Shed of the year 2024, Sponsored by 
This is my workshop, my cave, my outdoor space away from the family (until it is time for dinner, when the kids ring the bell that I have wired up from the kitcken to ring in the shed). I built it from green oak ordered from a local Surrey sawmill - and challenged myself with all mortice & tennon joints pulled tight with home made dowels. In fill is a mixture of brick, feather edge board and (just for fun) wattle & daub (countryside straw + wimbledon common clay & dung!) The walls roof & ceiling are all insulated - so it is snug even in the -10 degrees last winter and not even the secret stash of goodies in the secret cellar froze! There may not be a lot of room (it is aprox a 2m cube)but we even managed to build a boat in here!
I guess for many what you do with/in your shed is what is key, and for others building is key. I needed a shed/man cave - but I also love building & designing - so half my challenge was the actual build. Hand crafted as much as I could - OK after the first 20 mortices I bought a mortice cutter, but I cut all the dowels by hand from green oak, and trod the straw & clay by foot for the walls. Raised off the damp from the ground it is dry-as- a-bone with care on the roof to keep out the rain and care on the glasing of the "tudor" windows (toughened glass when there are tools inside & kids outside) I had envisaged a little pot bellied stove for dark winter days - but there's not enough room - and anyway with cavity insulation all round it is so snug that 10 minutes sawing & hammering and a large whiskey mac is enough to keep warm even a foot of snow outside.
