Today’s unusual requests are tomorrow’s shed trends—just ask the first person to move their home office to the backyard. However, for shed builders who specialize in custom construction, some requests are a bit too niche to hit the mainstream just yet. Kent Lapp, CEO and principal of Wood-Tex Products, has[Read More…]
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A&L Paint Distributor Set Up in Missouri
A&L Paint, a supplier of stain and paint for shed builders in Pennsylvania, is expanding its reach west of the Mississippi with the opening of a distributorship in Hartville, Missouri. “In the winter, sometimes it gets hard to ship out of Pennsylvania because of the cold weather,” said Amos Yoder,[Read More…]
Roseburg Corporate Headquarters to Relocate in 2016
Roseburg Forest Products will be relocating its corporate headquarters to Springfield, Oregon, in September 2016, announced Allyn Ford, president and CEO. The company’s headquarters are currently located in Roseburg, Oregon. Ford explained that several months ago, Roseburg purchased an office building in Springfield and that the Executive Team then spent[Read More…]
The Back Door: The Shed Shop
Tim Kight and Chad Noaeill from The Shed Shop, which serves Minnesota and Wisconsin, built this double-door, backyard shed. It’s an 8 by 12 structure with a 6-inch overhang. The double doors are 5 feet wide, and the window measures 22 by 30 inches. Other features include a window box,[Read More…]
New Look for LPCorp.com
LP Building Products has redesigned its company website, LPCorp.com, including the addition of a sustainability news section and an industry blog, as well as an enhanced literature finder tool. “With our new site, we wanted our customers to be able to find the information they need in as few steps[Read More…]
Shed and Other Organization Products Growing in Sales
Sales of home organization products in the United States were on a tear until the recession and housing crash ground growth to a halt. In fact sales declined in 2008 and 2009 before beginning a recovery that continued through 2014. In the report Home Organization in the U.S.: General Purpose,[Read More…]
Shed Builder Gets Ideas on… Pinterest
Historic Shed in Brooksville, Florida, has hit upon a unique way to get ideas for sheds, garages, and more – —Pinterest. “Being the visually oriented people that we are here at Historic Shed, we love the idea-saving website Pinterest,” the company said in a statement. “We use it to collect ideas[Read More…]
The Back Door: Vermont Custom Sheds
If they worked with Vermont Custom Sheds, they could see the shed above built by Mike Lucie. It’s a 12 -by-20 shed with knotty pine shiplap siding and a 45-degree roof pitch. The windows are single sash wood along with the transom window above the double doors. The overhang/soffit detail is[Read More…]
Interlocking Structures Debuts in Dallas
Affordable Portable Structures, based in Texas, unveiled its new EZ Log Cabin at Dallas Build Expo in early February. What makes the structure unique is that it is a Malaga A interlocking, stacked-wall log cabin. The 108-square-foot cabin is constructed from select-grade, computer- milled spruce from the Baltics, featuring 12.5[Read More…]
2015 Keystone Wholesale Show a Success
Buyers and manufacturers agreed that the 2015 Keystone Wholesale Show, February 25 and 26 in York, Pennsylvania, was one of the most successful shows in Keystone’s decade-plus history. Show coordinator, Wanda Gregg said, “We owe a lot to our sponsors who have partnered with us to make this a must-attend[Read More…]
