Turning the garage into living space meant dealing with the mountain of material memories we’d accumulated over the years, both in the garage and in a rented storage place the size of Oracle Arena.  Even after reducing it all down to a volume we could actually imagine enclosed in a back yard structure, a problem remained: what structure do we want to be looking at every time we go into the back yard? The thought of a Tuff shed, or something equally functional and similarly sad, seemed a complete contradiction of what we had just finished creating back there.  After searching the internet for plausible pre-fab storage, it seemed we had to create the solution ourselves.  After months of contemplation and several false starts, The Shed started appearing in my mind. Using Sketchup I finally got it into image form. Since I don’t know a whole lot about carpentry and construction techniques, I got some help and advice from my knowledgeable friend John. Then I was able to focus in at a high enough resolution to figure out how to put it together, showing a level of detail necessary for Gary the builder to reproduce the image as an actual physical structure, at last enclosing our precious stuff in forms and materials kind to the eye and easy on the spirit.  Or at least better looking than a Tuff shed…

                                    click below for gallery of shed design images…          …here for large view