Get your entries in for Shed of the Year 2009

There's only a month to get your entries in for this year's Shed of the Year 2009 competition: May 3 2009 is the closing date. More details at Shedblog, naturally.

To get you in the mood, so to speak, here is The Shed, Silver Spring, MD USA, owned by Chuck Witmer, as seen on readersheds.co.uk. It's used as a woodshop by Chuck and a painting studio by his wife Jessica (she's having an exhibition in there in June if you're in the area). It uses plenty of recycled materials and it also boasts a sleeping loft. Could your shed beat it?

International Shed of the Year 2009 winner

Congratulations to Chuck Witmer of Silver Spring, MD, USA, whose The Shed is the winner of the 2009 International Shed of the Year (which by happy coincidence we featured earlier in the year). Here's what he says about it:

"The need for a woodshop/painting studio was unavoidable once we bought our own house and our family began to grow. I was building furniture out of our finished basement until we decided that the saw dust in the ducts was not the best for our lungs. My wife was painting out of the 3rd bedroom until we had our first born Eli which required the need for her space to become a guest room. I designed this accessory building to achieve the space necessary for the continued success of my wifes painting career and the passion to design/build and make furniture."

More photos of the build at Chuck's Flickr site and more details about the judging (I was part of the panel) at Shedblog.

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