project: shed

It's been a busy week for our shed.  It's pretty big at 12'x16' - probably the size of some people's NY apartments!  We put down a new floor on Tuesday which only took about 4 hours including hauling everything out of the shed and putting it back on.  Today I pressure washed and scraped paint on the front and side of the exterior and I'm hoping to get it primed and painted in the next few days!  For now, it just looks like I've ruined the outside of the shed.

Can I just say how amazing it is to be able to walk around the shed and not have to be on the lookout for all the holes in the floor?  It was really dangerous because the floor is just over a foot off the ground so I think that you really could get hurt stepping through a hole!  It's still a bit bouncy as you walk across, but that's what you get from 6" wide floor joists I guess.  We just put the plywood on top of the MDF, agreeing that since it's just a shed, it wasn't worth the hassle of removing all the MDF and putting in wider floor joists.  Lazy or practical?  You can judge, but I don't care : )

 

the original shed floor made of MDF - not a good choice!

Looking good, the first two pieces of plywood down!

the old media shelving boat gets a perfect new life here in the shed!

the exterior after the scraping and pressure washing... it looks totally wrecked but the paint is hardly stuck to the plywood at all and keeps flaking off!