Here you will find articles and reports all pertaining to our fascination with the international phenomenon of 'The Shed'. This should include associated shed products and random shed based articles.
Thursday, 17 April 2008
How Do You Use Your Shed?
Was your shed built for a specific purpose, or has it become a repositary for all and sundry, with a little bit of general detritus on the side?
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Shedding its traditional image If garden sheds conjure up images of men sneaking out of the house with their pipe, slippers and newspaper to escape ‘the wife’, or you think they are just for storing garden tools, old junk or bikes, think again… garden sheds are the new must-have item for celebrities and young people.
Designer sheds It's true. Zoe Ball, television presenter and DJ, has one - her ‘pink-painted girly retreat’. She says she ‘went for a cosy look, but with lushness too, all whites and soft dusky pinks, mirrored side tables and beautiful pale pink silk curtains with embroidered cream flowers’. Designers Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan created designer sheds at this year’s Ideal Home Show, which celebrate their Scottish roots with a contemporary spin on a hunting lodge theme. And celebrity chef James Martin has turned his shed into a designer kitchen.
Urban retreat Shedhead Vicky, 19, from Manchester, has had a shed built to create a ‘home from home’. She says, her shed is ‘painted dark brown and has a little porch with spindles, a laminate floor, shelves where she puts her TV, DVD player, toaster, kettle, lamp and mini fridge and a two-seater settee’. As Vicky shares a room with her sister, she decided she needed somewhere to go to if she wanted some privacy.
Shed facts and figures In the UK we spend around £90 million a year on sheds. They can add up to five per cent to the value of a property, usually don’t need planning permission and around ten million homes are reputed to have one. They don’t need to cost very much either – sheds can be purchased for as little as £99.
Shed space ideas With increased interest in architectural and interior design, and perhaps inspired by television makeover programmes, people can see the potential for sheds to create an additional living space which can be put to any number of uses - meditation room, miniature spa, gym, cinema, games room, office, studio and even a bar.
So if you want somewhere to relax and chill out why not create your own hideaway?
Fact file: The Anglo-Saxon name for a shed is scead, which means shade
Inventor Trevor Baylis came up with the prototype of his famous clockwork radio in his shed
Several writers have written their bestseller in their garden shed:
Philip Pullman wrote his trilogy His darkest materials in his garden shed
Louis de Bernières wrote Captain Corelli’s Mandolin in his wooden summer house in Norfolk
and the Wallace and Gromit adventures were written by Bob Baker in his Gloucestershire shed
First Posted on Shed Style - Trend UK by Connie April 2007
WOW,what a terrific site it's just so coooooooool.I really love the shed thing it reminds me of the tine i was in california in he late sixties,our sect had a really groovy shed on the beach that we used for parties ,It was wiiiiiild man with all that acid and free love, many a time we went surfin then just got wasted in the shed after.it was mindblowin.keep up the good work on this site and if anybody from "children of the sun" are om this site i'd want to hear from you. .Wes Thatcher the crazy surfer.
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Shedding its traditional image
If garden sheds conjure up images of men sneaking out of the house with their pipe, slippers and newspaper to escape ‘the wife’, or you think they are just for storing garden tools, old junk or bikes, think again… garden sheds are the new must-have item for celebrities and young people.
Designer sheds
It's true. Zoe Ball, television presenter and DJ, has one - her ‘pink-painted girly retreat’. She says she ‘went for a cosy look, but with lushness too, all whites and soft dusky pinks, mirrored side tables and beautiful pale pink silk curtains with embroidered cream flowers’. Designers Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan created designer sheds at this year’s Ideal Home Show, which celebrate their Scottish roots with a contemporary spin on a hunting lodge theme. And celebrity chef James Martin has turned his shed into a designer kitchen.
Urban retreat
Shedhead Vicky, 19, from Manchester, has had a shed built to create a ‘home from home’. She says, her shed is ‘painted dark brown and has a little porch with spindles, a laminate floor, shelves where she puts her TV, DVD player, toaster, kettle, lamp and mini fridge and a two-seater settee’. As Vicky shares a room with her sister, she decided she needed somewhere to go to if she wanted some privacy.
Shed facts and figures
In the UK we spend around £90 million a year on sheds. They can add up to five per cent to the value of a property, usually don’t need planning permission and around ten million homes are reputed to have one. They don’t need to cost very much either – sheds can be purchased for as little as £99.
Shed space ideas
With increased interest in architectural and interior design, and perhaps inspired by television makeover programmes, people can see the potential for sheds to create an additional living space which can be put to any number of uses - meditation room, miniature spa, gym, cinema, games room, office, studio and even a bar.
So if you want somewhere to relax and chill out why not create your own hideaway?
Fact file:
The Anglo-Saxon name for a shed is scead, which means shade
Inventor Trevor Baylis came up with the prototype of his famous clockwork radio in his shed
Several writers have written their bestseller in their garden shed:
Philip Pullman wrote his trilogy His darkest materials in his garden shed
Louis de Bernières wrote Captain Corelli’s Mandolin in his wooden summer house in Norfolk
and the Wallace and Gromit adventures were written by Bob Baker in his Gloucestershire shed
First Posted on Shed Style - Trend UK by Connie April 2007
WOW,what a terrific site it's just so coooooooool.I really love the shed thing it reminds me of the tine i was in california in he late sixties,our sect had a really groovy shed on the beach that we used for parties ,It was wiiiiiild man with all that acid and free love, many a time we went surfin then just got wasted in the shed after.it was mindblowin.keep up the good work on this site and if anybody from "children of the sun" are om this site i'd want to hear from you. .Wes Thatcher the crazy surfer.
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