Day Eight-eighty-one: a shed in a day

Lovely weather made it too tempting not to tackle an outdoors project that has been on our minds for months. With the garage turning into a regular workshop we decided that we might want to move some of the non-project items out of it to make more room. Basically this means evicting the garbage cans and lawn tools (mower, edger, seed spreader, etc.). Luckily we have a nice, level place behind our garage that used to have a rickety old tin shed. It's our storage place for rocks, bricks, etc. that we don't have an immediate use for.

We'd gone back and forth on what sort and size of shed to get and did we want wood or plastic. After toying with the idea of two small sheds (one for garbage and one for the lawn stuff) we realized that we'd much prefer one larger shed for everything. This little beauty had been on our radar for some time so when the price dropped we jumped at the chance. One thing that two small sheds had going for it was ease of getting them home from Home Depot. Fortunately, our local HD rents flatbed trucks so cleared up how to get 350 pounds of shed home.

Once out of the boxes the shed seems more shed-like, if only two dimensional.

And here's the final product, 3+ hours later. We realized after the fact that we should have taken photos along the way, but you'll have to trust us that it went pretty smoothly and by the (instructions) book. These guys could learn a thing or two from IKEA on how to streamline a self-made project, but it was still far easier than starting with lumber. We need to build a little ramp up to the platform and do some weed/mud control in the area in front but otherwise it's ready to go.