My problem is lack of outside storage space for the kind of equipment my wife will not let me keep inside our house. You know the kind of thing I mean. Electric drills, lawnmower, folding workbench, hammers, saws and various other woodworking equipment.
Us fellas like to keep those boxes of screws and hinges, and as they mount up, we need somewhere to store them. You never know when you might need something in those jars and boxes for the next woodworking project.
Inevitably, and for the sake of peace in the family household, we had to reach a compromise. So me and my wife decided on some small shed plans, as being the best solution. The kids could have some input as well, so that meant everyone would be part of the project.
I already had a small storage shed, but know one knows how old it is, and is in a sorry state of decay. We inherited it when we bought the house, and the plain fact is, it just is too small to store all my stuff anyway. I could have gone to the hardware store and purchased a shed kit which I only needed to put together with a few tools. The design of this particular product was not quite what I was looking for, so I decided to build my own shed, using my own set of DIY shed plans.
I could not have built this shed without a clear set of small shed plans to walk me through each step. Believe me, they make all the difference to a successful outcome in a DIY project of this kind.
I sat down with my wife and we thought about how big we wanted the small shed to be. Then we drew up a design of our own, on paper, to envisage what the finished shed would look like. This did help us to decide on the design we wanted, which we thought would look good in our location. It gave us a focus for the project as well.
When you get this far in the project, it is down to those small shed plans, and a good set of blueprints to work from. We were all pleased with the shed when it was finished and it gave each of us a great thrill to know that we had built the shed by ourselves. It was all our own work, and a great team effort.