Historic Shed’s most recent project was constructed in Tampa’s historic Seminole Heights neighborhood to complement an interesting, and virtually unchanged Craftsman bungalow. The owners needed to replace a metal shed that had reached a state of extreme disrepair and wanted the new building to reflect the design of their home.
This Burgert Brothers photo shows the main house shortly after construction. The house looks very similar today, with the exception of the unusual roofing material that looks like an embossed roll roofing. Anyone know what it is?
The old shed had served the property for many years, but termites had eaten most of the framing, there was a dirt floor and a tree was growing through the side.
The shed, designed by Historic Shed, incorporated the low roof slope of the main house, outriggers, exposed rafter tails, siding and traditional trim.
The 14′x14′ wood storage shed has a 4′ deep porch with a wood deck, two wood windows, paired cypress bead board doors, and a 5-V Crimp metal roof.
The shed features paired cypress bead board doors with heavy duty hinges.
The 4′ porch will provide shade for potting plants for the yard.
While we were working on the shed, we had the pleasure of working alongside guys from Redman Fence. This is the second time we’ve worked on a job at the same time as Redman. Very nice guys that do really nice work.
Click the images below to see a slideshow of the entire shed construction process.
It took longer to post than expected, but here’s our most recent shed project (completed yesterday).
I will also post an album here on our FB page shortly.
Fabulously beautiful.
Unbelievable! we just got back from Seminole Hieghts 2 hours ago.Went shopping at Oceanic Store then spent 1.5 hours driving around the neighborhood checking out the Bungalows.Wish we knew the location today
Very nice! If you were asked (or maybe you have been?) to incorporate brick or stone work into one of your Sheds, would/could you do it?
Chris Somers It depends on where the brick or stone would be used on the building. We’ve done brick piers for a foundation before and could certainly do a brick or stone stem wall foundation to set the building on. Whatever we build at the shop has to be transportable.
Dave Capitola I’m sure you saw lots of great homes though. Love Seminole Heights!
Thank you for the fine work. We’re very pleased with our new shed. We’ll let you know when the backyard looks a little less like the trenches of WWI for some better photos. As to the original roof in the Burgert Brothers photo, while I don’t know what the material is, I wonder if it was meant to look like Japanese rolled eaves? I was recently reading about the James Allen Freeman house in Pasadena, CA and was immediately reminded by the accompanying photos to the article.
This would be a great house to be on the Seminole Heights Home Tour next year!!
Sounds good to us!