There are many shed plans available on the internet. Many plans are available completely free while others are available at a very nominal price. Many home improvement magazines and books also contain shed plans. You can also purchase some blueprints at your local hobby shop.
You can even create your own shed blueprints if you are quite familiar with drafting or if you are a seasoned woodworker. If you are still new to woodworking it is advisable to work with an easy shed design to prevent running into hurdles during the project. Choosing to construct a complex shed design with little experience is an invitation to trouble and loses both in money and efforts. It is far better to stick with a plain and simple shed with four walls and a roof unless you are thinking of getting right shed building plans designed by professionals.
Select the shed building blueprints keeping in mind the size of the plot on which you are going to construct the shed. You must not make the shed so large that it is hard to fit it inside the available plot neither must you construct it so small that you fall short of space in just a some months after finishing the shed. Leave enough room around your shed walls on the outside so that air can freely flow in and out of the shed. Don’t be short sighted when deciding on the size thinking of just what you need right now, make some allowance for possible need for space in the coming years. Within the limits of your budget and land area, try to make as big a shed as feasible. To get a better idea of where your shed will stand and how it will look, you can lay down some rope and trace out the area where the shed base will stand.
There are many different shed designs available to choose from. Following are some of the most commonly built shed styles. Lean To Style Shed is one of the simple shed designs. This kind of shed is sometimes constructed attached to existing buildings but can also be easily built as self supported buildings. It has a single slanting roof commonly slanted towards the door.
The easy design of this shed makes it ideal for novice woodworkers who just want to put up a cheap small shed quickly. The Gable Style Shed Design has been around for a long time and is one of the most widely used shed styles. Garden sheds usually use this kind of roof and they are also suitable for constructing equipments sheds and workshops. A gable roof consists of two sloping roof sections connected to each other to form a triangular shaped structure.
Once the basic structure of the shed is completed you can customize it further to suit your own needs. You can fix shelves for holding items which should be stored off the ground. Garden sheds will definitely have use for shelves to store small pots and tools. Shelves can easily take up a lot of space if you fit too many too close, so leave enough space to move items freely. Custom designs and fittings can easily be added to your shed for holding special types of equipment.
Commonly the designs for such fixtures are already provided in the free shed blueprints. The shed can also be fitted with lamps and fans or even air conditioning as per your needs once you put up some basic electrical equipment inside your shed frame. It is typical for sheds today to have more than one room and some of them even have balconies. Finally give your shed a unique look by customizing it with some special structures like a barn style door or special wooden patterns.