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Garden Sheds 
Garden Sheds for Your Gardening Tools
Garden Sheds can be a place to organize and store all of your gardening tools. There a many sizes and designs to accommodate a variety of gardener needs. Garden sheds are basically made from 3 primary types of materials and each has their associated advantages. You should look at a few different options so you can judge the styles, durability, and cost differences of each type.
Garden Shed Designs:
Manufacturers have many styles and types of garden sheds they offer. Many have trade names to describe their particular designs but all are based on the same set of basic roof structures. The roof basics describing garden shed styles are as follows:
Salt Box: The salt box style has a short front gable roof and a gently sloping rear roof. Its name comes from the shape of wooden boxes used to store salt back in the 18th century colonial time period.
Hip: The hip roof style is rectangular with all 4 sides angled or sloped. This is sometimes advertised by manufacturers as a cottage style shed.
Gable: The gable roof style is basically 2 pitched roofs back to back that form a triangular roof. Gable roof styles are the most common style for garden sheds.
Gambrel: The gambrel roof style looks a lot like a barn and is often referred to as a mini-barn, barn, barn style, or high wall. With this barn design you have high lofts for potential extra storage.
Lean To: The lean to roof style is a shed that is usually built next to an existing structure or as an attachment to. Free Newsletter Please sign up and enjoy our Gardening Advisor Newsletter. In this you will read both fun and serious gardening information covering a wide range of topics.
We will gaurd your Email with great care and NEVER send spam or sell your information. Pre-Built (or) Onsite-Construction of your garden shed: You can either purchase or build a garden shed on your property. They are readily available either way and can be acquired from a local garden center or purchased online from a website.
Pre-Built Garden Sheds – These can be bought completely constructed and ready to be placed on your property as is.
Onsite-Construction Garden Sheds – This can include building a garden shed from scratch or completing a shed kit.
Basics for Onsite Garden Shed Construction:
You’ll need to do your prep work to the landscape as well as gaining any appropriate building permits. Once ready there are basically 4 steps to building your garden shed:
Foundation/Floor – This is the solid base for your garden shed and consist of: Treated skid timbers, patio stones, concrete base, pressure treated joist, and a plywood floor.
Frame – The frame is the skeleton of the structure and supports the walls and roof. It consist of wall studs and roof rafters (usually 2’ x 4’ or 2’ x 6’).
Siding – This is the covering (flesh over the skeleton) of a finished wall. Siding can consist of plywood, pine or cedar, cedar shakes or shingles, vinyl, OSB, Hardiplank, etc.
Roof – The cover for your garden shed and it consist of asphalt shingles, cedar shingles, aluminum, metal, OSB, etc.
Listing of Various Yard & Garden Structures:
There are many different types of structures in addition to garden sheds that you can put in your yard or garden.
Sheds (Garden or General): Any kind of small structure that is primarily used for storage of tools & equipment.
Greenhouse: A structure enclosed by glass for the purpose of cultivation of plants.
Barn (Garden): A structure primarily used for agricultural purposes whether on a small or large scale. Even small scale structures can be ideal for storing feeds, hay, farm equipment and tools. Larger barns of course can be used for livestock or hatching chicks for example.
Garden House: An ornamental structure in the garden used for relaxing and sitting.
Sun House: These structures (also known as a Solarium) are smaller buildings designed to get lots of sunlight.
Gazebo: Smaller structures with a roof and open sided for viewing and sitting.
Arbors: An open structure that is usually covered with plants and vines. Gardening Newsletter Garden Sheds are great for organizing and storing all your gardening tools and equipment. |