Prefab Laneway House:
Prefab Vancouver Laneway House
Designed as a place for visitors to rest their travel-weary bones this Guesthouse concept could easily be adapted as a Laneway House for the Vancouver marketplace.
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Backyard Office & Storage By Modern-Shed
A Backyard Office Close to Home.
Mixed Use: 7′ x 22′ Backyard Office / Storage
SEATTLE — Chris Hansot was used to paying $400 a month for an office in Queen Anne he barely used. It got him thinking about a Backyard Office.
The software salesman travels regularly for work around the Northwest and Canada, but when he needs to get projects finished, he needs the privacy and space to do so.
Chris found himself working more and more from home, in order to be close to his wife and four kids — a 6-year-old boy, two twin 8-year-old girls, and a 10-year-old boy.
He has another office in Bellevue, but he hates going there, he said.
After four years paying monthly rent on the Queen Anne office near his home, he finally made the decision to build something even closer to home, a backyard office.
“I thought, ‘Why am I paying money for this?’” he said. “I need a place to go and have my own space.”
Chris looked into building a garage with a home office attached, but he was surprised at how costly a home addition could be.
Modern-Shed Prefab Dwelling Compound
Prefab Dwelling Shed Compound: Don’t live LIFE confined to four walls!
Located in the quaint town of Port Townsend on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula the Dwelling Shed Compound was designed by Modern-Shed founder Ryan Grey Smith.
The Prefab Dwelling Shed Compound was built as a recreational family getaway. It also serves as a showcase for Modern-Shed products, designs and concepts.
Connected with raised inter-connected decks the compound is designed around a central courtyard complete with fire pit and benches. A mix of gravels paths, bamboo, concrete stepping-stones, composite wood and cedar decking offer many different textures to the look and feel.
Cabin Kit: 10′ x 12′ Forest Getaway
Modern-Shed Cabin Kit:
Nustled in the forest of the Pacific Northwest this beautiful 10 x 12′ Cabin Kit makes the perfect weekend getaway Complete with a raised foundation and porch and backed by beautiful organic garden beds. Read more ›
Modern-Shed: Backyard Office – A Private Getaway
Modern-Shed: A space to frame the day:
Modern-Shed: As a talent agent working outside of Seattle, Jamie Lopez understands what it means to be busy.
“My life is telephone and email,” said Lopez, who lives on Vashon Island with his wife and two young children.
“ I’ve run my own business for a long time out of my house. Once kids entered the picture, things got hairy.”
For the past five years, Lopez has worked from home, balancing his time at his home office with the needs of his children. Read more ›
Studio Shed: Creating the getaway of her dreams!
Studio Shed: A stylized 10′ x 20′ Modern-Shed
Studio Shed: After retiring from a world of crunching numbers for more than 30 years, Virginia Violin decided to devote more of her life to color.
Ever the artist, Virginia has always occupied her hands with some craft — sculpting, knitting, needlepoint and weaving have all been passions of hers at one point or another.
But it wasn’t until she retired from a career in accounting (she’s worked in the oil and telecom industries, and most recently was an accountant for the literary nonprofit Seattle Arts & Lectures) that she decided to get serious about her art.
The only problem was, she didn’t really have the space in her Vashon Island home to get that serious. Read more ›