When I was trying to move house recently my wife and I commented on the dilapidated old 8’ x 6’ wooden shed that resided at the bottom of our prospective new home as we viewed about the thousandth property that month (my wife likes to be nosey). We both commented on the fact that if we did buy this house, which we were secretly keen on and made sure the vendor didn’t know it by listing all of the problems that needed sorting out and how much money we had to spend on it, that the shed would have to go and as bonfire night was fast approaching we’d have to get a new one quite quickly.
The only problem was that we would have to replace it with another that didn’t impose on the garden as much as this monstrosity did. The 8’ x 6’ stretched across the lawn, which looked like it needed a bit of weed and feed, and blocked half of a lovely view of the expanse of fields beyond. Also the garden itself wasn’t deep enough to place the shed in any other orientation as there was a massive willow tree between it and the house. I wasn’t happy about having a shed pressed up against the conservatory window so it couldn’t go there and I wasn’t going to hack a beautiful tree down just so I can sit staring at my shed and having my wife staring at me with that sarcastic look of her’s thinking, ‘Gorgeous shed we’ve got there ‘.
But we didn’t want to lose the amount of storage space that this shed offered, even if the roof was half gone and the floor had rotted away in the corner, I think a dog was kept in there for a while who liked scratching at the building’s floor. So what could we do?
The answer was simple, find a shed that had the same capacity, but had a different footprint that shaved off a foot or two to expose the scenic views of the fields and, as it happens, allowed more light into our garden, but also didn’t require us to hire a tree-chopper.
We found out that an ideal garden shed was actually a corner shed, where the door sits at the front of a 5 sided building, which fits into a right angled corner of the garden. The door could be moved to the left or right of the front panel depending on your requirements, but we needed the door at the front or we’d have to get rid of the low brick wall dividing our garden from the field or put a door in to the tree on the other side.
So we went for the 7’ x 7’ BillyOh Park ‘Stable Door’ Corner Shed and it sits perfectly where the old 8’ x 6’, with a bit of a list once stood. Obviously we bought the house, although we didn’t get to move in to it in time for bonfire night so we ended up with a pile of wood that once made up an 8’ x 6’ shed, but still we are very happy with our corner shed.
Take a look at the product description here: http://www.gardenbuildingsdirect.co.uk/Wooden-Sheds/BillyOh-Park-Stable-Door-Corner-Shed
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