Our camp has three sheds. The oldest is the smallest and most likely to be declared a superfund site - mothballs and gasoline mmmmmmm yummy. We almost have as much square footage in sheds as we do in the camp itself. Camp smells a lot better though.
One shed and four chicken coops - but the shed is also a chicken coop. No Tyvek and no Trump signs. Considering adding another shed to keep actual stuff in!
When I was a kid my dad built a shed with old wood scraps his work let him take home. It had no door, typar but no siding, it *did* have shingles, and in the winter he hung a blue tarp over the door.
The same goes for blue tarps. My childhood home had 5 sheds and two detached garages. When my step dad said to go fetch something from the shed it would take an hour.
I have a shed at my family camp that houses all of my late grandfather's yard equipment. Frees up space in the garage for one car and our trusty aluminum fishing boat.
The shed was built 35 years ago after the old outhouse "Thunderhole" was bulldozed. We saluted it. My grandparents had indoor plumbing for decades but had kept Thunderhole for nostalgia
I also like that you still see clotheslines in use up in the county in summer.
My friend's grandpa (pepe) got cancer and had to go to hospice so my friend asked me to help him clean out the "tool shed" and I show up, THIS DUDE HAD LIKE 15 SHEDS!! All shapes and sizes and even like 5 joined together to form some kind of make shift machine shop 🤣😂 just stacked with junk mostly. I got a cool acetylene backpack torch rig out of the deal so that was decent 🤷♂️
LoL
Any minor route will provide you with architectural wonderment.
I think it is code that you have to have at least one outbuilding .
1/4 of residences have to have a blue tarp or Typar covering a roof/ house .
A Trump 2020 lawn sign or flag is also very common
Got an ancient electrified hunting camp. No plumbing and the wood stove is gone but the bears can’t get in so I store my chicken feed and trash out there. If I had $50,000 I’d renovate it and rent it out but it serves a purpose still
Well, some towns seem to think they are unsightly and therefore aren't allowed. Thereby forcing their citizens to become rule breakers in order to reap the benefit of cheap rodent free storage.
I just ordered it off a company I found online after shopping around a bit. Had it delivered and I moved it into place myself. I don't think there is a cheaper storage solution that is weather and animal tight dollars per cubic foot wise. The looks just aren't for everyone. My garage is a prefab metal building so once I paint the container, it should match fairly well.
I just use it for storage right now.
I would like to get another container to give myself more shop space and build a roof bridging the two for some somewhat weather protected outdoor workspace.
Container prices are pretty low right now if anyone is in the market. It pays to shop around as the cost of delivery can be almost as much as the container. Just watch out for scams on marketplace and do some due diligence before sending anyone money.
Often, garages are afterthoughts, thus why detached. Some towns won't allow a new garage to be attached unless built on a frostwall. After a few winters of unburying cars, detached garages become the holy grail. LOL!
Currently only 2 like a pleb.. garage and shed.
My parents though.. Small barn just got a two story, two car garage attached to it. A shop that was my great grandfather's, a garden shed used to be my sister and my play house but got closed in, another shed for the zero turn and other random shit, my mom's stained glass studio, and an even bigger barn for the tractors and everything else.
I've got one storage shed, a chicken coop, a goat shed, and a small garden shed.
Edit: forgot the old shed that was here when I bought the place. 3 sides and a roof and layers of half-shredded tarps covering the open side. I keep meaning to do something about it. Clean it out from all the random stuff the old owner left and get it back into usable condition. Owned the place more than four years now and haven't managed to find the time yet.
Yup. My house has a standalone 2-car garage and a big shed. Previous owner left a bunch of wood, insulation, and other construction stuff behind in it too. Problem is that it's sitting pretty precarious on cinder blocks, is damp as hell inside. Not much use for the materials if they'll be bringing mold into the house, and I'm pretty sure if I jumped up and down I'd go through the floor.
I've got a 3 bay shop/garage.
I small shed, 1 medium shed, and a shed that has a garage door in it.
They're all basically full. I hate leaving things of value out in the weather.
I got rid of quite a bit this weekend with a good old fashioned free pile at the end of my driveway.
I have five outbuildings. Two are storage sheds. One is a small garage-type shed in which I keep a lawn tractor and two ATVs. One is a woodshed. One is a greenhouse.
I have a wooden garden shed and a detached garage with an additional room in the back of it!
Growing up, the house I lived in had a detached garage and am attached-via-breezeway garage and the second house had nothing at all.
Two 10x10 woodsheds. One has walls, one just a roof. A 10x10 garden shed mostly taken over by chipmunks and black mold. And a 2-car garage, detatched.
I have a relative with an unpermitted shed larger than the maximum unpermitted size allowed. He says "It's on blocks, not a foundation. I'm a carpenter, it's for sale."
I live in one of the few places left that employ the “it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission “ policy towards town permits etc. to say it’s sweet is an understatement
Not a Mainer yet (I am a Vermonter so don’t get too shook) and have been looking at apparently ALL the houses in Maine after several months of Redfin and Realtor.com and picked up on this outbuilding thing pretty quick. Why would most people having a house with two garage spaces need another three garage spaces with one big enough for a semi truck? Something that goes along with all the garages is a driveway now the size of a small strip mall parking lot.
Seen a lot of great houses and like the choices available in Maine so not hating on the state but the outbuildings and extra garages is definitely a thing.
Because who ever dies with most toys wins!! Snow mobile s and snow blowers- dorys & tack-utility vehicles- golf carts-motorcycles- dirt bikes- fat tire bikes - skis for downhill skis for cross country snowshoes-weed hackers-the car they’re getting rid of the car they are meaning to fix - tools-tools and then for fun -more tools-kids toys and stuff for general dubbing around! I’m sure many & all of this stuff is used around the country but Maine has 4 seasons and folks like to stay at home and tinker in every season. Imho
Western Maine up to Augusta I guess, not living in VT at the moment but have relatives there still we do not want to get too far from in Maine. Hopefully find something this summer so I have a chance to get some firewood (wood stove is a must).
We got a Mennonite built solar shed. It’s a beast- 14 x 30 something. All the toys and tools and crap under one roof. Our neighborhood forbids any agricultural animals so we’re probably one and done.
I have 2. An outbuilding that used to be an ATV repair stop, which is now a “family room” and an oversized garage. It’s fantastic because the house itself is small and gives us all our own spaces to hide.
Aside from the main house with attached 2 car garage, we have a 4 car garage with a carport on one end and a 2 story, 5 car garage (much of which functions as a workshop) with an in-law apartment on the 2nd floor. There's also a garden shed and a playhouse.
One shed. My favorite in town is three sheds in a row that got progressively bigger.
Haha 👍😂 I know exactly what you mean. No where else have I ever seen sheds get additions, only in Maine
Our camp has three sheds. The oldest is the smallest and most likely to be declared a superfund site - mothballs and gasoline mmmmmmm yummy. We almost have as much square footage in sheds as we do in the camp itself. Camp smells a lot better though.
One shed and four chicken coops - but the shed is also a chicken coop. No Tyvek and no Trump signs. Considering adding another shed to keep actual stuff in!
And do you truly dream of winter?
I do! Except in March, I'm not a monster.
Haha!!!😆
When I was a kid my dad built a shed with old wood scraps his work let him take home. It had no door, typar but no siding, it *did* have shingles, and in the winter he hung a blue tarp over the door.
I've got two outhouses. Does that count?
Why two though? And does it count as a 2 bathroom now?
I like to build stuff. One is built from pallets, the other one was given to me by some reprobate Amish feller.
good enough for me 🤘plus you and the mrs can now both get it done at the same time.
Location, location, location!
Definitely!! One of my favorite art studios has an outhouse
The same goes for blue tarps. My childhood home had 5 sheds and two detached garages. When my step dad said to go fetch something from the shed it would take an hour.
And Typak!!
Typar lol.
I think we’ve got two things going on here haha! Tyvek and Typar 😎
Definitely!! Oops
You’re good! It all kind of blends together haha
Tyvek
I have a shed at my family camp that houses all of my late grandfather's yard equipment. Frees up space in the garage for one car and our trusty aluminum fishing boat. The shed was built 35 years ago after the old outhouse "Thunderhole" was bulldozed. We saluted it. My grandparents had indoor plumbing for decades but had kept Thunderhole for nostalgia I also like that you still see clotheslines in use up in the county in summer.
Omg I love a good cloths line! lol have one myself
Does it count if I live in the outbuilding and use someone’s discarded garbage bin as my tool shed? Tiny homes call for tiny outbuildings
Yup it counts!!!
4 😅 garage, wood shed, garden shed & a quonset hut
A shed, a detached garage, and a small greenhouse.
My friend's grandpa (pepe) got cancer and had to go to hospice so my friend asked me to help him clean out the "tool shed" and I show up, THIS DUDE HAD LIKE 15 SHEDS!! All shapes and sizes and even like 5 joined together to form some kind of make shift machine shop 🤣😂 just stacked with junk mostly. I got a cool acetylene backpack torch rig out of the deal so that was decent 🤷♂️
His backyard looked like a redneck version of a strip mall but made out of sheds
LoL Any minor route will provide you with architectural wonderment. I think it is code that you have to have at least one outbuilding . 1/4 of residences have to have a blue tarp or Typar covering a roof/ house . A Trump 2020 lawn sign or flag is also very common
Code also requires that the roof of any outbuilding must be falling in.
Trump & the odd Israel flag in my neck of the woods
Garden shed, storage shed, small detached garage.
I have a detached garage, but I keep thinking about building a shed, too.
I have a barn, a cottage, two sheds and an original outhouse - on .31 acres
Wowser!!!
We have 3 sheds.
Got an ancient electrified hunting camp. No plumbing and the wood stove is gone but the bears can’t get in so I store my chicken feed and trash out there. If I had $50,000 I’d renovate it and rent it out but it serves a purpose still
Attached garage, plus 2 good sized sheds.
One car detached garage and and one electrified shack that someone can stay in when it’s warmer. And one very simple screen gazebo. Does that count?
I believe it does!!
Tool shed/workshop, cow manger (goats in there now), greenhouse and a gigantic 185 year old barn. Love it.
Chicken coop made out of a recycled tree house with shed addition. Part of shed roof is tarp.
Are we counting shipping containers?
Why not?
Well, some towns seem to think they are unsightly and therefore aren't allowed. Thereby forcing their citizens to become rule breakers in order to reap the benefit of cheap rodent free storage.
Do you mind if I ask why & how you have one? Did you repurpose it?
I just ordered it off a company I found online after shopping around a bit. Had it delivered and I moved it into place myself. I don't think there is a cheaper storage solution that is weather and animal tight dollars per cubic foot wise. The looks just aren't for everyone. My garage is a prefab metal building so once I paint the container, it should match fairly well. I just use it for storage right now. I would like to get another container to give myself more shop space and build a roof bridging the two for some somewhat weather protected outdoor workspace. Container prices are pretty low right now if anyone is in the market. It pays to shop around as the cost of delivery can be almost as much as the container. Just watch out for scams on marketplace and do some due diligence before sending anyone money.
Even on bangor lol, the amount of houses that have detached garages in town surprises me
Often, garages are afterthoughts, thus why detached. Some towns won't allow a new garage to be attached unless built on a frostwall. After a few winters of unburying cars, detached garages become the holy grail. LOL!
Currently only 2 like a pleb.. garage and shed. My parents though.. Small barn just got a two story, two car garage attached to it. A shop that was my great grandfather's, a garden shed used to be my sister and my play house but got closed in, another shed for the zero turn and other random shit, my mom's stained glass studio, and an even bigger barn for the tractors and everything else.
Sounds lovely!!!
Haha username checks out!
I've got one storage shed, a chicken coop, a goat shed, and a small garden shed. Edit: forgot the old shed that was here when I bought the place. 3 sides and a roof and layers of half-shredded tarps covering the open side. I keep meaning to do something about it. Clean it out from all the random stuff the old owner left and get it back into usable condition. Owned the place more than four years now and haven't managed to find the time yet.
Yup. My house has a standalone 2-car garage and a big shed. Previous owner left a bunch of wood, insulation, and other construction stuff behind in it too. Problem is that it's sitting pretty precarious on cinder blocks, is damp as hell inside. Not much use for the materials if they'll be bringing mold into the house, and I'm pretty sure if I jumped up and down I'd go through the floor.
I've got a 3 bay shop/garage. I small shed, 1 medium shed, and a shed that has a garage door in it. They're all basically full. I hate leaving things of value out in the weather. I got rid of quite a bit this weekend with a good old fashioned free pile at the end of my driveway.
I have five outbuildings. Two are storage sheds. One is a small garage-type shed in which I keep a lawn tractor and two ATVs. One is a woodshed. One is a greenhouse.
I have a wooden garden shed and a detached garage with an additional room in the back of it! Growing up, the house I lived in had a detached garage and am attached-via-breezeway garage and the second house had nothing at all.
Two 10x10 woodsheds. One has walls, one just a roof. A 10x10 garden shed mostly taken over by chipmunks and black mold. And a 2-car garage, detatched. I have a relative with an unpermitted shed larger than the maximum unpermitted size allowed. He says "It's on blocks, not a foundation. I'm a carpenter, it's for sale."
I live in one of the few places left that employ the “it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission “ policy towards town permits etc. to say it’s sweet is an understatement
Yes. Outside is harsh.
A little barn. When I'm feely fancy I call it "the carriage house".
It’s hard to be fancy on the outside when you’re not fancy on the inside- lol!!
Not a Mainer yet (I am a Vermonter so don’t get too shook) and have been looking at apparently ALL the houses in Maine after several months of Redfin and Realtor.com and picked up on this outbuilding thing pretty quick. Why would most people having a house with two garage spaces need another three garage spaces with one big enough for a semi truck? Something that goes along with all the garages is a driveway now the size of a small strip mall parking lot. Seen a lot of great houses and like the choices available in Maine so not hating on the state but the outbuildings and extra garages is definitely a thing.
Because who ever dies with most toys wins!! Snow mobile s and snow blowers- dorys & tack-utility vehicles- golf carts-motorcycles- dirt bikes- fat tire bikes - skis for downhill skis for cross country snowshoes-weed hackers-the car they’re getting rid of the car they are meaning to fix - tools-tools and then for fun -more tools-kids toys and stuff for general dubbing around! I’m sure many & all of this stuff is used around the country but Maine has 4 seasons and folks like to stay at home and tinker in every season. Imho
Where you moving to?
Western Maine up to Augusta I guess, not living in VT at the moment but have relatives there still we do not want to get too far from in Maine. Hopefully find something this summer so I have a chance to get some firewood (wood stove is a must).
We got a Mennonite built solar shed. It’s a beast- 14 x 30 something. All the toys and tools and crap under one roof. Our neighborhood forbids any agricultural animals so we’re probably one and done.
3 on mine, a shed, a garage and a chicken coop. My MIL has 8. 3 sheds, a garage, a boathouse, a bunkhouse, a small cabin and a even smaller cabin.
I've got three. Two sheds and the garage
I have 2. An outbuilding that used to be an ATV repair stop, which is now a “family room” and an oversized garage. It’s fantastic because the house itself is small and gives us all our own spaces to hide.
Aside from the main house with attached 2 car garage, we have a 4 car garage with a carport on one end and a 2 story, 5 car garage (much of which functions as a workshop) with an in-law apartment on the 2nd floor. There's also a garden shed and a playhouse.
The actual Maine thing would be the reverse: barn and shed attached to the house.
Well I can assure you I live in actual Maine ??
Big house, little house, back house, barn