Achieve Home and Storage Shed Cohesion with Exterior Options
Jan 7th, 2011 by Kathy
In the past, a storage shed was made from wood scraps and provided just enough protection to prevent the rusting of a hammer and nails. Nowadays, the exterior of your backyard shed acts not only as a functional compartment for tools, but is also more of a visual focal point than it would have been on a homestead on the prairie. Whether it’s the siding, doors, or the outdoor work space available, decking out an attractive exterior allows you to maximize its addition to your property.
Proper Siding Joins Your Storage Shed with your Home Design: Just like the siding on your home, there are plentiful options for siding your garden shed. Dura-Temp and Vinyl siding are well-known for being maintenance-free. Dura-Temp combines a solid plywood core with a Douglas Fir wood composite face that is easy to paint, while Vinyl siding requires an occasional cleaning to keep it looking shiny and new. If a more natural façade is desired, make it a Pine Shed or Cedar Shed to create an entirely different effect with naturally resilient cladding for your potting shed. Besides their obvious matching vernacular to a log cabin home or the surrounding trees, natural oils of pine and cedar preserve the siding, offering better insulation than non-wood options.
Extra Wide Doors and a Porch Space Help Create Space: If you use a lawnmower, ATV, quads, or other vehicles, install extra wide doors for easy access and see the potential space and organization of your storage shed reach its maximum potential. Another way to work with the space that a backyard shed creates might be to add a small porch outside. Using a shed with a porch provides an unexpected landing that is great for extending your work outside under the roofed portion of the outdoor shed on a warm (or rainy) afternoon. Use it as creatively as you wish as a space to drape freshly-laundered clothes or as a sheltered place to read if the work bench inside requires extra motivation.
Add lasting durability and a cohesive home and garden shed effect by considering all of the exterior options available.
