A few more shed pics

I never really posted any good pictures of the shed after we finished building it. This thing really turned out great, so I got some other decent pictures to share after finishing off that workbench. Really over Christmas I was trying to show my family some decent pics from my phone and didn't have any, so this is kind of a phone dump post.

Front - the door is centered. 2' of wall, 6' of door, then 2' of wall again.

behind the muscadine vines

Back door is all the way to one side and there is a 4' roof cantilever to provide more protection

Good view of the side of the shed from this side too. Maybe we should have put in some windows?

Weekend Warrior

New Years weekend I started a project in the shed that wrapped up recently. I added a built-in workbench that was roughly 10' long and about 2' wide, as wide as the wall would allow without blocking the doorway. I used leftover 2x4's from the roof construction to frame it up, and leftover siding boards (Gene's roughcut pine) to make the shelf & top. It came out really well and I'm quite proud of it.

looking from outside of the front of the shed

This thing is solid and sturdy

Not the cleanest end caps but they will do

I'm 6'1" for comparison. This thing is huge!

Got my special helpers out sitting on it too

This was a really fun project and I am really looking forward to doing some more woodworking again now that I have an appropriate space for it.

How to Finish a Shed

I think we did it! After 5 months of weekends, evenings, and lots of hard work it looks like the shed is finally done. Sure, there are always more little tweaks. We could use a little more pegboard on the interior walls or something. But now we feel comfortable moving all of the tools and shelving in there to call it done.  Here's how we finished it off. This is a ton of pictures

Kelley built a potting bench beside the back door! no dirt in the shed.

Exterior walls are all built out, now we just need doors and an interior

Electrical is all done, we even got a 220v outlet for the kiln

Front side has the underside of the gable finished off

Then I built ramps to get in. This is the front ramp

And the back ramp

I didn't exactly get the stepping stones propping up those ramps evenly spaced. And I did add more stones in front of those later. But now we have a completed shell and everything else is finishing touches.

There is a project management theory that the first 90% of a project takes as much time as the last 10% of a project. Starting with those ramps, I think, we're into the 10% side of the project. I'm just glad to cross over that milestone and see the light at the end of the tunnel.

I started with a plan to build the doors out of the same siding and molding used for the rest of the exterior.

First door is finished and hung!

Having both doors done really makes the front look finished

Tough to get a picture of the exterior siding, but this is the left side

and this is the right

I look confused

that's better!

We got some luan up on the walls and nailed up a pallet to hold the yard tools

we put up some pegboard as well, and you can see some detail of the inside of the doors

Back doors are built and hung!

Very excited to be done building doors. The back doors didn't fit as well as the front doors did.

Got knobs? Back doors are finished!

I added hook-and-eye catches to hold the back doors open

Under the gable is finished too. We are some happy carpenters!

Finished product from the back

The plywood floor wasn't sturdy so we used leftover hardwood & bamboo to cover it

Final finished interior floor

Sure we could use some more luan & pegboard on that right side but the doors are locked and we feel comfortable moving our stuff inside. We started this project during the June trackout and finally finished it in October! So glad it's all done. Now for some organization...

The 90-10 Rule

The 90/10 rule comes from project management. The theory is that the first 90% of a project will take just as much time as the last 10% of the project, and you better plan for it. We're into the 10% of the shed now and wanted to dump some pictures here on how we got there.

This shed is really coming along nicely and I like how it's coming together. When last we left this shed, the walls were framed up and sheeted, and the roof trusses were installed. Next we put up the roof sheeting and started finishing the shed from the top down!

All trussed up and nowhere to go

fascia boards up

I'm skeptical about my roofing abilities

Sheeting is going up!

And we got the first bit of siding and molding up too!

really coming together!

Now it's time to get up there and shingle. Finish off that roof! Getting this shed "in the dry" is huge. This project is taking forever. But getting this far really puts us at the 90% mark.

Got the tar paper down

First couple of rows of shingles are down!

I approve of this roof

Ella got in on the action in her playhouse too

All done!

One happy roofer

Up next in the 10% part of the project, siding, molding, doors, and ramps to get inside. It's really starting to come together. Kelley really has been doing most of the work outside of the roof so my pictures got sparse. I'm ready to finish this sucker!