Here are the most popular shed styles organized for the most part by roof style

Gable Shed – Also known as: A-Frame – Even Pitch – Cape – Cottage

It stands to reason that one of the most popular shed styles is the “gable Shed” due to it’s traditional, even pitch roof.This roof style mimics the roof style of many homes.

Highwall Barn – Dutch Barn, Gambrel, Colonial

The “barn” style has a traditional country look. Adding a loft or half loft to a barn provides you additional storage area giving you more bang for your buck. Staying with the traditional barn look many customers select red for their base color and opt for cross buck door trim (X’s on the doors).

Carriage House – Quaker, pool house, pool side

This popular New England style has an overhang on the front of the building for added protection. Traditionally, a carriage house had a lower rear wall. Today, due to the need for additional storage space the rear wall is only nominally shorter than the front wall if not the same height.

Kicked Eve – Nantucket

A “kicked eve” roof style is less common when it comes to sheds. Like the carriage house style the kicked eve roof has an overhang. The term “kicked” refers to the lower portion where the roof line “kicks” out creating a different pitch for the lower portion of the roof.

Dormer – Dormered Gable, Victorian Dormer

Dormers are added to the roof in order to accommodate a vertical window (in most cases). There are a several types of dormers which can be added to a shed. Two of the most popular are Victorian dormers and dog house dormers.

The Victorian dormer in terms of sheds, extends up the front wall to a peak which is the same height as the peak of the shed. It then goes front to back meeting the sheds roof peak. This creates two valleys, one on either side of the dormer.

This style shed roof is more common in recent years due to this style dormer being used in many new homes. In some cases a porch is added giving the shed more of a Victorian look.

The majority of the customers I speak with each day are interested in matching the color scheme of their home. Of course this is completely logical. I mean it only makes sense to match the color scheme of your house so your shed doesn’t stand out like a sore thumb. On the other hand there are a handful of customers who go completely nuts with their color scheme. Believe me when I tell you that I have seen some of the most bizarre color combination’s imaginable! Of course I’m not the one who has to look at their shed every day.

So I was playing around with some storage shed color schemes today. I need 50-70 sheds for the Big E, a 17 day long fair in Massachusetts which starts next month and some more for our stores. Here are a few of the color schemes I came up with.

This is a popular color scheme. A bit bland but the clay paint color allows the shed to blend in when abutting trees etc.

Saw a storage shed with this color scheme leave the lot today. I like the blue/gray contrast. The clay door looked out of place to me at first but after looking at the shed for a couple of minutes it grew on me. The navajo white trim gives the the color scheme a little more “pop”.

Another customer favorite! Just had a couple of sheds with these colors arrive in inventory and customers comment on how much they like the colors. Of course many who like the colors end up just going with their house colors when they place their order but overall I would say this is in the top 5 most popular color schemes this year.

Although these were/are popular colors I began thinking about going out on a limb and mixing things up a bit. Who knows maybe I’ll hit on some other colors that people will absolutely love! So I played with some colors today and here is what I came up with and why.

Ok so these colors aren’t totally crazy. Blue is popular and the white really jumps off the shed. The blue roof may be a bit much but I happened to be reading about the L.A. Dodgers when I put these colors together. I’m on the east coast but who knows maybe there are some Dodgers fans looking for a shed (or any other sports fan whose favorite team is blue and white.

Back to the blue roof again. Have baseball on my so this is my attempt at drawing in some Cubs fans or patriots fans for that matter although the blue is a little light for the Patriots.

Red Sox shed? Maybe? Cut me some slack I only have so many colors to work with.

Staying along the red white and blue them how about an Independence Day shed? Think these will be a big seller?

For those who REALLY get into decorating for Christmas. The Christmas shed makes a GREAT gift!

Back to the sports theme. If you can't guess this is my Boston Celtics shed. Being that I am in Massachusetts this color scheme is a sure thing!

What John Deere tractor owner would't want a shed that matches their tractor! When watching sportscenter Im pretty sure there was an ad that prompted me to select these colors.

I think the next batch will include some purple and pink. Oh and definitely black! Some tie dyes for the dead heads out there might be a good idea.