8×10 garden shed plans
A potting-bench shed with a window over the bench.
Eight by ten is the classic garden shed: enough floor for a bench down one side and tools down the other. The window on the right wall sits at bench height, and the door is built on site from a sheet of the same T1-11 as the walls.
Customize this shed What's in the plan
Opens in the designer with this shed loaded. Change anything first — the build package is $10, drawn for the shed you end up with, and the watermarked preview is free.
The design
- Footprint
- 8' × 10' · 80 sq ft
- Walls
- 7'-0" high · 2x4 studs every 16"
- Roof
- 5:12 gable
- Roof structure
- Rafter ties across every pair of rafters, with a ridge board at the peak
- Foundation
- Skids on grade
- Siding
- T1-11 panel
- Overall height
- 9'-8 5/16", from the bottom of the foundation to the top of the roof
- Doors and windows
- Door, built on site — front wall, 38" × 72" rough opening
- Window — right wall, 24" × 24" rough opening
Permits. Inside the limits commonly exempt from a building permit, including the stricter 120 sq ft some places use.
From the plan
Pages from this shed's own plan, as the free preview shows them: every member drawn where it goes, with the figures left for the bought copy.
What's in the build package
20 dimensioned drawings and a 16-step build guide, in this order:
- What this package is, and what it is not
- A build guide, in the order the work happens
- Four framing elevations and a section, dimensioned
- Floor and roof framing plans
- A framing drawing for each wall
- Sheet layouts for the deck, each wall and the roof
- A detail of every rough opening
- A detail of every door it builds
- A door and window schedule
- A bill of materials
- A cutting plan, board by board
- Groundwork, fasteners, weatherproofing and finishes
Make it yours
Wider, longer, a steeper roof, a door on the other wall: change it in the designer and the drawings, the bill and the cut list follow.
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