Once you get the go-ahead to build, you have four options: build a shed yourself, purchase one off-the-shelf, or purchase a quality pre-fabricated shed or a custom designed shed.

Every backyard deserves a good shed to give you loads of room to store a bunch of supplies. But buying a shed can be pricey. Moreover, it's a cop-out. It's much better if you build your own. If ...

But I would also like to build a basement/cellar under the shed. Is this something that’s worth doing? I could dig a hole and then support the walls of the shed with timber.

Empty nesters Patti and Joe Mertz have lived in their Lake Oswego home for 29 years. Patti, a marketing consultant, and Joe, in medical sales, had talked casually about building a garden shed in ...