Friday, August 14, 2009

The New Shed


We needed to build a shed on our property to keep all of our lawn and garden equipment stored in. Our garage is for cars, but you wouldn't know it. We haven't had a car in the garage since we moved in and it was starting to get really annoying. But, we couldn't do anything until we had a place to move almost 1/2 the garage into. The solution: a 10 x 10 shed kit.

We built the framing for the floor ourselves using 4x4's on the exterior and treated 2x4's up the middle. Then we used 3/4 in. treated plywood for the floor. The shed kit itself went up pretty easily and with help from Mike's Dad, Shaun, and the girls (*wink*), in no time, we had space again. The only thing left to do is to put up the shingles and build a mini-ramp so it's easier to get the riding lawn mower in and out.

All in all, we are pretty happy with it. I think that if we would have built it by hand, we would have made a few design modifications, but the functionality is there, and that's the important part. So, happy shed and happy garage!

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