The traditionally shaped garden shed doesn’t allow for a lot of personal manoeuvring space when you get inside of it. The shed basically allows you to walk in to it and place something in it in a position that will later become awkward when you try to get it out again and then the design basically just lets you to walk out again. Unless you have the room in your garden for a wide workshop, which the majority of people won’t, then you will be racking your brains to find a suitable alternative.
The issue is simply down to orientation of the storage space within the garden shed. Most wooden sheds are straight down the middle in configuration, with little to no sideways movement allowed. What is required is a different approach to shed design. The shed will, most probably, be predominately used for storage and a 10’ x 6’ footprint will give a tremendous area for such a use. Altering the dimensions, however, so that the shed is wider than it is deep and by moving the door to the side of the front gable the usefulness of the 60 square feet space is increased.
Once this is done there is now a lot more workable space when you consider that before you could only maintain a linear approach to storage or your workspace. The altered design gives you the benefit of being able to work in a full circular space with much more head room to utilise for storage, shelving, racking, you name it.
This configuration allows for a more agreeable area for the use of a work bench under the window in the front gable giving more light to your working environment and a set of offset double doors would give access to almost half the shed.
Garden Buildings Direct have several buildings that take note of these consideration in their design one of which is the BillyOh Park Gardener’s Retreat which is a 10’ x 6’ shed that is wider than it is deep with offset double doors. Take a look at the product description here: http://www.gardenbuildingsdirect.co.uk/Wooden-Sheds/BillyOh-Park-Gardeners-Retreat-Apex-
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