Building for yard

Hi everyone.

This one has nothing to do with the inside of the house....well, not technically anyway. We had a building built in our back yard, but we got mostly the basics except for we asked for the walls to be taller. I wanted a barn style roof on the building, but that would have added another $1,000 to the price, and lets just be honest here....I am what my daddy used to call a tightwad. If it were really something important to the building, like making it stronger or making it last longer, I would have been all in, but just because I liked it better was not worth it. We also decided to pay $100 extra for the double door, that way we could get large items in and out of there easier. But if you notice,  there are no windows on the building and the inside of it was just 4 walls when they were done with building it.

The reason we decided to not put windows in were that they were $200 for each one they had to put in, and we had 2 brand new windows that we had purchased on Craigslist (Craigslist will become your best friend when doing big projects on a budget) for $45 a piece some time back. We were going to use them in our old garage, but ended up moving before we could do that renovation. We can put those in at a later date sometime. We did want to utilize the space inside the building though, so Brian and I spent two days out there in the freezing cold building a loft and shelves on one end. It only cost us $380 to do that. If the company had built the loft alone, with no extra shelves it would have been $500 more. See the savings of a little hard work and freezing your butt off???

Now most everything is to one side and up off the floor so you can walk in and see everything without having to step over it all. We are sooooo happy with this investment.  We had purchased a newer suburban a few months back, and had our old one for sale, so when it sold the week before the building was built, that paid for it all but $200.

The company that we hired, had it built in 2 days from the ground up and they are a local family run company. The man and his two sons came out and did all the work. I like buying local and helping the small business out, sometimes it is not always cheaper, but in this case they were WAY cheaper than the larger companies and especially like the buildings you see outside of a Home Depot that you can have built. I am talking $2,000-$5,000 cheaper. We are super pleased with this building and the quality.

My husband and I talked about it for a few months on whether or not to build it ourselves, but with the time it would have taken us to do this, and the urgency of the need, we decided with all the money we had saved so far on our remodel we would spend the $3,400 for the building. We couldn't begin the process of building the new additions after the first of the year without this building to hold all of our "crap" as Brian likes to call it.

Here are a few pictures of it going up and all the way finished with our additions of the loft and shelves that we built.

From the start of it going up....

The finished product....

The shelves that we added and the loft. You will be amazed how much this holds....

It holds so much stuff...We emptied out half of a really large 2 car garage into this space and some in the other areas that you will see, like furniture that cant go on the shelves.

This is the middle and other end of the building....still loads of room for storage in there.

LOVING IT!!!