Thought you might like a few practical details about my shed...it's 8 feet by ten feet and has two windows...one each side opposite to the other...the door is a stable or half door. It sits on lengths of timber which are laid onto a concrete base...
The roof is metal...which ought to be noisy when it rains but it isn't. The roof is fully lined with fibre glass and then has thick plywood on top of that...as have the walls.
Neil...the man who makes and erects these sheds, brought it in sections...it took him and his mate two days to put it up...and if you're thinking of having one for yourself, it is well worth paying a little extra to have it put together for you. They know what they're doing and can manhandle the large sections with relative ease...
I asked for the half-door and for the extra window...now I rather wish I'd had opening windows rather than the fixed ones but it doesn't much matter...and Neil did say he could fit opening windows if I liked at a later date...
It doesn't leak anywhere...it kept totally dry all last winter when we had record amounts of rainfall...it's cool inside on hot days and is easy to heat on winter days with a small electric blow heater...
The electricity supply comes from the cottage...just outdoor cables to provide lights and power for my sewing machine and iron...
Neil made me a worktop which runs the entire length of one side of the shed with shelves underneath it so I can store all manner of stuff away behind the curtain I made for the purpose...
These sheds can come with a small veranda...I'd have liked one but thought it was being a bit greedy...would be excellent for pots of flowers though.
Teresa and Reuben have a shed exactly the same as mine which is more or less opposite near the old Plum tree...theirs is totally different inside though. They bought a bed from Argos...a couple of bedside cabinets from a second-hand store and an off-cut of carpet for the floor...that's where they sleep when they come to visit us. Again their shed is bone dry and fully insulated...
I'll take a photo of the interior of theirs so you can see...
They'd been staying in a very expensive holiday cottage in town...then Reuben bought a small caravan but that was cold and floor began to disintegrate...the shed has been the ideal solution...it also means they can both leave rain jackets and so on behind when they go back home.
We had enough leftover paint for the interiors of both sheds...
What would I have done differently...I'd have had opening windows...and I think I've have had the next size up actually...though Neil does make every shed from scratch so I could have asked for it to be a couple of feet longer...
Mine is furnished with cast-offs...the dresser was in the barn...someone gave it to us and we had nowhere to put it...I sloshed some watery emulsion on it to give it a sort of 'distressed look'...the blue chair was one of half a dozen bought from a car boot sale and spray painted...the table was € 5, also from a car boot sale...
With the cost of the actual shed itself...the concrete base and the fibre glass lining and the plyboard to cover...we paid just over €1,000...that included the delivery and the erection...Neil didn't charge me for the workbench or the shelving. Said he had some wood on his truck.
Because our cottage is so tiny...the sitting-room especially so...the shed has meant I can store and use my craft stuff without having to clear the table everytime we need to eat...having the ambulant oxygen ensures I can still get my breathing under some sort of control...just drag the machine behind me.
My shed has been a godsend.
More Play Space For The Cats And Shed Is Almost Ready...
