This might fall under building but that wasn't an option of what forum to put it under so I put it here. We built this back porch shed in the fall of 2021 both to have a place to house our rabbits and to have our chest freezers. It has also been a great place to start chicks because I really hate having them in the house. We used up about three quarters of the back porch for this shed and my husband came up with the blueprints after a lot of measuring. My son, my friend and I built it and my son put the roof on it. I really wanted to use 2x6's for the roof trusses but it wouldn't have worked that well and still have been able to be butted up underneath the house roof so we used 2x4's every 16 inches instead of 24 and a little over halfway down put up a support which doubles as frames for the rabbit cages and manure trays. There are also 2 inches by 1/2 crossmembers that go over the 2x4s for more support for the metal corigated roof. There is also storage underneath the rabbit cages.
It has held up to over a foot of snow on the roof with no cracking or bending and can witstand being walked on when my grandson goes up to shovel it.
Anyway that's just one project we completed. We also built our own chicken coop years ago but I'd have to go back and find photos for that.
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