I’m about to be kicked out of my study to make room for a new addition to our family. I still need a place to go, and we didn’t really want to buy house (not to mention that we don’t have the money for that anyway), so we decided that I would move my study to a detached building.
I started looking into it. The options I could come up with were
- Buy a prefabricated shed from Home Depot
- Hire a contractor to build it for me
- Build it myself
The problem with option #1 was that none of what Home Depot had were exactly what I wanted, and they all looked like barns to boot – not to mention that they weren’t exactly cheap.
The problem with #2 was that it was just going to be too expensive, so I decided to go with option #3.
I saw an article in Popular Mechanics that described how to build a shed. At the end of the article appeared a reference to the company who makes the plans. I bought a copy ($30). Once I got it in the mail, I went to Home Depot to get my first round of materials. They barely fit in the back of a full-sized pickup.
You’ll notice in the posts dealing with this project a number of pictures. I’m hoping to get a picture for each step from the same perspective and then make a freeze-frame animation of the project at the end.