hi, is that fence on the back yours or the neighbors? option (a) doesn't give you a lot of room to shimmy around it. i have an old 8x10 aluminum shed, i'm getting ready to clean out and dispose of the crap inside. choose a shed design that has shelves (more the better), because floor space will fill up fast. you don't mention the base? i helped a buddy a couple months ago put up a home depot shed for a friend. nice shed, made a concrete slab for it to sit on. this was 10x12.

At my last house I had an 8X10 shed, and while it stored the things I needed it was cramped. At this house I bought a 10 X 12 shed and it is quite satisfactory. It has a Barn type roof. The one at the old house had 5' side walls, the current one has 7'. The higher wall means that you have more room to walk around inside of the shed and have room for a loft in the roof above the work area..

My inventory of yard equipment, a JD lawn tractor, yard trailer for the tractor, a chipper shredder. I have space for two 12"X30" 5-shelf units and a work bench that is about 24"X 36". This gives me room and a place to check the oil on the leaf blower and string trimmer and do small jobs at the work bench. The loft gives me room to store things like sprayers, spare tires, and other necessary junk that you need in the yard.

Based on my experience with these two sheds I would recommend the 10'X12x with 7' side walls

Thanks for the replies.. The fence is my fence.. 18 inches wasn't horrible to shimmy around.. I am a bigger guy and I can get myself through 18 inches.. However I can't say that I would be comfortable trying ot work in an 18inch space.. Although, ideally I wont have to do much in that kind of space..

As far as the base goes, we are looking at a concrete base.. There is a slight slope in the area where we are looking to put the shed.. Looks to be about a 5 inch difference over 10ft.. Which leaves me with the issue that he front of the shed will be raised.. Not much, but enough where I think a step or ramp will be beneficial.. This of course eats into the space in front of the shed.. I believe we are going to have to go with the 8x7.. It is smaller, but we really don't have much to put in there.. I know we will always find things, but hopefully with a smaller shed we will learn to let go of the things we dont really need.. And like I said.. We really are only storing a push lawn mower, pressure washer, dethatcher, few bags of top soil, and maybe some minor pool items.. I think think we will need much space overall.. And the last thing I want to do is crowd the yard and make things look awkward..

the shed knuttle described above is the style shed we just put up. i liked the loft style roof, extra space. when i clear mine out i'm going to find a way to make shelves, those flat aluminum sheds are kinda limited. good luck with your pad.

300ft-anin: My wife has a lot of house plants and over the years we have collected several of the heavy plastic shelf units for those plants. When we got our shed, I wanted shelves and started to collect the materials to build them. Then I realized that I had several of the shelf units that I was putting in the loft. I set them up "temporarily".

Seven years later, I find that I actual like them when compared to the wooden or similar materials. The plastic does not absorb oils and grease. The way the shelves are designed you can install the upside down and capture those oils and grease in the tray and not running on the floor. I keep my chain saw in one of those trays and periodically wipe out the oils.

PS: I used porch paint on the floor, but it has been seven years and needs to be repainted. What did you use on your shed floors?

dad and i, built a platform for it to sit on. perched on deck blocks. the floor was, i'm not sure what i'm going to find under all that crap? 3/4" (good quality) plywood. hoping to find most of the floor intact?? i'm thinking of using a couple 50's kitchen base cabinets i found at an estate/demo sale. nice sturdy metal, fully enclosed to keep the vermin at bay.