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Garden sheds don’t have to be basic, utilitarian structures. Besides housing gardening tools and supplies, these backyard buildings can create a charming focal point for your backyard and additional outdoor living space. Create an outdoor oasis you’ll want to retreat to all summer with these gorgeous garden shed ideas.

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Cottage-Style Garden Shed

MARTY BALDWIN

Garden sheds do more than provide outdoor storage. They can create a comfortable workspace, provide a backdrop for prized plants, or deliver a destination where you can relax and entertain friends. his cottagecore shed serves as a sweet focal point amidst a whimsical garden. Its sunny yellow siding complements surrounding shades of green.

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Salvaged Shed

JACOB FOX

Salvaged windows and barn-board siding lend vintage character to this garden shed. Thoughtful details, such as the window trim on the exterior and the cupola perched on the roof, transform what could be a basic storage shed into an inspiring garden-side retreat. For even more personality, don’t be afraid to use a bold color for your garden shed. Because sheds are smaller, a bright hue like red will simply pop, rather than overwhelm, as it might on a larger house or garage.

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Glass Garden Shed

LYNN KARLIN

This all-glass garden shed doubles as storage and a greenhouse area in colder months. A light and airy design like this works well in a yard where you really want the surrounding landscape to shine. Adding window boxes and gingerbread molding ensures the design leans homey, not austere.

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Farmhouse Garden Shed

LAURIE BLACK

This backyard shed’s design is a nod to the property’s farmhouse. But beyond its charming shake siding and robin’s egg blue door, the design is practical and savvy. Many of the materials used to build the shed were salvaged from a home renovation. The shed can also be moved if needed, as it’s set on concrete piers on gravel and sand instead of a permanent foundation.

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Shed Landscaping

ROBERT CARDILLO

With crisp white siding, Kelly green accents, and a low profile, this garden shed takes its cue from Cape Cod-style homes. It nestles up to its own complete garden, delineated with a picket fence. The landscaping, complete with flowering shrubs, brings substance and a focal point to the backyard.

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Salvaged Shed Materials

LAURIE BLACK

While many garden sheds look like miniature houses, this shed forges a different design path. Salvaged materials form the greenhouse’s structure and set a casual tone. The surrounding formal topiaries and hedges, inspired by English designs, juxtapose the shed’s eclectic aura.

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Rustic Garden Shed

BOB STEFKO

When considering your garden shed design, take your cues from its surroundings. Set among towering trees and winding stone paths, this shed features weathered wood and traditional cottage design elements, fitting in its forest setting. The steely blue-gray door and shutters suit the design, while a glazed finish gives the features added dimension. Board and batten siding offers distinction to the garden shed’s simple form.

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Modern Shed Design

LAURIE BLACK

This shed’s streamlined design nods to midcentury modern style. Bold white trim on the windows and doors emphasizes the garden shed’s contemporary angles. The overhanging roof creates the effect of a covered porch; metal flashing and a wood soffit bring a futuristic atmosphere to the design.

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Miniature House Shed

BOB STEFKO

This cottage potting garden shed borrows design inspiration from the main house, using the same earthy green and white paint colors. Extras like a deck, stone path, and cottage-style mixed planting borders make the backyard shed design feel more like a home than just a place for storage. Several garden shed decorating ideas, including lace curtains in the windows, a quaint bench, and outdoor art, add homey appeal. In a practical move, downspouts ensure rain doesn’t damage the plants that surround the building.

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Growing Shed

LAURIE BLACK

Clever garden shed ideas don’t have to be limited to the shed itself. This design proves a structure can be part of the garden itself with a roof of succulents. Mushroom gray siding recedes, letting the lime green sliding barn doors and sapphire blue roofline shine.

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Grand Garden Shed

ROBERT CARDILLO

If you have the space, go big with your backyard shed’s design. This large shed looks like a fun-sized grand home, thanks to its slanted copper roof, pillars, and welcoming porch with a handsome colonnade. A colorful bench and potted plants make the shed a true extension of the home.

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Charming Cottage Shed

LYNN KARLIN

This garden shed matches its exuberant cottage garden surroundings. Architectural details, such as the scalloped trim, clapboard siding, window boxes, lace curtains, and weather vane make it the perfect focal point for the garden. Terra-cotta-colored roof shingles and a gray-blue exterior fashion a just-right color palette.

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Cottage Garden Style

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