Modern Detached Garden Shed and Building Ideas and Designs

Is it a sauna? A greenhouse? Maybe a guest house? None of the above! This modern looking structure is used solely for storage. The key for Kathleen and Mark B.'s Tuff Shed building was customization. They worked for quite some time to determine a landscape plan for their home, and wanted their new storage building to have the same amount of care and design focus. When they came to Tuff Shed with a modern design plan, the team delivered.

Tool Tidy 4'x2.5' in Willow Green - delivered and assembled

The Cosy Shed Co.

Taken by our craftsmen during assembly....

Grasshopper Studio

Wittman Estes Landscape

Nic Lehoux

Modern Shed

ARK CONSTRUCTION GROUP

Joseph Hymers

10x20 Gorgeous Storage Shed

Studio Shed - Live Large. Build Small.

Clerestory windows are a signature item on our Studio Sheds - this allows for magnificent light whether it be to find that long-lost stored item, or to work from home. Customize your Studio Shed by painting the soffits and siding your desired color.

Greenhouse Pool Cover

Meridian Estate Greenhouses

The Biohort Highline Designer Shed

Garden Storage Online

The ultimate tool shed, which meets all the requirements in every respect for safety and functionality. The Biohort garden shed HighLine® fulfils the highest standards! Available in 3 great colours. For all those, who are looking for the best with regard to quality and design – the top product of Biohort conceived by industrial designers. The modern flat roof and the integrated all-around skylight make the garden shed HighLine® a pleasure for one’s eye. The 3-way locking mechanism with a cylinder lock ensures optimum security. The opening and closing of the door works semi-automatically with the help of a gas assisted spring damper. Moreover, all this is absolutely maintenance-free!

Little Sojourner Tiny House

Hauslein Tiny House Co

1 QUEEN BED 1 BATHROOM 6M LONG 20 SQM

Custom Shed Interior 10x8

Backyard Buildings

One of our sheds customized with loft. Customer added his many tools and equipment. Looks like he has plenty of space to spare.

Robert M. Seel, AIA

3.6m x 2.4m garden office, with larch cladding, a large ‘picture’ window and french doors in smart anthracite grey frames. The garden office also featured a one piece rubber roof with ‘kerb’ edges and gutter drop off, with water from the roof being harvested into a large waterbutt. To the ‘unseen’ side and rear of the garden office we used a very durable and extremely complimentary black ‘box section’ corrugated steel sheeting. The garden office is finished with an Oak floor, plastered and painted walls and a birch ply ceiling. With all the walls, ceiling and floor insulated with 60mm thick kingspan insulation ensuring this garden office can be used all year around.

White Rock

Drop Structures

Twin Studios in Blue Lake Springs

Modern-Shed

House Refurbishment

Schneider Designers

Modern Shed London Ontario

Backyard Escape Studios

IndigoJungle Garden Studio

Vanessa Cribb

Architecture by Marc&Co Build by MCD Constructions InteriorStyling by IndigoJungle Landscaping by Steven Clegg Design Photography by Alicia Taylor

Garden Music Room, St Leonards on Sea

Create a Space Ltd

Ellensburg Complex

Modern-Shed

A tight shot of both Modern-Sheds added to a pre-existing outdoor living complex in Ellensburg Washington. The blue one serves as a bedroom, the yellow as a living room. Dominic AZ Bonuccelli

Modern Garbage, Recycling and Green Bin Storage Shed

Redwood Sheds

Modern shed for garbage, recycling and green bins

New Garden Shed

RMS Architecture

Robert M. Seel, AIA

Modern Detached Garden Shed and Building Ideas and Designs

Our garden sheds and outdoor buildings don’t have to be dumping grounds for tools, bikes, bins and all the extraneous items that haven’t found a home inside the house, instead they can be whole new spaces that you can turn your design eye to, just like any other room of the house. If you’ve lived in a small house or flat with no outside space, you’ll appreciate the added bonus an additional structure can give you. Homeowners across the UK and Ireland are transforming garden sheds, building garden offices and extending their homes to create modern garden rooms to really make the most of the space we have, because as we know, in some places in the UK and Ireland, space is like gold dust.

Which garden building should I go for?

It always makes sense to work with what you have, so if you have a garden shed already, think about how you could use it if you cleared it out and gave it a lick of paint. If you have nothing to work with apart from space and a budget, then the logical process is to think about what you need the space for. Garden sheds only need to be as big as what you need to store within them, so they could be an easier and cheaper alternative structure to a full garden building if you just need to store garden items, tools and bikes somewhere. If you have loftier ambitions and dream of a modern garden building that will be an additional living or working area, a separate garden room could be the answer. Large converted garden sheds or purpose built garden rooms can be used for separate work offices, studios, creative spaces, living areas, pool houses and so much more. With luxuries such as wireless internet and underfloor heating, and endless paint and decor options, the possibilities for your modern garden building are boundless. For the environmentally-conscious, eco-sheds featuring solar panels are an energy-saving solution that could benefit your household, and garden pods – prefabricated pod buildings for use as an office or extra living space – are easy, ready-to-go garden structures that are usually eco-friendly and energy efficient. Working from home often calls for a dedicated home office away from the distractions of the rest of the house, so garden offices or studios offer the ideal set-up: completely separate from the main house but close enough for emergencies, food supplies and bathroom breaks. They will also hopefully offer a peaceful and focused environment in the tranquility of your garden. Buildings in your garden don’t always have to be about practicality. You could let your imagination run wild and escape to the woods with a modern treehouse, and then your garden would certainly be the envy of all the children in the neighbourhood. Rope walkways, ladders, turrets, slides and firemen's poles are enough to keep any child occupied for hours on end. Even if you don’t have children yourself, an elevated wooden shelter attached to a tree is a good a place as any to enjoy your outdoor space, and isn’t that usually what garden buildings are all about? Besides the extra space they give you; garden rooms, summerhouses and converted garden sheds are wonderful for their location – outside in your garden. When the summer months come around, and we hopefully enjoy some good weather, all you want to do is spend as much time outside and with a garden building it’s possible to do so without compromising on furniture, shelter and all the amenities of indoors.

What design should I choose for my modern garden shed or garden room?

Sheds come in a full range of materials – metal and plastic garden sheds may prove more durable and weatherproof but classic wooden garden sheds offer the most opportunities for creative expression. If you’re thinking of a bigger structure, and appreciating your garden or outdoor area is important to you, large glass bifold doors can transform your garden room into a light-filled sunroom that opens right out onto your garden. For eco-lovers and those that want to retain a lush garden look, grass covered walls and roofs will help your garden room to blend in with its surroundings or wooden cladding will also give a natural look if you don’t want to to go all out with the grass. When it comes to your interior design, a habitable, high-spec garden room is really no different from any room in your main house, so the decisions will come down to personal style, taste and needs. Whatever outdoor structure you’re thinking of building or converting, be it a modern garden shed, treehouse, garden office or summerhouse, you’ll be able to find inspiration for all of them by browsing the photos on Houzz. Define your search by area, style or size to find what you want more easily.

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