Shed Annexe

The shed annexe is done, and it's looking damned good. I'm particularly pleased with the visual design on this one. This build has been fitted in over quite a few months and it is only now that the intended design has suddenly emerged out of the building works.

I love it!

As a reminder, here is Shed Phase 1. Fabulous in itself, but only half the story...

I raided the architect's archive and found the original design.
This picture appears crude (well, actually it is), but it is all that was needed to burn the final result into the brain. After that, you just need to follow the way until you get there...

Detail of the two sections. There are a few subtle visual design choices here:

• The angles of the roof sections match the houses that back onto the garden. The pattern of a gable end attached to a perpendicular roof matches the terracing behind it.
• The  long horizontal window profile is mirrored. This shape is to allow a panoramic view outwards, but minimise the window area in the profile of the building as seen from the outside
• The colour palette mimics the surrounding trees. The sombre greenish colour of the door was partly to chime with the green roof felt, but also works with the dark greeny brown colour of wet tree trunks and branches. The muted brown cladding matches both leaves and earth.
• The cladding is actually different on each section. The main building has featherboard. The Annexe has planed tongue and groove (due to scavenging opportunism). To blend these together, I've applied a stain to both using roofing pitch diluted with white spirit. This was not applied evenly, with deliberate blotches and streaks added first before a wash coat. This ties the knots and grain of the woods together visually

I have done some rudimentary landscaping in front of it. The lawn raises up about a foot. This blends the shed into the ground when viewed from a distance. You can barely see them, but there are two hazels planted in front of it. Within 2 years, these will be higher than the shed and it should sit nicely  into the garden landscape.