Name:JoAnn
Location: Southport, North Carolina
Type of space: Garden Entry Way & Tool Storage
Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoy it: I needed a place to store my garden tools that would not look like a tool shed because our community has strict guidelines about detached structures. This structure provides storage space for tall tools, including a lawnmower, and shelf space for sprayer and hand tools, while at the same time it is a garden harbor with seats and trellises for roses...
How did you create it? My husband, Jim, built the structure without any formal plans, going only on what I provided in my needs list. He used Western Red Cedar with pressure treated 12 ft by 6x6 posts sunk in concrete joined by galvanized carriage bolts. (He did this as we live in an area that can be hit by tropical storms and hurricanes.) He made the opening wide enough for us to move our large garden cart through without difficulty.
Recommended store, site, product or resource? Blanton Building Supplies, Little River, SC
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I'd love more details about dimensions just so I can get prespective on this. We've been planning a shed type structure for the side yard and I love this idea.
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This is one of the best ideas yet in outdoor garden structures I've ever seen. Thanks for the inspiration, I'm going to ask my son if he can duplicate this in my garden too.
P.S. Your husband should patent the plans. He can submit a hand drawn sketch of this to the patent office with their fee and maybe make a few bucks off it before someone else does!
view Motherbear's profile
Your husband did a beautiful job constructing your ideas.
view sassydo's profile
What a beautiful solution! How lucky you are to have Jim - visionary and craftsman. Your entrance is a special portal into a special garden....good job, you two!
view catzgarden's profile
Ingenious!
view epeterius's profile
Very cool.
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