| A few years back my wife and I bought our first | | | | I finally broke down and built a little shelter for my |
| house, until then it had been apartment living for us. | | | | wood. I found the plans my neighbor had given me |
| Back then the thought of firewood storage shed | | | | and took them to the hardware store to get a |
| plans never entered my mind. | | | | quote for the materials. I them drove over o the |
| However, now that I was a homeowner a lot of | | | | local lumber yard and they beat the price by more |
| extra responsibilities came along with the title. It is | | | | than 10%. |
| super expensive these days to hire craftsmen to do | | | | The shed consisted of three walls and a roof and the |
| anything for you, so I was forced to learn how to | | | | floor was actually cinder blocks over some plastic |
| build my own projects and that is where I learned | | | | covering to keep the moisture out. As I stacked the |
| about plans. | | | | wood I placed mouse poison deep inside so dogs or |
| Since I have a fireplace for the first time and it's | | | | other wild life could not get to it. |
| really cool, I never thought much about where I | | | | I tried stacking the wood as loosely as possible to |
| would get the wood to burn or where I would store | | | | make sure there was good airflow. I got my wood |
| it, so for the first year our beautiful fireplace went | | | | towards the end of winter and put it in the shed to |
| unused. | | | | season up a bit in time for the following winter. |
| One night we were having dinner with the neighbors | | | | I recommend that if you have a fireplace, you build |
| and he offered me a set of firewood storage shed | | | | yourself a firewood storage shed and that you get a |
| plans and also me told me where I could get the | | | | good set of plans to build it. I have learned that |
| wood. | | | | having a good set of plans for any wood working |
| Getting the wood was the easy part. I actually got | | | | project will save you time and money. |
| mine from the back of a truck, but you can also get | | | | Make sure you price shop, take your plans to a few |
| wood from ads in the newspaper or your towns | | | | lumber yards and hardware stores for quotes, this |
| trading post. I just wasn't sure how capable I was at | | | | way you can save a lot of money. Your firewood will |
| building the shed, so convincing me that I needed to | | | | be dry and clean and will burn easily. There is just |
| build some kind of storage shed for the wood was | | | | nothing better than a warm crackling fire on a cold |
| much harder to do and I actually refused to do it | | | | winter night. |
| that first year and ended up with wet rotting wood. | | | | |