I needed a garden shed (for potting supplies) and a dog house, but I wanted it to look good. I started with Ana's plans, but screwed up a cut and was too lazy to go to the store, so I modified the plan a bit - also we didn't want a lot of venting off the roof.
OUR MODIFICATIONS:
NO BACK WALL - I did not build a back wall, as we pushed it all the way up to the house. (You need to check your codes for this if it's allowed. The way I'm integrating mine w/o breaking the exterior waterproofing of the house and it's unconditioned made mine OK)
DOG HOUSE- I cut away a hole for our dog between the battens. And as you can see - he loves it. He's got his Coolaroo dog bed inside. We also added a 'ceiling' to the lower dog house half, that divides the gardening storage from dog house. The large shelf inside that acts as a dog house ceiling, and above are my un-used pots, hand tools etc. (no worries no chemicals with the puppy)
PAINTED EXTERIOR- I painted it red to match the house, and will also be putting garden pavers in front of the doors.
ROOF- We did put an underlayment down on the roof before the asphalt shingles.
LESSON LEARNED- If your dog is a Mama's boy like mine, he may try to climb a ladder to remove you from a roof which he has determined is not OK for you to be up there.
*One concern is - most sidewalks slope away from the house, so we had to shim the sill plate so front of the shed doesn't lean outward causing the doors to pull open constantly. As you can see from the photo I still need to flash at the roof where we cut back our houses' battens.
COST- We live in CA - and this project was more expensive than anticipated, our lumber/roof shingle costs were around $270 alone, and keep in mind we didn't build a back panel. I have very little scrap left over too. When I was nearly done the hinges were an additional $15 a piece, $10 for the latch. And we had the primer and paint in the garage. Underlayment for roof, I already had in the garage too.
TIM-: I started this project on a weekend, but it ended up taking longer; probably because I didn't block out the weekend just for this project. I spread it over the course of a month, so hours wise it probably wasn't as bad as it felt... You do need two people though, and that's where I ran into some trouble, I kept trying to work on it when my husband wasn't home. Probably 24hrs, 3 easy going days. Could probably be done in a weekend if you were dedicated and didn't get distracted (or screw up a cut like I did, which sent me to the drawing board to fix my mistake)
Comments
ana8178
Thu, 02/02/2012 - 07:35
Really cute! I love the
Really cute! I love the plexiglass-what did you use to anchor it? Or does it just lay on top?
Katie_Evans
Thu, 02/02/2012 - 17:42
Thanks!
I put a 1x2 trim around the table to give the cheap plywood a finished look and off-set it the width of the plexiglass with the intention of screwing the plexi down with shallow screws. However... I couldn't get the plexi cut the exact size of the table so I ended up just laying it on there. It hasn't moved an inch yet! I was a little nervous drilling into the plexi glass so this ended up working out just fine. It is really easy to clean pb&j off of too!
As a bonus the Land of N0d catalog came last week. The thumb chair is in it at a retail of $65.00!!! I LOVE Ana White!