Sheds and cabins

One problem that people frequently face is fitting their car into their garage. The reason for this is simple, the garage offers an opportunity to store just about anything. Not only that, you can store things against walls, on shelves, in the roof space (if the garage has a pitched roof) and just about anywhere else. Garages can quickly become store rooms for clutter and general rubbish that people are reluctant to throw away.

The result of all of this is that over time many garages cease to be homes to cars and evolve into general storage areas for anything that has nowhere else to go. Once this starts it is difficult to stop and, even if your car will still fit in, you may not have sufficient room for an electric garage door like a roller garage door with its motor and cylindrical roller storage compartment.

The way to resolve or prevent this scenario from developing is to have an additional undercover storage building and this is where cabins, huts, sheds and summer houses can be the solution.

Having some kind of cabin or store building provides a place to store everything from garden or patio furniture to bags of compost, tools, a barbeque or even unused items of furniture. Importantly, what this storage building also does is free up the garage for the purpose for which it was originally intended, namely housing a vehicle.

Storage options

Store buildings come in many forms from timber sheds to plastic, metal and upvc lock-ups. They can be very small, or large enough to accommodate chairs, a table, a work bench or even an outdoor kitchen setup.

The external appearance can vary every bit as much as the size with some basic sheds having a lean to roof with no window and a basic door. Others have a pitched roof, a door and one or more windows. You can even get shingles and gutter on the larger models.

In most cases the inside of the shed, cabin or hut is a bare canvas. This means that it can be modified and formatted for almost any purpose. Some people use larger sheds as summer houses or external occasional rooms, but most see them primarily as extra storage space. When this is the case shelving, cabinets or other efficient storage units can be attached or added to the shed to improve its efficiency.

Most sheds are stand-alone structures, but if required they can be tagged on to the back of a garage or house and they can be given a basic floor surface or a proper suspended floor.

In terms of storage space, the bigger the cabin the more that you can fit into it. However, it helps to have a central walk in area so that you can store or stack things up on both sides of the access point. Packing too much in to a small hut can cause problems if and when you need to finds or do something.