Are you looking into sheds for sale or any other garden building for that matter, if so I hope you’ll find everything here that will help you find a solution, on your search for the ideal shed, log cabin or garden building.
Whether it’s for you to while away the hours in your own potting shed, store all your tools or maybe it’s going to be a place for your family to enjoy, I’m sure there will be a shed or timber building for every occasion.
There again it could just be the ideal animal shelter for your pets or livestock that you’re looking for, but I do feel confident that you’ll find it somewhere in the labyrinth of ‘sheds for sale’.
My introduction to the sheds for sale world was at a very early age growing up in South Wales where there were four ‘dwellings’ shall we call them that started this journey, three at home and one at my grandfathers. The first was our (back in the day) outside loo, an original ‘piece of architecture’ that was a tad down the garden, ok by day but when lit by candle at night was a place full of mysterious shadows and lots of creepy spiders. My only instructions venturing out the back door was “don’t be long” on the way out and “did you flush” on the way in (yes to both).
Just alongside it and in need of a little renovation was my dad’s old tool shed which was full of garden tools, a cobblers shoe anvil for fixing our shoes and things on shelves and littered around that I knew absolutely nothing about. There were of course jars full of screws and nails that ‘might’ get used one day, all covered in a fine mist of sawdust. An Aladdin’s cave of everything to fix up your home and garden.
Next on the list was a chicken coop that we had for our pet chicken called ‘Buster’. We fed him regularly with corn and scraps and sometimes my mother would make ‘popcorn’ for us with Busters food in a big covered pan. After regular days of catching the stupid bird after he often escaped to our neighbours gardens, we would make sure that we kept him watered, fed and warm in his little chucky home.
Just before Christmas that year Buster ‘escaped’ never to be found again and not surprisingly we did have chicken on the 25th so us kids were happy. It took many years to realise the connection! C’est la vie.
Other memories were of my grandad’s shed that had everything for the garden including seeds, bulbs and every manner of garden tool you could name, alongside bean sticks and enough twine to go twice around our town. Pride of place was his old Morris Minor car seat (circa 1948) fixed firmly by his workbench where he’d sit and pot-up his annual seed collection ready for the summer harvest. Other than that I remembered him smoking his pipe and telling me everything ‘I needed to know’ about runner beans and chrysanthemums.
Fast forward, to my years as an apprentice and pride of place, as was on every building site, stood a huge cement storage shed that housed about 2 ton of cement and all the hand tools and shovels for the various tradesmen. It was a place us ‘young uns’ would often hide before being collared by the foreman and kicked out, accompanied by a clip to go with it. Daily we’d reluctantly have to carry 40kg bags of cement out of the storage shed and over to the site mixer ready for our days work. I’m sure I should have been 6’0” tall but ended up 5’8”, probably to do with carrying all that cement! Happy days.
After becoming qualified and working for the next 50 years in construction, landscaping and gardening, I can honestly say that I’ve worked on a huge number of sheds, garden offices and outdoor buildings that allows me the opportunity to help you with your sheds for sale search or any other garden building for that matter. I'll help wherever possible under the guise of ‘sheds and shacks’, a loose term I use for all the outdoor buildings and sheds for sale such as garden rooms and home offices that are available today.
There are of course some amazing structures that range from sheds and chalets to garden rooms and summerhouses that would need groundwork, drainage, electrics and heating, all of which I’ve been involved with over 5 decades and happy to pass on some knowledge within the pages of ‘sheds n shacks’. In fact there will be something here for everyone and a dwelling for every occasion, person or animal.
There is the overwhelming need for garden offices and studios following the ‘working from home’ trend that has changed our lifestyles and made the commute to the workplace just a few steps away.
If by chance you can’t find what you’re looking for please email me for any help and advice I can share. Oh…and by the way, you can always join my mailing list and I’ll let you know what’s out there for you in outdoor buildings and sheds.
Whatever choice you’re thinking of making, I’m sure there’s a whole host of questions covering sheds for sale that I can help you with and listed below are some that I’m familiar with, perhaps you have more so please get in touch.
Do I need planning permission?
Can I insulate my dwelling?
How do I connect electrics?
Is any basework needed?
What heating can I use?
Can I fit a bathroom?
Can I fit a kitchen?
What type of roof can I have!
Can I use my WiFi?
Are sheds ok for animals?
What security can I fit?
The list is.....endless.
I believe outdoor buildings and sheds are in some way an extension of our homes and can be adapted in so many ways whether they’re used for storage, pets and livestock, garden office or big enough to use for glamping and more, there are very few limits only restricted by your imagination and when you consider the possibilities with the larger garden rooms and log cabins, those possibilities really are endless.
There are many options, for instance, you can take a standard shed and cleverly add to it making it into something special transforming it into a children’s playhouse with ropes, walkways, surround it with sand and tie and old boat to it. Imagine a child’s imagination running with that idea. There doesn’t have to be set rules for any garden building, it can be as individual as you want.
And your garden room doesn’t have to be just ‘a room’, it could be surrounded by decking and landscaping or an ideal retreat to use as a studio, gym or that business opportunity made possible by a fairly modest investment that doesn’t have all the overheads you could expect with bricks and mortar.
Wherever your interests are, there are plenty of solutions somewhere in the linear hierarchy moving upwards from a basic ‘shed’ that will have so many uses in gardens and on allotments such as storage sheds for tools, equipment or keeping pets, to the very largest of buildings that bridge over to gargantuan proportions.
These cross with its big brother ‘outdoor buildings’ ranging from workshops, holding livestock, vehicles and larger equipment to farm buildings and storage sometimes much further up the scale than the average stand alone timber store
And then moving towards ‘garden rooms’ where storage is no longer an issue but might instead be suited to your garden office, a studio maybe in the form of a Shepherd Hut and the type of structure to be fully insulated with electricity and all mod cons. These are becoming very popular especially for those work at home enthusiasts and for others who want that little bit of comfort in the garden.
Then it’s moving up to ‘log cabins’ which sit at the top of the tree as far as a totally usable and liveable dwellings would be and are more likely to be found as closer to a ‘home from home’ style than any other wood and timber structures! Many are pre-made and installed either from kit form or by specialist fitters completing groundwork and the installation
There are a world of choices available for you to explore and I hope that I’m able to help in some way in your search, from my own work experiences, covering outdoor buildings and sheds for sale.
To help you find answers I’ll be looking at four topics and all their variations.
SHEDS – OUTDOOR BUILDINGS - GARDEN ROOMS – LOG CABINS
Some of these will overlap I’m sure which is only natural but we’ll be looking at everything in depth to see what represents good value and does it meet your needs. And if you have any feedback from your own experiences or any advice you’d like to offer to others, then there is a sheds forum section where you can contribute with your feedback and any photos you have.
You can email me at any time and please join the mailing list for much more to come.
Mike
P.S. More pages coming very soon ;-)
Footnote
You’d think after 50 years in the business, that your working days are done and in the real sense I suppose they are. It’s time to put the tools away, although a little reluctantly but inevitable, so I’m handing my work over to a younger generation many of whom I’ve passed my skills and knowledge onto.
I trust they’ll do well and in turn help and advise their clients as I have done for so long.
Fortunately, I developed a passion in my work that is carrying over into retirement and besides the social activities that I now have time to do I’ll be committing my time to these pages and helping a new generation, not in the physical way that I’ve happily done for so long but in sharing advise that I feel will benefit others.
The theme is sheds for sale and other garden buildings which covers quite a wide range of outbuildings, storage and places to sit and enjoy the day, much like I’m doing now :-).
It’s approaching Christmas 2023 as I write this and already I’m looking forward to 2024 and developing more for you to read and refer to as a guide that you can use in the future. I hope to connect with you in some way and whether you’re from the UK, Europe, US or anywhere else in the world I wish you well.
You can email me at any time and please stay in touch by subscribing to my mailing list for regular updates.
Mike
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