Some Storage Sheds Have a Porch

When the wife told me she would like to have a porch on the shed I was talking about building, I was a bit surprised. I never thought about a porch on a shed. I know she had me add a porch to her potting shed, and I remember I had no drawing and it was a real challenge. But, I would humor the wife and look for shed plans with a porch. It would not cost me anything to look.

I looked around at the big back yard and realized there would be plenty of room for a porch on the shed. I still did not think I would find a plan for a shed with a porch.

As I thought more and more about the shed we definitely needed, the idea of a porch became more appealing. Just about every square inch of the sheds I have built us in the past was usable space, so I began to visualize a porch as a nice place to sit and have a glass of iced tea after a morning of cutting grass.

I added a porch to the potting shed I built for my wife sometime back. It was not an easy project because I did not have a set of drawings. But, I have noticed how much my wife enjoys the porch. And it gives her some space for her flowers to enjoy direct sunlight.

She works most of her magic with flowers inside the structure, especially during bad weather, but having the porch gave her adequate shade to be outside but not get over heated.

Since the shed with a porch idea became so appealing to me, I thought it was time to take a look online and see if there was such a thing as drawings for a shed with a porch.

To my great surprise and delight, I found just that: drawings for sheds with porches. As I looked at the drawing I saw the usual list of materials and the sheet for cutting the lumber to proper sizes.

The porch would serve us best, I decided, if it were big enough to have a swing on it. You can tell I was fully sold on the porch idea. I bought twice the amount of stuff the porch required so it would be big enough for the swing.

It is true, many sheds are eyesores on property. My wife's potting shed fit into our landscape rather nicely. Even nicer when I added the porch. She and I noticed that the porch is what made the potting shed blend better with the landscaping.

History had already taught me I needed good plans that included plans for the porch. I knew if the angles and support for the porch were not exact, the roof could collapse, and all my hard work and money would be wasted.

It started with my wife's suggestion to add a porch to the shed we planned on building. When I found professionally drawn plans for a shed with a porch we were ready to proceed with the project. The project is now finished and the wife and I are enjoying iced tea from the swing on the porch of our new shed.

Building a shed with porch was not a problem once I got a good set of drawings. You can build one too. Go to http://www.shedplansandprojects.info and select the drawings you need.

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