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I started building some outbuildings on my property, about five years ago.
I built a handcrafted outhouse, and a small handcrafted outbuilding that was five feet by five feet, sort of a garden place. It had one single board and batten door, with hand forged strap hinges that I had laying around. From that building I decided to build a six by ten storage shed, and, just for the fun of it, I had a bunch of salvage materials laying around, I decided to make that look old.
The roof framing is so strong that its never going to sag, but I put an intentional sag in the roof, just to add a little character to the roof line, and I cut a tear drop design on the ends of the rafters to give a more crated look.
I didn’t really think about starting an outbuilding business but I did get a lot of joy and satisfaction out of building a shed that actually looked like it was there even before I started the house. Once I started putting ideas down on my sketch pad and talking to people about it, it all started to come together. These are functional little buildings, with many many uses: work shops, artist studios, summer homes, little guest houses for weekend visitors, kid’s playhouses...
Your cottage here looks as if it belongs in Colonial Williamsburg. Are these buildings period pieces?
While our structures look old and
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