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If you’re a hobbyist gardener looking for garden shed ideas, why not take it a step further and create a dreamy backyard retreat that’s stocked with both essentials and stylish extras to turn it into an additional living space? From reclaimed and rustic to sleek and chic, take inspiration from these garden sheds in a range of styles and sizes to create a backyard retreat that will help you maintain your garden and self-care.
Small but full of light, this planting shed, or craft house as owner Donna Reyne of Tinkerhouse Trading Company calls it, is the perfect place to start a few seeds or repot a plant. The pea gravel and pavers make for a clean, dry entrance and are the perfect place to set up a few containers and even a raised bed. It’s the little details in the wood carving and arch of the windows that make this home so elegant.
Blogger Ursula Carmona of Home Made By Carmona built a DIY garden shed and greenhouse oasis in the backyard. Designed with the same care she used to decorate her home, the space is both practical and an inviting place to spend time.
Hardcore gardeners sometimes like to keep their tools and clutter out of sight. If that’s you, check out what Charlene of Organized Clutter did with the customization of this shed from one of the big box home improvement stores. The bright green hedge is the perfect contrast to the weathered gray of the paint, and the galvanized steel planters complete the color scheme. With a little paint and elbow grease, you can make any prefab shed your own. The latticework at the bottom of this shed suggests that it sits on a raised foundation on a dry and level layer of pea gravel. This is a garden shed that is meant to work and last for years.
If you’re just using your garden shed to store tools, light isn’t crucial. However, if you want to create a place to hang out and display your garden tools and plants, you’ll need as much natural light as possible.
Cindy Gardner of the blog French Grey has created a beautiful place to pot new plants and watch them grow. The multi-pane windows provide plenty of places to display pots where they’re easily accessible when needed. The vines inside and out blend the outside with the inside of the shed.
Ursula Carmona of Home Made By Carmona used reclaimed windows to build this DIY garden shed and greenhouse. Painting the windows black adds a dose of chic to the outdoor space. A large work table with a black painted base blends in perfectly.
This garden shed is as beautiful as it is practical. Kevin from The Nitty Gritty Dirt Man tells us how he built this 10′ x 10′ storage shed. He made sure there was room for all the essentials, with shelves, drawers, a planting table and even space for the lawnmower. There’s a radiator for heating, although the slanted windows have to do their part to keep the shed warm. There’s nothing better than walking into a planting shed in late winter to sow some seeds and smell the scent of wet soil.
Ursula Carmona from Home Made By Carmona used gold accents to add some sparkle to her backyard garden shed, like this rolling cart. A chair with a botanical print cushion creates a place to rest and look at the plants and flowers.
Lobster and Swan transformed this English country-style garden shed into a creative space for reading, writing, and painting watercolors. Decorated with a reclaimed wood wall, art, vintage furniture, and dried flowers, the space becomes a wonderful oasis for creating and recharging.
The interior of this glamorous garden shed by blogger Ursula Carmona of Home Made By Carmona is decorated with black and gold botanical wallpaper and framed botanical art that reflects the surroundings.
This greenhouse in the backyard garden shed by The Traveling Apartment includes a lounge area decorated with lanterns hanging from the ceiling, secondhand art, and an armchair and round table with a portable lamp for after-work use.