Why Buy a Garden Shed?
Many of our garden sheds for sale offer good storage for tools and outdoor furniture, a nice space for DIY projects, and even the potential for a home office or workout area, depending on which size you go for.
Apart from storage, a garden shed will help you get organised by reducing clutter in garages and homes. You can use them to store seasonal decorations, sports equipment, or garden furniture during the winter months.
With our famously unpredictable weather, a garden shed in the UK should be ready to face the harshest of winters – and that’s something we insist on when curating our range.
If you enjoy a spot of gardening, garden sheds can be used as potting stations, complete with shelving for soil, pots, and seeds. It keeps everything in one place, so your gardening stays fun but more efficient. Some people even convert their sheds into dedicated hobby spaces, from woodworking workshops to art studios.
Types of Garden Sheds
Choosing the right shed isn’t complicated – we made the process nice and simple. With our expert advice learned through decades in the business, we can guide you towards the perfect garden shed for your home.
Choosing your new shed mostly comes down to three things: materials, function, and style, starting with the type of material you prefer:
Wooden Sheds
Timeless and charming, our wooden garden sheds for sale bring a healthy touch of natural warmth to your outdoor space. Add custom shelving, insulation, or a splash of colour to make them unique.
While they do need occasional treatment against British weather, you will be rewarded with a garden shed that is full of character and improves with age.
Metal Sheds
Security-focused and fuss-free, metal garden sheds laugh in the face of pests, resist fire, and stand firm against UK weather. No regular painting is needed with a metal garden shed – just occasional cleaning keeps them nice and sharp. The clean lines complement modern gardens, too.
Prefabricated Sheds
Perfect for gardeners who value time, our range of prefab garden sheds offers quick assembly without scrimping on quality. Many feature eco-friendly materials and rather clever modular designs that grow with your needs in time. This is the practical choice when you want convenience without compromise.
Concrete Sheds
Simply unbeatable for strength, concrete garden sheds are ideal for the seriously security-minded. These solid garden sheds shrug off storms and barely notice the winter seasons.
What they may lack slightly in traditional charm, they do compensate with an impressive lifespan and almost zero maintenance requirements.
Corner Sheds
Another popular type of garden shed in the UK, you will transform awkward garden corners into practical storage with these specially designed options.
They nestle perfectly into 90-degree spots, giving you surprising capacity while maximising every inch of your garden. Perfect for smaller spaces where standard sheds wouldn’t fit.
Potting Sheds
A gardener’s dream space, potting sheds combine healthy storage with bright workspaces for nurturing your plants.
The generous windows provide plenty of natural light, while built-in shelving keeps everything neatly organised. Able to transform gardening from a chore into a pleasure, whatever the weather is throwing at you.
Workshops
For hobbies or home businesses needing more than just storage, workshop garden sheds provide room to create at your leisure, in pure comfort.
Fit them with workbenches, extensive storage, and insulation for year-round use. Ideal for crafting, restoring, or running small businesses.
Garden Rooms
More sophisticated than standard garden sheds, these insulated spaces with electrical connections and beautiful windows create year-round usable environments. Perfect for home offices or peaceful retreats, garden rooms add living space without the disruption of home renovations.
Popular Garden Shed Sizes & Dimensions
Finding the right garden shed size matters – too small and you might outgrow it, too large and it might dominate your space. We have options ranging from compact tool stores to workshop-sized buildings to suit any garden.
Small Garden Sheds
Perfect for modest gardens or when you just need somewhere for the basics, sizes like 4×3 ft, 5×4 ft, and 6×4 ft give you just enough room for tools, seed trays, and those Christmas decorations that clutter up the loft each year.
Medium Garden Sheds
The sweet spot of garden sheds in the UK. Our 8×6 ft, 10×6 ft, and 10×8 ft sheds give you breathing room for the lawnmower and kids’ bikes, with enough room left over for a small potting bench, all without taking over your outdoor space.
Large Garden Sheds
This is where storage turns to lifestyle, and these spacious options deliver. Measurements like 12×10 ft, 14×10 ft, and 16×12 ft allow proper room to move around, set up workbenches, or create that home office you’ve been dreaming about.
Our customers typically gravitate toward:
- 8×6 ft: The Goldilocks choice that’s ‘just right’ for general garden storage
- 10×8 ft: Roomy enough for serious gardeners with tools, equipment and bikes
- 12×10 ft: Where hobbyists find their happy place with space to work
- 16×10 ft and larger: For anyone turning garden sheds into genuine living and working spaces
Roof Styles
The roof of your garden shed defines both how it works and how it looks in your garden.
Apex Roof Garden Sheds
These classic triangular roofs (with their distinctive peak) give you extra height in the middle, which is perfect if you’re tall or need overhead storage. They shed rain and snow efficiently and bring that traditional look that is so popular with garden sheds in the UK.
Pent Roof Garden Sheds
With their single-sloping surface, pent roofs give garden sheds a cleaner, more modern appearance. Ideal for tucking against walls or fences, pent-roof sheds are perfect for smaller gardens.
Corner Roof Garden Sheds
Designed for those awkward garden corners, these clever roof designs help you make the most of otherwise wasted space. With a unique shape that fits neatly where two boundaries meet, they give you valuable storage without taking up too much prime garden space.
Cladding Styles
The outer skin of your garden shed is your first line of defence against our beautiful British weather! T&G Loglap gives your shed a lovely cabin-like feel with interlocking panels that keep water out, while T&G Shiplap garden sheds feature interlocking boards with channels that actively direct rain away from joints.
Furthermore, weatherboards bring countryside charm with horizontal overlapping boards that have protected buildings for centuries, while concrete garden sheds deliver maximum durability when security matters most – pretty much maintenance-free, standing tough decade after decade.
Metal cladding speaks for itself, providing modern security that resists fire, pests and weather without constant upkeep. Perfect for protecting valuable equipment in all conditions, possibly at the expense of charm, however.
Customisation Options
Why settle for an off-the-rack garden shed when you can have one that fits your life like a glove? Our clever customisation options turn simple storage into spaces that will make neighbours peek over your fence in admiration, including:
- Smart shelving systems
- Eye-catching paint finishes that complement your garden perfectly
- Strategic window and door placement
- Winter-ready insulation that transforms your garden shed into a year-round retreat
- Power options from simple solar lighting to full electrical setups
- Reinforced flooring for heavy equipment or workshop machinery
Why Choose 1st Choice Leisure Buildings?
Unlike many mass-produced garden sheds in the UK, we partner with specialised UK manufacturers to create our Diamond, Sapphire, and Platinum ranges, with each offering different levels of quality, features, and budget.
Our wooden and concrete garden sheds come with free professional installation (a service many competitors charge extra for), and we encourage you to visit our extensive display site where our knowledgeable team – some of whom are qualified joiners – can help you customise everything from size and style to window placement and paint finish.
We don’t hide behind impossible-to-honour “10-year warranties” with ridiculous small print. We are a generational family business known for honest quality, fair pricing, and garden sheds that are genuinely built to last!
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