Are you planning to build a new shed in your backyard? Do you need a secure, closed area for your tools and storage, or an open shelter for firewood, your lawn tractor or your kid’s bikes?
A tool shed and open shelter combined
With the beautiful Colonial-Style Two-In-One Shed, by Better Barns, you’ll have both. It’s one of the most versatile, well-designed backyard buildings you’ll ever find. It has a 10′x12′ tool shed for general storage and an 8′x10′ open-bay extension that’s ideal for keeping firewood stacked and dry. The open area is also great for storing large items that might not easily fit into the main shed, such as lawnmowers, bicycles, patio furniture, wheelbarrows and stepladders.
The shed’s gable roofs are designed to be built with trusses that are made of standard 2×4 lumber with plywood gusset plates at the corners. That means that you can do most of the construction of the roof while working on the ground, not while teetering up on a ladder. The horizontal 2×4s at the bottom of the roof trusses serve as floor joists for a small optional storage loft.
Like the truss roof, the walls of this shed are built more like a barn than like a conventional shed. Horizontal 2×4s strengthen the walls and serve as nailers for vertical siding boards. Although you can use any type of siding, tongue and groove cedar or pine will make this shed look great inside and out.
The editors of Popular Mechanics magazine were so taken by this design that they ran a feature article on it. They included a isometric diagram, details and a step-by-step building guide. Together, that information is all that any experienced do-it-yourselfer or will need to create a copy.
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