My little wood storage shed

Great job, Gary! A place for everything and everything in its place, smart…
Are you going to get some new machinery to fill the newly created voids in your shop, or just enjoy the added elbow room for a while?

-- Mike in Manchester, NH---Unpleasant tasks are simply worthy challenges to improve skills.

This is a nice addition to your shop. I agree with Mike now that you have the extra space surely you can think of some new tools to add to your shop!

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

Very innovative solution! Looks like you’ve had a lot of practice with pocket holes. I enjoyed the slideshow.

Very nice Gary, every woodworker seems to have their lumber in any opening they can find. I am no different. Having a place like this is wonderful. Its well organized and easily accessable.

Well done
Rob

-- Whether You Think You Can or You Think You Can't, YOU ARE RIGHT!!!

Mike and Scott – actually, the shed’s been fully usable all year now. While it freed up a lot of wall space, and a few piled areas, it’s still a small shop, and the organization and organizer-building is ongoing. The two largest areas it freed up I used for a tall, free-standing cabinet I built (post about that one one of these days), and my 6” Delta Jointer. So yeah, it did give me back some space, but really it just reduced clutter and freed up the walls a lot. Thanks!

ratchet – Boy have I! I just took advantage of a deal through Rockler – driving there the last day of the sale – wherein they had Kreg pocket screws at 33% off. That was about a week ago. I picked up a box of 1000 coarse thread screws for 3/4” joinery, a box of 500 for 2x joints, and 2 boxes of 50ea. of the 2x length screws with the blue weather coating for outdoor work. I go through them fast! In fact, I just blew through all but a couple from one of those 50 packs making a simple box frame of 2×4s. It’s a shallow cube 4’ wide and tall, and 2’ deep, and there’s a rail around the middle of 2×4s as well for shelving. That’s 6 lateral pieces and 6 cross bar pieces. The 4 verticals didn’t need screws as they go to the extents of the bounding box (nothing to screw them into). That’s 12 2×4s with 2 screws per end, or 48 screws total! They go fast.

Rob – thanks!

-- Gary, Los Angeles, video game animator

Gary, Now that’s what I call a “Custom” wood shed. Lots of flexibility to maximize the space. Well thought out and well done.

-- John @ Myrtle Beach

great job , gary ,
now you have room for
the last tree in L.A. ,
when you find it !
you can store it in the space you got in the shop !

after that , you are going to hit the sierra mts.
for wood !

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

Very nice.

In the California summer it can also serve as a kiln for drying your wood!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Very nice shed.

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker

Wow this looks great. Nice job! I am jealous…this is going on my wish list.

-- James - What's your excuse this time??

nicely done…. perfect for the CA weather!. well organized.

-- When in doubt - There is no doubt - Go the safer route.

This is really a great idea. Well done, Gary!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Pretty amazing.

While you can never undertake a project this big without having a list of “I probably should have…..” when you’re done … it really looks like the combination of a slow build and the amount of forethought that clearly went into this design … gave you everything you wanted … and more.

Really clever. Really nice design. Really good looking outcome.

Big thumbs-up!

-- -- Neil

I lived in San Jose for a while in the ‘90s, and I had forgotten about the “greasy black dust” that gets on everything. Yuck.

At first, I thought the shed was on fire, with the way the dappled light is hitting the corner in the first picture.

-- Measure twice, then try to figure out which one was right.

This was added to my favorites as soon as I saw it. Perfect for my needs.

-- If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail!

Good storage shed

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Gary, beautiful shed! I always have to admire you folks who can be so organized, My shop looks like a hurricane went through it most of the time. I’ve got friends visiting next weekend, so I’m actually planning a flurry of activity out there the next few days, hopefully I can use some of your ideas and make a useful storage area in one corner of my shop.

-- Ned - 2B1ASK1 http://nedswoodshop.blogspot.com

3 words…. framing nail gun :)

looks great though! i need one of these but mine would end up having a lawn mower, bicycle, rakes and shovels in it lol

WOW

I am planning to replace my yard shed next spring and this just gave me some great ideas to incorporate.

Really like the doors on the sides as when thinking about my shed update it was still up in the air on how to keep everything easy to access. The narrow slide in for sheets is also something I hadn’t considered.

My new idea is to have the front for the gardening stuff and the rear being your storage concept.

Again, good ideas.

Steve.

Great Lookin Shed

-- Jim, Kentucky

Great way to get all those materials out of the shop. A very nicely done and nice looking shed. It’s has me thinking about doing the same. Gary’s comment about the kiln effect got me thinking though. Is there any ventilation there? Maybe you don’ t really need it in such a dry climate, but just a thought.

-- Mike, American in Norway

Nice job Gary!

-- spanky46 -- Never enough clamps...Never enough tools...Never enough time.

Very nice Idea I’ll use it for my own needs Thanks…

-- David '65

Thanks for all the kind words, folks! Looks like a lot of us are in a similar situation of not having enough space for our materials.

GaryK – Believe it or not, I long considered using the attic area as a little solar kiln! Wouldn’t be able to put very much in there, of course :)

JJohnston – It was even worse when I was in Burbank. The valley also contends with soot from mountain fires. I remember a few weeks after a cleaning noticing a gradient from the kitchen wall out into the floor. It was dark by the windows. I wiped it up and it turned out to be some kind of little glassy dirt particles blowing in from the windows and settling on the floor. It was only about 8’x5’, but I knocked about a half-teaspoon of the particles out of the rag after it dried. My bathroom had a ~1’x1’ sliding window, always open (2nd story), with a huge evergreen bush ball of a tree right outside it. The first huge wind storm that came by after the new year blew so much dirt into the bathroom through that window that it didn’t just settle – it piled. It looked like someone had been potting plants in the tub. It was horrible. Whenever I blew my nose, the tissue would have black soot in it. All of the windows were the split-down-the-middle sliding kind, so I went out and bought tall pleated air filters (for AC units, typically), pinched them between the sliding bit and frame, and then duct taped around the edges to seal them in place. The dirt problems stopped, and I breathed a sigh of relief. At my next place in the marina the carpets were so dirty (though you couldn’t tell looking at them) that when you walked once across the room in white socks, they were black by the other end. My feet would get blackened quickly, too. I rented a carpet shampooer and went through several fillings, emptying out horribly dark water into the tub each time. I never got it to stop sucking up black, sooty dirt. I just gave up in exhaustion after my 3rd pass around the room. Amazing how filthy it is here. You can wash a car and stick it in the middle of a mall overflow parking lot with nothing else happening there all week, and when you pick it up, it’s completely coated in dirt. You have to run the windshield wipers with the spray to clear them off. In fact, I do that 2x a day out here, before I go to work, and when I come home at night. It’s covered in particles each time :(

stefang – no ventliation at all, but in a year now, I haven’t noticed anything bad going on. It is pretty dry here. It smells nice when I open it, like proper, dry wood. It stays pretty cool inside, too. I actually worked to make it mostly air-tight. It still has little cracks where air can escape, but they’re even too small for the majority of spiders. I’ve found only 1 tiny spider making a web in the 3rd stall after about 9 months of use now.

-- Gary, Los Angeles, video game animator

Gary, great shed! I have 40’X60’ barn, 24’X34 shop, 10 acres, 2 car attached garage and I still do not have room. Wood workers like you amaze me turning out such great projects. I may use your idea to build a garden shed someday.
Keep up the good work.

-- Mike The Termite ~~~~~ Working safely may get old, but so do those who practice it.

OH MY GOD IT’S ON FIRE…..

-- ~ Inspiring those who inspire me ~

Hi Gray,

Looks to nice to store lumber in. Great job.

-- Dennis Zongker

It sure is a nice looking storage unit ! We are scrambling this week here at my place to get some additional storage , weather covers up also before the Santa Anas get cranking .There is never enough room !

-- rob

Gary, Great storage solution. I so wish I could build something like this but my HOA would have fit.

CtL

-- Chris L. "Don't Dream it, Be it."

Hey Gary,

Great looking shed. I’m actually thinking about building one myself so I can move my non-woodworking “stuff” out of my 2-car workshop. I can relate to you on the Focus, I have an ‘07 hatchback. I have also transported 8’ material, scary close to the windshield, huh?

v/r
Jason

-- Jason - Palmetto, FL - Aim High!! -

Jason – Sure is! Having the windshield slope back so much, and the tailgate slope forward really decreases the available long-storage a lot. As I said, 26 2”x4”x8’s and that’s it, because of the slopes. The 26th just barely fits to the right side of the passenger seat’s head rest, and then suddenly the next 2×4 is like 5” too long for the hatch to shut.

-- Gary, Los Angeles, video game animator