Hey guys! Our first big project at our new house is complete! My husband and I worked tirelessly every evening to get this project finished and I am so excited to share it with you!
So a little backstory - we inherited this shed for free from my husband's grandfather. We just had to pay to have it moved. I will share my cost with you so that you can estimate your own she-shed project. To have the shed moved and leveled, we paid about $750.
It was a little beat up and dated but in great condition. It was only a few years old. We had it moved close enough to our garage so that we can run power to the shed. Here is the interior - it had two lofts but we removed the one over the door to open it up a little bit.
We added power by tapping into our garage and digging about an 10' trench to the building. We are lucky enough that my father-in-law is an electrician so we didn't have to pay for this part. An estimate would be about $500 to have the power added.
Our next step was insulation. We originally tried to keep it inexpensive by using cardboard. I had read online that it was a sustainable and cheap way to insulate an out building. I would not recommend this for living quarters. However, we ended up not doing that idea and switched to a foam insulation that you can easily cut with a blade. We added drywall to the wall areas as well. This cost us about $1500 in materials including additional lumber to make the walls square. We also added in peg board to the back half, under the loft space. And we added an additional window that we scored off of Facebook Marketplace ($20)!
When it came to the flooring, we toyed with a few ideas but ultimately I decided that I wanted a rug or carpet to be soft under foot. We ended up purchasing an 8x10 rug at Lowe's for about $130. The tile in the entry way was some leftover 12x12 we had from another project. The paint color is Comfort Grey by Sherwin Williams. We added in an air conditioning unit for about $150. This was the smallest I could find that cooled about 500sf. The shed is only about 100sf so this thing gets cold!
We added in trim pieces and some acoustical ceiling tile that we ordered from Amazon ($60).
We had the exterior painted by our painter, he charged about $500. He used an oil based primer to protect the wood and then exterior latex house paint for the white. My husband made the planter box for me.
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