That’s What She Shed

For a few years now, I’ve been wanting a she shed. I felt that it would be a great addition to my garden. I was constantly pinning ideas on Pinterest. There were a few times we inquired about sheds that people were offering for FREE on FB marketplace. However, nothing worked out because of the condition or the size of them. I was interested in the carriage style sheds, where the double door is in the middle with a window on either side.

Eventually, a coworker of my husband’s was upgrading his shed. He offered it to us for free and we decided to take it and pay for the transporting of it to our house. We had prep work to do first.

The Process

First my husband started by measuring out the footprint of  the shed. Then we dug out the sod a few inches before laying a 3 inch bed of stones. Finally, he placed on pavers in which the shed would sit on.

One July morning, the shed was delivered. That was really neat process to watch. I had in my mind that a flat bed was going to drive into our yard and have it delivered that way, but that was not the case. There’s a such thing as a shed mover and it seemed like there was nothing to it!

Throughout the summer, my husband worked hard to cut out the bad T1-11 (in which we got from a local discount contractor supply business) and replaced it with new. He recapped around the corners and replaced the trim on the door. We replaced the hardware as well. I decided to paint it to match the chicken coop, in which we used Behr- Almond Cream. He painted it using our Graco paint sprayer. I now call the coop and the shed our ‘out buildings’ 🙂

We still need to replace the windows but so far it’s looking so good! It’s shaping up to look like a nice modern farmhouse shed. Enjoy this ‘reel’ I shared on Instagram…

 

 

In the End

After we got the shed situated, I decided I didn’t really need this big shed to myself. We really needed a place to build/make/process all our DIY projects. Since becoming DIYers (which really started when we bought this house) we started taking up the garage with our projects. As you can imagine, this makes it pretty difficult to park a vehicle in your garage. So, I made the executive decision to call this shed our ‘workshop’. We have a utility shed (housing the riding mower, our snow blower, the shovels and rakes, etc. under our deck that I call the actual shed.

Greenhouse Plans

I had been longing for a greenhouse ever since I started my garden and I asked my loving husband if he would build me a lean to shed on the one side of the workshop. It took me so long to post this… it’s been constructed for two years now. We went with a lean to style greenhouse attached to the left side of the workshop shed, facing my garden. We used old windows and an old door. I will share that in a coming post…

 

Thanks for reading,