Ideas for Steel Buildings

Prefab and custom-designed steel buildings are an easy way to add inexpensive additional living space to your home. Most people think of these steel buildings – especially Quonset building arched steel buildings – as storage sheds and garages, but they can be used in so many other ways. Easy to erect steel building kits are ideal DIY projects for the home handyman, and can be the perfect solution to many small building projects often tackled by moms, dads and other homeowners. Consider how a steel building might be the perfect choice for one of these common home building projects.

Steel storage sheds are fairly easy to set up with basic DIY skills and tools. You can build one over a poured cement floor or over an installed wooden floor, depending on your preference. In most cases, you won’t need any kind of permit and won’t have to dig a foundation. If you can build a deck, you can put up a prefab steel shed. They’re available in a wide range of colors and trim styles, so you can easily find a steel building that fits right into your property style.

Playhouse

Give your little boy or girl the perfect spot to play – his own playhouse. Steel buildings are the perfect framework for anything from a cowboy’s bunkhouse to a fairy castle. All it takes is some serious decorative skill to turn a barebones steel building into a one-of-a-kind palace where memories are made. For a little girl’s playhouse, install window boxes filled with blooming annual flowers. Furnish it with a table and chairs and a play kitchen set and finish it off with lace curtains in the window. Turn a small metal building into a cowboy bunkhouse or sheriff’s office with wooden shutters and a big star or horseshoe on the door. Outfit the inside with bunks, a picnic-style table and benches and, if you’re so inclined, a “jail cell” built from a repurposed baby gate or two.

Pool Storage

Don’t haul your pool equipment all the way out from the garage or basement whenever you need it. Build a steel storage shed close to the backyard pool and cut down on all those extra steps – while freeing up space in your garage or basement for other things. Choose a building large enough to hold your pool chemicals, skimmer, pool vacuum and pool toys, as well as the cushions for your lawn and deck furniture. If you make it big enough, it can serve as winter storage for your deck furniture, grill and other summertime apparatus.

Steel buildings are ideal for many uses. Small steel buildings are especially easy to adapt in ways that enhance your family’s fun year-round.