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Welcome to my homemade website.   I very much enjoy conventional and unconventional building systems designed to provide shelter for humans. I like to study the different possibilities that other people come up with or invent. I use this page to collect different websites featuring conventional and alternative building ideas — prefab and portable building designs are dominant here. And some of these designs here are not necessarily new or the latest but still serve as a reminder of a possible alternative. For the most part, everything i present here is hopefully available for purchase or use by the widest audience possible. I do not like to include items which are so localized that only a few people can access them. This is not an art gallery. Included are the most ugly and practical to the most elegant and beautiful. I hope you enjoy your visit here.

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PICTURES OF SHEDS AND NON-COMMERCIAL SHED & SHELTER WEBSITES
  • Click here to lend your support to: Shedworking and make a donation at www.pledgie.com ! Shedworking   This website is so good that i think i shall keep it at the top of the list permanently. I love small low cost building/living systems and this site fits the bill. Totally excellent and from England. Visit this website for some really quality material. And don't forget to donate some cash to this very well done website - Shedworking, so they can stay in business. Click the button on the right to donate through Paypal.
     
  • Tiny House Design Tiny House Design   Welcome to Tiny House Design. To follow my growing personal interest in tiny houses and living light, I decided to start a blog to capture the things I find. I suspect more and more people will catch onto this new/old way of thinking, see how much sense it makes and begin to adopt some if not all of the ideas. In a nutshell, tiny houses give you back freedom in the form of time, money, and peace of mind. Why? How? Simply because they cost less to own, clean, heat, cool, etc. The less money you spend on your home, the less you have to earn or the more you keep in the bank. The less time you spend cleaning and maintaining your house the more time you have to for the things you like to do - like reading and viewing Shed & Shelter.com.
     
  • Readersheds Readersheds   Here's another good shed site. This website is based in the United Kingdom. It is unique and has a different emphasis than the other shed sites listed here. Here you can list your shed for public view or sell a shed or buy a shed. Many options to choose from. Very practical website. Not beautiful, but practical.
     
  • Shed Style Shed Style   With emphasis on architecture, interiors, and ornamentation in the garden. But seems to have more gardening material than shed material included in it's pages. But very nicely done website - professional and lots of unique shed information. I think though that they have included more shed and small dwellings than when they first started this publication.
     
  • Simply Differently Simply Differently   This site deals with 3 basic designs concentrating on nomadic shelters: the tipi, dome & yurt. This is a good website that is why i place it up here at the top. But sometimes access to it seems to be off and on. Maybe they have server problems.

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  • Tiny House Blog Tiny House Blog   This appears to me to be an excellent blog. Much wonderful information on small dwellings and accessories to go with.

    "My name is Kent Griswold and I am developing this blog because of my love of small spaces. I have always dreamed of having a cabin and have done research over the years. Tiny houses have also become an interest to me in the last couple of years. The goal of the tiny house blog is to discover the different options available for a person looking to down size into a tiny house or cabin. I will be looking at different type of construction, from logs, to yurts to modern and the unusual. I will also do book reviews, look at alternate energy for heat and electricity. I want to encourage feedback and ideas to make this an informative blog. Stories of people who are living this dream. Pictures of tiny houses and cabins, etc. My goal is to publish weekly and more if possible. Thank you for sharing in this experience with me."
ALL KINDS OF BUILDING SYSTEMS
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  • Synthetic Covered Dome Domes using Synthetic Fabric or Canvas for Covering   This section specializes in online businesses that sell materials and kits for the retail consumer. Available are dome kits and accessories. Also included is access to sites which show you how to build your own dome structures or framework, like for example out of bamboo sticks, pvc plastic pipe, electrical metal tubing (EMT) & other material.
     
  • Starplate Top Side Metal Connector Systems for Building Sheds and Shelters   This section specializes in online businesses that sell metal frame member connector systems mostly used to attach standard lumber sizes (2X6, 2X4, 2X3, 2X2, 1X2 inch) together to make either dome like frames or conventional box type frame shapes. Using these connectors should theoretically make your building project go up faster and stronger.
     
  • Tri-Panel Dome Prefab & Owner Built Geodesic & Airform Dome Homes   This section specializes in online businesses that sell prefabricated geodesic dome kits or geodesic dome home systems, plus other owner/builder dome building information. I need to make a distinction here. In this page is grouped together geodesic domes (i.e. domes using triangle shapes as structural framework) and airform domes which use an inflated rubber bladder that is coated with some kind of stucco like material and allowed to dry to produce a shell to be finished with other material and procedures. Big difference. Two very different types of building process, but both called dome building. For right now i will keep them both together. But just wanted to let you know that there are two very different dome systems being shown here.
     
  • Cabin Tent Cabin & Wall Tents   This section specializes in online businesses that sell prefabricated cabin and wall tents. Some of these also include tipis or other native type dwellings. Also included are family camping tents, tents that are freestanding and large enough for 8 to 12 people, but usually cannot accommodate a wood burning stove.
     
  • Indian Tipi Tipis | Tepees | Teepees — Indian Style Tents   This section specializes in online businesses that sell prefabricated tipis and sometimes other tent systems. I try and list only tipi makers that make tipis suitable for year round living, tipis that a person could live in full time if they so desire. I try to stay away from "historical reproduction tents" made for historical re-enactors and collectors, unless they are also suitable for full time use.
     
  • Mongolian Yurt Yurts & Everything About Yurts   This section specializes in online businesses that sell prefabricated yurt systems. Lots of different designs and material used for finishing the walls, etc. Wall covering ranges from cotton canvas to fiberglass to wood. Some yurts made to be portable and some built as permanent structures.
     
  • Compact House Prefab Compact Home Design — Portable & Non-Portable   This section specializes in online businesses that sell prefabricated small and some not so small houses or cabins; some on wheels and some not. Sizes can range from 96 sq.ft.(8'X12') to 400 sq.ft. (20'X20'). Some may be a little bigger. Sheathing almost always made from either wood, steel or some form of plastic.
     
  • Log Cabin Log Cabins & Precut Logs   This section specializes in online businesses that sell prefabricated log cabins and precut & grooved logs. This is probably the best way to go for a modern person desiring a log cabin to live in.

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  • Home Office Backyard Home Offices, Studios & Retreats   This section specializes in online businesses that sell prefabricated home office, retreat, studio type buildings. Most of these type of structures are slightly different than a common shed in that the use of glass and a more finished interior with nice paneling is applied throughout. They resemble a stand alone office space you might find downtown at the mall.
     
  • Brown Low Riders Temporary Emergency Housing or Shelter   This section specializes in online websites that manufacture and sell shelter systems suitable for small and large scale emergency housing solutions. This includes structures built using some kind of fabric (like tents) to plastic, wood or metal use or a combination thereof. Concepts range from simple wooden structures to cardboard and canvas shelters for use by individuals or corporately.
     
  • Shipping Container Shipping Containers or Conex Boxes as Homes & Storage   This section specializes in online businesses that design structures using these containers or they sell seagoing shipping containers which are in great supply i understand. Some people call them "storage containers". This is a method which has experienced rapid worldwide growth because of the availability and low cost of these containers.
     
  • Green Building Green Building Materials and Systems   This section specializes in online websites that promote and sometimes sell natural building systems. This section should include strawbuilding, adobe brick building, cordwood, rammed earth, papercrete, stone, bamboo, timber frame, earthbag (sandbag), & cob. I am sorry. This section needs a lot more work. So there are presently only a few items included in this linked page. More will come later. —gary
     
  • Concrete Form Building With Insulating or Insulated Concrete Form (ICF)   This section specializes in online businesses that sell the building blocks used in this new type of building system. It consists of pouring concrete into interlocking styrofoam forms (the forms look to me similar to cinder blocks) and finishing the exterior with stucco or a polyurethane structural coating.
     
  • Cabin building plan Cabin, Home & Shed Plans for Sell and Do-It-Yourself Guides   This section specializes in online businesses that sell shed and cabin building plans with emphasis on small to medium size units. Included are plans for dome building or any other irregular shaped building. Also included are do-it-yourself websites that offer free advice or instructions on building a particular type of building like a shed, home office or cabin, etc.
     
  • Unconventional Building Systems Unconventional Buildings and Methods   This section specializes in online websites that are quite different in building methods, but quite useful. Some examples would be building with discarded automobile tires and used wood pallets, airform construction, animal shelters, building with sandbags and earth, using canvas tarps, to name a few.

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  • Steel Frame Building Steel Frame Building & Systems for Housing   This section features online businesses that specialize in using steel for the greatest percentage of their building framework and exterior sheathing and general information about building with steel. Included would be quonset hut type structures, an old and very strong design.
     
  • Metal Shed Prefab Metal Sheds   This section specializes in online businesses that sell prefabricated freestanding metal sheds or kits. Arrow Sheds is one of the most common and famous purveyors of metal sheds.

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  • Poly Shed Prefab Plastic Sheds   This section specializes in online businesses that sell prefabricated freestanding polyethylene or resin sheds. Also included are Vinyl Sheds or storage buildings. Vinyl is different than Polyethylene. Vinyl is actually PVC (polyvinylchloride) same plastic used in making the very common pvc water pipe.

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  • Wood Shed Prefab Wood Sheds   This section specializes in online businesses that sell prefabricated freestanding wood or wood product sheds & kits. Wood siding might be made of Cedar siding, T1-11 siding or sanded plywood.

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  • Incinolet Toilet Toilet Systems   This section specializes in online businesses that sell alternative toilets; some require electricity to operate and some use natural fermentation. Links to systems include: Sunfrost Human Humus Machine, Eco-john, Qwikjon, Envirolet Composting Toilets, Incinolet, BioLet composting toilets, Sun-Mar composting toilets. Also included is some information on do-it-yourself toilet ideas.

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  • G-Wood House Irregular Shaped Shelter Systems & Design   This section specializes in online businesses or websites that use different shapes for construction. Included are individuals who have invented unique design structures which can be copied by anyone for their own personal use.

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  • California Custom Sheds
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  • Insulated Foam Panels Building With Insulated Foam Panels   This section specializes in online businesses that sell wood panel (OSB) sandwiches with polystyrene or some type of foam as the core called SIPs (Structural Insulated Panels).

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  • Cardboard dome Corrugated Cardboard or Recycled Cardboard Structures   This section specializes in online websites that show how to use cardboard for building structures from domes to rectangular boxes. Included are some of my own ideas about attachment methods.

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  • Grip Clip Resource Center   This section specializes in online businesses or websites that provide a service or product useful for the alternative builder.

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  • Living Aboard Magazine Alternative Living/Building Projects & Lifestyles   This section specializes in online businesses or websites that promote a different view of life and habitation. Included are tree house living information sites, sailboat live aboard, school bus conversion, houseboat living.

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Earth Bag Dome
Earth Bag Dome
Earth Bag Building has picked up steam and people are creating
some very beautiful structures using this method. Click on the above
link to visit a great new site specializing in this low cost way of building.


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