ShedForce know about shed and shed security – It’s true we see ourselves as shedperts (shed experts). Over the years we have discovered a shed can mean different things to different people. To some a shed is a tatty wooden hut at the bottom of the neglected garden – full of spiders and a long time home for a rusting petrol lawn mower that you borrowed from someone years ago, but you can’t quite remember who. To others a shed is a place of order in an other wise disorganised life - clean and tidy, with racks of gleaming tools hung by size, by function and by letter. To most a shed a functional, a bulding with a purpose, to hold items securely, perhaps they have a hobby which they are passionate about and need to keep expensive sports equipment dry and safe.
The more we really get to know our customers the more we have come to realise that sheds can be so much more to so many people. To many a shed is the ultimate escape, a retreat from the hustle and bustle of modern life, a place to ponder and take stock of life. Much more than a home than a piece of garden furniture.
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Many younger shed owners (shedlings**) see sheds as nostalgic and sentimental – A shed will often bring back fond childhood memories of Granddads weather beaten face, tirelessly wittling away at a piece of wood he is using in his next over ambitious DIY project, puffing away on that old clay pipe with that oh so familiar smell. You can remember that old shed from your childhood in vivid detail, each chip in the floor, each scratch on the door all of them spark a memory. The small crack in the back window where you hit the side with your football shortly after your 8th birthday – but never admitted to.
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“Perhaps it’s just the need to reattach oneself to some kind of certainty. Sheds seem to be a part of a collective memory and a trigger for finding a personal history that allows people to make sense of the past and deal with the future. There are many thousands of those little personal museums out there. “ Mark Thompson – Author
Now you are older, the shed is yours. Your shed is now a place where you can be yourself. No pretence, no shirt, no tie, no order and certainly no best behaviour. It’s your shed your rules now. You can swear, knock your tea over, clean your bike – on the table .. with no newspaper put down to keep it clean. Now it’s your shed it is packed to the rafters with you. Each dent in the wall, each chip in the floor tells a different story, your story.
As you grow older you can appreciate why Granddad spent so long in his little wooden oasis. You now pick up the more subtle appeal to the senses, too. To run the hands along freshly sanded timber, stripped back to reveal hidden form and beauty. And then the varnish to give brilliant depth. Such beauty can be deeply and wordlessly appreciated. There is no need for words.
Mark Thompson recently described sheds as “like a good piece of blues – soulful and dark, speaking about pain and loss, the contemplation of the failure of life’s expectations, failure generally”
Speak to most men about there shed and isolation is the reoccurring theme. Often the hobby which they are supposed to be doing in their shed isn’t actually getting much attention. More often than not the dolls house you remember your grandfather making never actually got finished – in fact it is still in the attic space, half built some 20 years on….
“The real purpose of the shed is space, not space for working but a space for the worker”.
Isolation is a recurring theme in sheds. This, too, is paradoxical. There are benefits from such isolation; contemplation and meditation in a calm place away from the hurly-burly of the world. A surprising number of men talk about sheds using words and images that show a strongly spiritual and religious aspect of shed ownership.
On the other hand sheds can be shells that men hide in, away from others, when they could benefit from contact with people.
Wikipedia definition of a shed.
A shed is typically a simple, single-story structure in a back garden or on an allotment that is used for storage, hobbies, or as a workshop.
Sheds vary considerably in the complexity of their construction and their size, from small open-sided tin-roofed structures to large wood-framed sheds with shingled roofs, windows, and electrical outlets. Sheds used on farms or in industry can be large structures.
Wish I had a shed
Mark Thompson leading Australian author.
“The real purpose of the shed is space, not space for working but a space for the worker”.
“And it was in their sheds that they often found the strength to get through life”.
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