New Shed

When we bought the house, I built a wood base and attached our collapsible shed to it to store our bikes. Over the last few years we've used it store various items. In the last year the shed has really been showing its age as rips appeared in the fabric and this happened this winter:

It collapsed under the weight of the snow every time it snowed this winter, and several of the support poles shattered.

We've still been using it to house the generator, recycling bins, and a few miscellaneous items, but it's  been such an eyesore. We draped a tarp over the stuff inside, trying to compensate for the massive hole. Not sure if it added to or detracted from the overall trashy factor.

We shifted the shed and platform to the left a few feet when Mr M re-did the kitchen stairs.

We've been looking for a replacement, and thinking about our options. The original plan was to build a small shed, but after pricing materials, we decided it would be cheaper to buy one. And it would be a lot quicker to put together a kit shed. Time is an important consideration since we never seem to have enough of it.

We finally purchased a shed from Sam's (we looked at Lowe's also) and spent an afternoon putting it together. Before we could build, though, we first had to tear down. Not that it took much work to tear down the old shed that was barely standing. 

With the platform cleared off, we moved it a few yards away from the house and deck. I think the longest part of this project was getting the platform level. Seriously, that took a lot longer than we anticipated. 

We finally got the platform level and started putting the pieces together. It was pretty easy to do- even Sunshine helped screw in screws.

River supervised :)

By that evening we had the shed put together and the side of the house looked like this:

So much better!

And there's the new shed, off to the left. It's slightly smaller than the old shed (5x8 instead of 6x8), but it's quite a bit taller. A little extra headroom makes it feel a lot roomier than the old shed. That and we can install shelves and use some of the vertical space more effectively.

We need to clear out the dead leaves and bring in some gravel to level things out a bit now that we can actually see this space.

It just looks so much nicer. We can't get over how good it looks!