American's and their Shops !!!

[SteelArt]

It is funny when I read through these forums that most of the shop / garage builds are more like houses than what we would call shed down here ( I am in Australia).

A shed to us Aussies is usually a steel frame with tin walls and a roof which looks, well like a shed. It seems that most of the US Builds look more like houses or period items etc.

Do you guys artually have shed stye sheds ? as in colour bond setups ?

Like this for example :

 

[BOONEY7750]

Yes those of us that are lucky do. I am not rich enough yet, but someday! There is a lot of money on this site, most Americans have a 1+ or 2+ car garage. Also we have to battle for space with the wife and kids.

 

[bazzateer]

I think they tend to refer to those as barns, as I would. To most Brits a shed is a small timber building in the garden for gardening stuff etc. A shop is where you go buy things. A garage is, well a garage! A workshop is where you build/fix/service stuff and can also be a garage.

Basically, each to their own really. Same word means something different in different countries.

 

[SteelArt]

When I was in the USA the year before last we looked at buying a house and I got very excited when I found all these houses which had what they listed as "Shops" included. I thought it meant they were zoned commercial and I could work from home and a shop came with the place.
I was very dissapointed when I went and looked at some and found they were just garages lol

 

[ecotec]

in michigan, the building in the picture would be considered a "pole barn". a huge one. a lot of cities would not allow it unless you owned a minimum acreage. in my city, you can only have a garage or pole barn built up to a certain percentage of the height of the house (without a variance), only a certain percentage of the footprint of the lot square footage wise (without a variance)... lots of rules. the rules get looser with a bigger amount of property.

like booney said, we have to battle with our old ladies and kids (not me yet. my first is due dec 18th), mowers, snowblowers, lawn equipment... for garage space. i am supposed to be closing on a house soon. eventually. i would like to build a garden shed (we are allowed 200 sq. ft.) to house the lawn equipment and some of our vintage vespas.

 

[ecotec]

to have a shop on the property that one could run a business out of, you have to be zoned residential/commercial. on top of that, if you park a commercial truck in your driveway you would need permission from the city and the neighbors (this is not always enforced. but, if you have an evil neighbor... they could make your life hard.).

 

[SteelArt]

ok, that one posted actually is a barn.



Has an upstairs room my kid has claimed though:


And with some luck soon I will finish the access walkway :

 

[ecotec]

that is a beautiful structure. i would love to have a big playroom like that. is your weather moderate enough to use most of the year?

 

[milkovich]

Why didn't you use the whole slab?

Seems like you left some money on the table!

 

[NUTTSGT]

Why didn't you use the whole slab?

Seems like you left some money on the table!

My guess is that is where the pens are.

 

[stingry]

I think they tend to refer to those as barns, as I would. To most Brits a shed is a small timber building in the garden for gardening stuff etc. A shop is where you go buy things. A garage is, well a garage! A workshop is where you build/fix/service stuff and can also be a garage.

Basically, each to their own really. Same word means something different in different countries.

Over here in the colonies. this is a barn!
View media item 5975 built in 1917 to house livestock ... collection of old cars. Cheers:beer: Steve

 

[larry_g]

Steelart
Looking here on this forum you see a lot of great things, by whatever name you call them. But looking here is like subscribing to Hot Rod magazine and assuming that all cars in America are hot rods. You will find hundreds of sheds in this country for every 'man cave' that is posted here. Any forum that has to do with material items is biased toward showing off the highend stuff. Look at my build to see the low end of what is here but more normal in the big picture.

lg
no neat sig line

 

[cashishift]

Over here in the colonies. this is a barn!
View media item 5975 built in 1917 to house livestock ...beer: Steve[/QUOTE] Go Big Red!!!!! :bounce:

 

[Red Green]

Like larry said my shop is nothing worth taking pictures of. I have a couple Semi trailers behind it to store a lot of the junk that I should throw away but I keep saying I might need that.

 

[jam0o0]

in texas as soon as you get outside a city there are more steel framed barn/shop/garages than wooden framed ones. at least that's how my family tends to build things.

 

[ishiboo]

in michigan, the building in the picture would be considered a "pole barn". a huge one. a lot of cities would not allow it unless you owned a minimum acreage. in my city, you can only have a garage or pole barn built up to a certain percentage of the height of the house (without a variance), only a certain percentage of the footprint of the lot square footage wise (without a variance)... lots of rules. the rules get looser with a bigger amount of property.

like booney said, we have to battle with our old ladies and kids (not me yet. my first is due dec 18th), mowers, snowblowers, lawn equipment... for garage space. i am supposed to be closing on a house soon. eventually. i would like to build a garden shed (we are allowed 200 sq. ft.) to house the lawn equipment and some of our vintage vespas.

Agreed. In Wisconsin lots of houses have pole barns. They are usually wood-framed, some are true pole barns and others, like my current, are conventional stick-built construction, but they have the metal siding/roof.

In most cities/towns, there are size limits and setback requirements that make you unable to build most pole barns, but once you hit an acre or more it seems every other person has one!

 

[babzog]

Nice shop! My shed is just a board and batten pole-type structure, somewhat out of square, that I store my lawnmowers, weed whackers, gardening stuff and other misc **** that doesn't belong in a shop. Oh, and I store firewood in the other half of the shed too. My shop, OTOH, is a 20x24 structure, concrete slab, currently being insulated and finished and is where I work on projects.

 

[fergus]

Here in Northern California, there's lots of agricultural acreage. Most acreage properties have some kind of outbuiding. Most of those built in the last 50 years look like the "shed" you posted. Anything built before that was likely a wood livestock barn, with post and beam construction and cedar or redwood siding.

Ozzy ozzy ozzy OI oI OI

 

[fflintstone]

In the first picture the building on the left is a barn or in my case a shop. The building in the middle is a shed and the one on the right is my house. The next picture is the same shed after it was moved and a lean to added to it. The final picture is what I call a lean to a 3 sided structure to store **** you would like to keep rain off of.

 

[ecotec]

Agreed. In Wisconsin lots of houses have pole barns. They are usually wood-framed, some are true pole barns and others, like my current, are conventional stick-built construction, but they have the metal siding/roof.

In most cities/towns, there are size limits and setback requirements that make you unable to build most pole barns, but once you hit an acre or more it seems every other person has one!

exactly, they will not let me build a pole barn on a 1/3 acre suburban lot. i would love one, though. i would need a variance to build a shed over 200 sq. ft.

i used to love in a small town in mid michigan, and we had a pole barn. my dad had his '54 MG TD in it.

 

[HOTFR8]

It is funny when I read through these forums that most of the shop / garage builds are more like houses than what we would call shed down here ( I am in Australia).

A shed to us Aussies is usually a steel frame with tin walls and a roof which looks, well like a shed. It seems that most of the US Builds look more like houses or period items etc.

Do you guys artually have shed stye sheds ? as in colour bond setups ?

Like this for example :

A nice looking Shed. I like the upstairs.

 

[SteelArt]

that is a beautiful structure. i would love to have a big playroom like that. is your weather moderate enough to use most of the year?

Weather isn't to bad, we are in the process of insulating the upstairs at the moment and then plastering it.

Why didn't you use the whole slab?

Seems like you left some money on the table!

The wings walls are their for the animal stalls which are stepped down 2" from the main slab to allow hose out and easy cleaning. I built it like that as I wanted to keep them seperate from the actuel centre section

 

[drmoonshine]

It all depends not to generalize us but it really depends on where you live and how many people live in your house to determine how big your garage will be.

 

[spencejm]

Go Big Red!!!!!

Uh, no.

This is our year!

Joe

 

[Busted_Knuckles]

In my neck of the woods, we have a garage, a barn, and a shop, all different, all for different purposes. We park in the garage, the horses are in the barn, and work is performed in the shop. None of which, I think look like a house. Oh, and a shed, well we have those too, but they are usually small, and for storage, or some other small building needs. These are all in my yard...But that is my neck of the woods (northern Illinois).

 

[JSBriggs]

I think they tend to refer to those as barns, as I would. To most Brits a shed is a small timber building in the garden for gardening stuff etc. A shop is where you go buy things. A garage is, well a garage! A workshop is where you build/fix/service stuff and can also be a garage.

Basically, each to their own really. Same word means something different in different countries.

Garages store cars, barns store livestock/farm equipmwent, and sheds store garden equipment. A shop is where you build/make stuff.

Shop is essentially the shortended version of workshop.

-Jeff

 

[Coolabah]

Garages store cars, barns store livestock/farm equipmwent, and sheds store garden equipment. A shop is where you build/make stuff.

Shop is essentially the shortended version of workshop.

-Jeff

...agreed. Sometimes though , boundaries blur 'cos we can't all afford to have a hamburger with "the lot"
- my shed is 10 foot x 10 foot- for the garden stuff
- my garage is also my workshop - park the 2 cars there then the other half is for my "shop"

 

[Coolabah]

It is funny when I read through these forums that most of the shop / garage builds are more like houses than what we would call shed down here ( I am in Australia).

A shed to us Aussies is usually a steel frame with tin walls and a roof which looks, well like a shed. It seems that most of the US Builds look more like houses or period items etc.

Do you guys artually have shed stye sheds ? as in colour bond setups ?

Like this for example :

Yep , exactly like my 3x3 metre ( 10' x 10' ) shed but a teeny weeny bit ......taller ??

 

[taylorguitar]

sure we have sheds...that's where the lawn mower, garden tools, fertilizer, out grown bicycles, broken grills, and other junk we don't want in our shops. it's all in where you are standing...some name a garage something you park cars in, others what you work on cars in...I personally call what most americans call a garage my shop. it's not for storage, its for projects and maintenance. sheds are for storage on this side of the pond.

 

[v7guy]

taylorguitar said it. I have a 1.5 car garage and it's a "shop" in that it only houses a car, benches, tools, parts, and spare motors. it's not a big space, but it's completely geared to work on a car in reasonable comfort.
I have a shed I'm getting ready to build to house all the yard tools. Yard tools should never inhabit a garage.

this is just my opinion though

 

[SteelArt]

by all these definitions I have a Barn, A Shed, A Garage and a Shop ... oh and a House somewhere to.....

 

[Test Tech]

As a few people mentioned, in the American suburbs like where I am outside of detroit most of us will have a 2 car garage and a small shed for lawn/garden equipment. I have an attached 23' X 26' garage and an 8' X 12' shed. Most of the improvements to my garage are about work more than comfort. Although I have added a nice stereo, based on a 12 volt supply, a car radio, and four three way 6" X 9" speakers in the corners of the ceiling.

 

[Ign]

It is funny when I read through these forums that most of the shop / garage builds are more like houses than what we would call shed down here ( I am in Australia).

A shed to us Aussies is usually a steel frame with tin walls and a roof which looks, well like a shed. It seems that most of the US Builds look more like houses or period items etc.

Do you guys artually have shed stye sheds ? as in colour bond setups ?

I think there's a language barrier. I don't know the following words or terms:
-artually
-stye
-colour bond

edit: oh, and the subject is merely Americans (plural) not American's (possessive)

 

[HOTFR8]

Color (Colour) Bond is a metal material popular here used for roof and buildings. GOOGLE it.