Storage sheds, finished before they arrive

Start with what is going in

We build storage sheds for Saint John and surrounding areas, and the job they do is plain. Keep the rain off what is inside. Open wide enough that the mower comes out without scraping the frame. Sit level on the base instead of settling into one corner.

Most of the thinking is about what goes in. A ride-on mower wants double doors and a ramp. Bikes, rakes and the kids’ sleds want wall space. Seasonal gear wants a walk-in door you can open with one hand while the other holds a box. Tell us what is going in and the shed gets sized and laid out around that.

Then pick the shape. A gable roof is the plain, familiar one. A barn-style gambrel roof gives you more room up high, which is where the things you only reach for once a season end up.

Why not a kit from the store

With a kit, the building work is still in the box, and it becomes yours. Instructions, a lawn covered in panels, and a shed that is only as square as the ground was on the day you put it up.

Ours are framed, sided, roofed and fitted with doors in the shop, under cover. The shed comes to you as one piece on the trailer and gets set down where it is going to stand. What you are paying for is a finished building, not a box of parts and your own time.

Siding, roof and doors

The outside is where you decide how the shed looks from the kitchen window. Vinyl lap siding is low-fuss and matches a lot of houses. Board and batten reads more like a barn. Rough-sawn cedar, live-edge boards included, has a grain you will not get off a shelf. Steel siding goes on too, in colour. Match the house trim, or let the shed stand out on purpose.

On top, asphalt shingles or a steel roof, coloured or galvanized. For doors, plywood double doors with a wooden latch are the simple choice. A walk-in entry door suits a shed you go in and out of every day, and a window keeps it from being a dark box when the doors are shut.

Every shed on this page is one we built.

Garden sheds and lean-tos

A garden shed earns its keep by being close to the beds. Put it where the work is and the pots, hand tools and bags of soil stop living on the back step, and the trip to fetch a trowel stops being a hike.

A timber ramp at the doors lets the push mower and the wheelbarrow roll straight in. Strap hinges and a proper latch are small things, and you notice them every time you open up with your hands full.

A lean-to roof slopes one way and keeps the building low. It suits a small shed in an open spot, where you would rather not look at a tall roofline from the house.

The quickest way to a price is the form below. Pick storage or garden, say roughly what is going in and where the shed will sit. The quote is free and it is not an order. If you would rather talk it through, call the shop.