Brinnley Ellis sat on a shed roof surrounded by a cacophony of pounding hammers punctuated by the sharp sound of a nail gun.

Landscape architect Emily Archer fulfilled one of her inner “geek” dreams by installing a green roof on a new shed in her Virginia Beach backyard this summer. As an urban planner with the city of ...

Construct your shed on a solid foundation that’s a minimum of two inches off the ground. If any part of the floor is in ground contact, it will rot, provide easy access to rodents, and probably won’t ...