by Jennifer Young | Apr 11, 2024 | Building, Design, Projects, Sheds
Building the front wall of Rich & Katie’s shed required framing two door openings in a load-bearing wall. Today we learn how to frame a door opening…and do a whole lot of math to make it happen! 😎 The front wall in place by the end of Day 5 Welcome to...
by Jennifer Young | Feb 4, 2024 | Building, Design, Projects, Sheds
The back wall in place by the end of Day 5 Welcome to the 4th Installment of Building Rich & Katie’s Shed There are just a few things to know about building a shed wall to support a roof. We will have to solve the particular problems associated with building...
by Jennifer Young | Jan 27, 2024 | Design, In the Garden, Inspiration
Orchids, forests, landscapes, and the visionaries who designed them: these are a few things that inspire me. On a recent trip to the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, I photographed orchids in the Biltmore Conservatory, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. While there, I...
by Jennifer Young | Jan 5, 2024 | Building, Design, Projects, Sheds
Rich & Katie’s shed in November of 2023 DIY Shed Designing the Build In May, we birthed a design for Rich & Katie’s diy-wood-sided shed, which I wrote about in Rich & Katie’s Shed I. That design grew from trying to solve a major problem:...
by Jennifer Young | Dec 15, 2023 | Design, Projects, Sheds
Problem ↓ Solution ↓ Design A shed design, like every project (I think) begins with a problem that begs a solution, and proceeds toward possible solutions that eventually birth a design. So began the story of Rich & Katie’s shed. Rich & Katie’s...
by Jennifer Young | Dec 3, 2023 | Building, Design, Projects, Sheds
My Garden Shed Every project (I think) begins with a problem, and proceeds toward a solution that births a design. So began the design for my own beautiful little garden shed, which I built in 2019. This shed design evolved…I didn’t see it coming. This is...
