Garden Shed

This sweet, sweet shed was the humble beginning of Holmes Design. I learned how to use a jig saw, then a circular saw, and table saw in this shed. It watched me grow into a more competent woodworker as the days and years went on. Unfortunately on the evening of June 27, 2022, a massive branch from our pecan tree in the backyard fell and crushed my shed. This forced me to move my workshop to the front yard and into the bed of my 1968 ford F100. It was hard because I was bound by weather and limited in my tool use.

We had the tree removed from the shed but it took a while for the weather to cool and for us to find time to repair the shed. Fortunately in the meantime, I found a workspace and moved my shop. This allowed me to grow beyond my wildest imagination. We never quite got the shed back to its original state but I think we did so much better than we could’ve imagined.

A friend of mine guided me and helped me through the rebuild of the shed roof. Without the help, I could’ve done it but it would’ve taken so much longer. We rebuilt the roof using 2x4’s and clear corrugated roofing. My favorite part of the project was figuring out the trim on the shed so that water did not penetrate the sides that we had repaired. Adding windows as well as a special piece of stained glass, made by my husbands god-mother, made the shed feel so much more like me and allowed in an extraordinary amount of light to come in. Picking the bright pink color for the exterior just felt right and really made the shed pop against the greens of our backyard.

By the time I had completed the shed I had unfortunately outgrown it as a workshop. I had gained a van that I was planning on converting into a camper, a new table saw that would take up majority of the space inside, and a desire to make that needed space to be wildly creative. Today the shed sits in the backyard. I miss working in it everyday but I have added a pottery wheel, turning this space into some sort of a studio where I can learn pottery.