We’ve been building this shed for over a year now. Between the cold of the winter and the heat of the summer, this has been the biggest project I have ever taken on. The past few weeks, we’ve been preparing the shed for paint.
I sanded the body of the shed with 80 grit sand paper with my random orbital sander. This allowed me to take off the glaze from the mill when the wood was being processed.
The doors and corbels were sanded to 150 grit because we were planning on staining these elements. I filled the nail holes with some outdoor wood putty as I wanted the doors to have a finished look without a bunch of nails holes in them.
My wife, Anita, went to Ace Hardware and bought Aura paint and primer by Benjamin Moore. This paint isn’t cheap at $70 a gallon, but we wanted to make sure the shed had the best finish on it so we wouldn’t have to repaint it every other year.
With two coats of primer on it, we let the shed sit for a few days before we applied the top coats.
The body was painted with two coats of Galveston Gray.
The shed was starting to look really nice. The top trim and the windows would be painted with Iron Mountain.
We picked Cedar Bark stain from Sherwin Williams for the doors and corbels. The shed is nearly done, but I still need to make a trellis over the side window and build a small deck underneath the doors. Getting real close.
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This looks awesome.
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Thanks!
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that is nicer than my house. great color selection.
why didn’t you hand plane the exterior?
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I was going to, but my Holtley plane is still on backorder. ; )
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Totally jeleous of that shed. I look at that and think it would make a great “bench room addition” to The Tiny Shop. Nice work, nice work indeed.
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haha. Don’t make me reconsider using thing as a shed to hold garden tools.
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Congratulations, it really looks good.
Sylvain
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Great shed.
So much care on to the built!!!
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The shed is looking great! Really like the color choices you made. I bet the natural light inside is absolutely amazing.
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It is. The morning sun coming over the trees beams light into the shed from the big side window. It’s almost a shame this thing is just a shed to hold garden tools instead of a small little workshop. i won’t show you the inside of it when it’s full of crap, so as not to ruin the mystique. haha
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I think I could be a bench and a bed in there and never come out except for wood and beer.
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Nice job 😉
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