size Roman Temple. They all clubbed together and bought them for me for Christmas. This time he’s designed a model from the Lego Digital Designer web site. You have to specify all the parts and brick colours and you can then buy it as a kit complete with full parts list and illustrated instruction sheets. http://ldd.lego.com/

The new shed has all the details of the original, Roman columns, plaque above the door, green door with black hinges and even a flaming torch in the front. It’s probably not the smallest shed in the world as I suspect someone has a smaller one on their model railway layout.

PS. In company with many of our MPs, my wife says I’ve “flipped” and should designate the shed as my “second home”.

Best Wishes

Tony Rogers

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Just a reminder one of the great prizes for the overall winner of Shed of the year is courtesy of our friends at the Cheese Shed.

They are giving away a Subscription (four boxes over the course of the year) as a prize for Shed Of The Year worth £130 !

Now, if I was just your average cheese-lover-in-the-street (rather than Bovey Tracey’s Leading Shed-based Virtual Cheesemonger), I’d probably love to get a box of cheese turning up at my door. On the assumption that some of you might feel the same, we now proudly present:

the Cheese Shed Subscription.

Simply, this is a way of ordering a regular delivery of cheese from us. In the first week of each month, we’ll be sending out boxes containing about 200g of five contrasting cheeses (as in the Cheese Shed Selection). You’ll get about one kilo in all, and we’ll vary the selection from month to month, so hopefully the contents will always be a delightful surprise!

Also those canny lot have come up with the great Wall of cheese, which shows the wonderful cheeses they supply just think four walls of cheese make a shed.

If you are a company wanting to sponsor either Shed Week and/or “Shed of the year” then please contact me

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We have a few Straw related sheds on the site but these two caught my eye.

Strawdio

The Strawdio was built out of Strawbales and is a hybrid “loadbearing” and timber supported structure. The roof is Wild Flower Meadow sitting on a pond liner. I made it myself with the help of an army of volunteers over 2 years after going on some courses with Barbara of amazon Nails.

the straw bale shed

The owner James does not give much info on the build, only this sheddiebabble!!

May be extended underground at some point to start subterranean ‘base’…actually I would be interested to hear if anyone has used their shed as a starting point to dig underground. If the shed is conceived as a ‘retreat’, then it seems to me that psychologically the next step is to withdraw secretively into the earth itself. No?

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