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March 12, 2006

towards having a (prefabulous) tool shed

Sometime soon, we're going to need a tool shed. In a move away from anything old or having that particular kind of character, we're planning on building something that will require minimal fiddling to have standing and solid, but won't be a plastic eyesore.

Lacking a basement, we have a need for a certain amount of secure tool space. With so much left to do on the house, we don't want getting the shed together to become a real project in itself. Neither, though, do we really want to have to look at one of those sheds from Lowe's or Home Depot -- we'd like something interesting.

With an appreciation for the design and ease of contemporary prefab, we'd consider that except for the cost. It sucks to be poor and like nice things. We've been talking about building our own shed, using as much standard-sized and prefab/precut material as possible (hopefully from a drawing by one of the architects at R.'s job).

A few interesting&related links that've popped up recently are: Some Assembly Required: Contemporary Prefabricated Houses, Tumbleweed Tiny House Company, and Inhabitat.

Posted by john m at March 12, 2006 8:44 AM

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