The Temple

The Temple - Kirkharle - Northumberland - Historic from Kirkharle - Northumberland - UK #shedoftheyear

In this first of an occasional series, we're going to start highlighting our favourite entries for Shed of the Year 2019. So here is The Temple in Northumberland which belongs to plantsman and historian Angus McTavish (Thompson). A labour of love which took half a year to build, using mainly salvaged timber. More details at the link above.
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How to build a garden office: Parts 5 and 6 (video)

Richard Fearon started this series of videos about building a garden office back in November (you can see them all collected here) and in the latest two episodes he looks at repairing rotten doors for his shedworking construction plus some cold painting work. Both are well worth a look and quite brief.


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Joel Bird's allotment roof shed mark II

Readers will be familiar with Joel Bird's awardwinning Shed of the Year shed in 2014 as well as his excellent book The Book of Shed (and his marvellous new one just out called The Table Maker). He is now at work on a new shed build as his social media feeds show.

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Stairs back up now on my new allotment roof shed. Not easy to lift these on my own. You can see how the curve of the roof preserves next doors sunlight. #allotmentroofedshed #shedbuilding #stairwaytoheaven

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You can see more details of the build at his instagram feed here which also includes the electrics for his speakers and an interesting stair feature. -------------------------------------------------
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The sermon of the garden shed

An intriguing 'sermon' by Rev Andrew Watson, minister of the Presbyterian congregations in Dunfanaghy and Carrigart in Co Donegal, in The Irish News takes as its starting point the delights of sheds. Rev Watson searches for the lessons to be learnt from shed ownership including "Firstly, if we think of the old shed, its timber rotten and its frame ready to collapse, we have our first lesson - the limitations of a patch job." An unusual take on the world of sheds and worth a quick look. ------------------------------------

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Entries are open for Shed of the Year 2019

 

A quick note to remind you that entries are now open for Shed of the Year 2019. You need to send in/upload at least two photos of your shed, an inside and an outside one, plus some details about it. Sadly, if you don't have an image with your entry, you can't win the top prize. Or indeed any of the prizes. You also need to be living in the UK/Ireland, although there is an international title at stake too for those outside the UK. As before, judges will select a shortlist of the best, the public will decide on category winners, and the judges will then pick the overall best in show. Entries from previous years will roll over although you can add new images. Good luck!

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Sheds in The Idler

The latest issue of The Idler is out now with my usual column about sheds inside (and also about snooker for those of you interested in baizecraft). It's a look at Shed lit, the books that every shedworker and shedowner will want to have handily on his or her bookshelf featuring the likes of Jane-Field Lewis, Sally Coulthard, Kathryn Ferry, Joel Bird, and Michael Pollan. Click the link above to find out more and subscribe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Building a garden office: part 2 (video)

We're highlighting a couple of 'how to build a garden office' video series at the moment. Here's the latest episode - see bottom of this post - from web designer and developer Jack McConnell's build (you can see part one here). Here's what he says about it:

This second video is mostly a 2-week timelapse of all the deconstruction and re-construction work that happened in my garden as a result of this. The work included removing a large hedgerow, replacing all the fences, installing a new side-gate, and adding a compacted hardcore pad ready for the office foundations to sit on. I wasn't going to add a hardcore pad at this stage but as the digger was there and the company I was using were well priced, I decided to get this done at the same time. Although not in the video, it turned out the trees in the hedge were so rotten that a couple of them snapped in half when pulling them over, punching a large hole in the old fence before it was fully removed - a good job I had it all replaced!

All the insulation for my garden office build just arrived! Really pleased except it’s filled my garage :/ May need to re-think how I’m going to store my materials.

— Jack McConnell (@jackmcconnell) January 9, 2019

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