I won't be able to discuss shed blueprints without first explaining how we found them. This article is actually about how to add more room. Although there is a lot of space in our home, it isn't laid out very well. We have basically two living rooms, which seems silly because one of those living rooms can be turned into two bedrooms.

The first option we considered was closing in one of those living rooms, and turning it into another room. There's problems with this approach though. For one thing, we'd have to sacrifice a nice entertainment area. But the other thing is that no matter how we sliced it, there was no way to make it really look good. Although this was doable, and not terribly expensive, it didn't really excite us.

Building onto the house was one of the other options we were looking at that had the downside of being a bit expensive. It'd require an extension to the roof, which isn't a big deal, but that part of the house would have sightly newer shingles than the rest of the house which would be just weird. There was a penalty to all that extra space though: We'd have to heat it, cool it, clean it, and keep it well maintained. On a positive note, it would give us options with regards to new features we might want like a more spacious bathroom, or closet area. We realized though that it might be too much of a disruption. To do that, would require we remove some walls, which would mean that our bedroom wouldn't be very private for a period of time. We decided that we'd do that last resort.

So we didn't really like any of the options until we started discussing the matter with some friends of ours. Now we didn't actually talk about our situation because they were showing us some stuff they were working on. From what I remember it was a case of needing more space for more stuff like gardening equipment etc. Now I couldn't help it. I started daydreaming, not because it was boring, but because all this was starting to give me some ideas. That's when I realized what we needed to do. What we needed was a cottage! It would be a great way to add room without actually adding on to the home, or modifying the home itself. I started asking this gentleman more questions, and the more I asked, the more excited I got. The most caveat though, according to the husband is that shed blueprints are a must, and he showed me where to find them (some for free). Now even though I was looking for cottage plans, this place apparently had those too.