During a visit with a customer a small watercolor caught my eye. The painting showed a shed-like building perched on top of a single pole by a railroad crossing that had been done in the 1920s. Apparently these buildings were railroad signal towers. Located at intersections that were heavily traveled, the signal operator would notify [...]
We recently completed a project for a great customer who had saved a variety of cypress boards that she wanted incorporated in her new home office shed. We used the wide cypress planks to build the desk and shelves, and installed the random width pecky cypress on the ceiling of the 12′x14′ shed. Pecky cypress [...]
Historic Shed is pleased to be a sponsor of the College Park Neighborhood Association 20th annual historic home tour. Taking place on Sunday, November 14th from 12:30-5 pm, the tour will focus on eight unique College Park homes on the east side of Edgewater Drive. A highlight this year are two of the oldest [...]
This Saturday we will be participating in the street vendor portion of the Historic Kenwood Neighborhood’s 12th annual BungalowFest home tour. The Saturday tour runs from 10 am-6pm and features 11 restored/renovated historic homes. Some of Historic Shed’s window screens and screen doors can be seen on the neighborhood homes (including the home below, [...]
Below is a video tour made by small building aficionado, Derek Diedricksen, at the reconstruction site of Henry David Thoreau’s simple cabin in Walden Woods. Thoreau said, ”I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it [...]
We recently posed a the following question on our Historic Shed Facebook page:
Am thinking we need a theme song, but can’t come up with anything but “Love Shack”. Any other shed/cottage songs out there?
We received several great/funny responses that I thought we’d share here on the blog. Hope you enjoy!
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