Build Your Own Arrow Red Barn Shed

My wife has a really hard time parting with any of her old junk. She is a real packrat. It doesn’t matter what it is; she keeps all her old clothes, shoes, magazines and more. Our garage and attic are filled with her treasures and once I saw the basement storage in the same condition, I was forced to deliver an ultimatum. Either she had to throw away some of her junk or she had to rent a storage unit. Either way, I wanted the mess cleaned up. It came as no surprise when my wife told me she couldn’t part with her junk and she didn’t want to pay for a storage unit. Her solution did surprise me. She was going to build her own Arrow red barn shed.

The shed would go out back right behind our garden and would provide us with all of the additional storage space we would need. I told her I thought it was a great idea, but I must admit I was more than a little skeptical about the prospect of her building the shed on her own. My wife is indeed good with her hands, her father was a carpenter, and she knows how to put things together. But sometimes she has a tendency to procrastinate, so I wasn’t sure her little project would ever get done.

Imagine my surprise when I saw her outside on Saturday morning unloading the materials for the arrow red barn shed and gathering the equipment and tools she would need to build it. She had purchased the storage shed along with the floor foundation and anchoring kits. She assured me that the shed would be done by the end of the weekend and started right to work. I was surprised at how hard she was working on this project. I guess she didn’t want to waste any time finding a new home for her treasures.

As the weekend progressed, she set the foundation and started to work on the floor. I was keeping an eye on her progress while I worked in the garden. I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen her work so hard. By the end of the day she had erected all four walls and had started on the roof. Even though I’d had my doubts, it really was starting to come together nicely. It looked like a cute little house.

As the next day ended the job of building this shed was almost done. She just had to add a few finishing touches. She installed a shelf kit for additional storage and started clearing out one side of the garage. She put all of my gardening equipment along with all of her stuff in the shed. I couldn’t believe how much that little shed could hold!

Over the next few weeks I transferred some of her “valuables” from the basement out to the garage. I cleared a great deal of space for things we really used. While I admit I was more than a little tempted to toss some of her junk away, I figured my wife had earned the right to hold onto it at least until we run out of space again.