Shed of the year 2009 : The Finalists announced

The winner has been announced and its the Kite Cabin………

You voted in your thousands and me and the sheddies thank you.

Well here are the sheds that made it to the final list, now its up to our judges to vote on their favorites and they winner will be announced during shed week 2009! (Wed 8th July 2009 to be exact)

Normal Shed Category Winner
THE APPLE CRATE Carol and Paul,The bottom of our garden

Eco-shed Category Winner
Rammed Earth Eco-Shed Michael Thompson,Potter Heigham, Norfolk

Garden office Category Winner
Grumpy’s Palace Debs Carr,Jersey, Garden Office

Cabin Category Winner
Kite Cabin Steven Harwood,Top of the Garden

Workshop Category Winner
Workshopshed Andy,London

Unique Category Winner
The Disco Shed Peepshow Paddy,Secret Oxfordshire Hideaway

Summerhouse Category Winner
Love Shack Martin Newman,Rear Garden L/pool

Pub Shed Category Winner
Cowshed Bar & Spa Andy Butler,West Wales

Studio Category Winner
Dingly Dell Amanda Goode (Princess Tat of Tinkle Shed)

Tardis Category Winner
Tardis Paul Williams

Hut Category Winner
Hut 6 Bletchley Park Trust,Bletchley Park

Wooden Category Winner
My shed in Kenilworth Judith Medlock

Other Category Winner
West Ham Unit’sh’ed Chris Le Poidevin,On the Patio !

Congrats sheddies, if you have not emailed me your details, then please do so ASAP

Here are the other sheds in each category that came close in the public vote, sorry I can’t give actual votes as it was a secret ballot by you the sheddies.

Normal Shed – they maybe normal but your loved them

• THE APPLE CRATE Carol and Paul,The bottom of our garden – Kent
• shedalistic twizzle,bournemouth, dorset
• Witts End Lorraine Gallagher,Back Garden Wiltshire UK
• Garden Hutch Nick Nardi,Portland, OR, USA,

Eco-sheds This new category will go on from strength to strengh

• Rammed Earth Eco-Shed Michael Thompson,Potter Heigham, Norfolk
• Georgeously Gothic Jason Butler,Chester, United Kingdom
• Eco-Shed James Glave,Bowen Island, British Columbia, Canada
• housetree Rog,bottom of garden

Garden office – Worthy of any shedworker

• Grumpy’s Palace Debs Carr,Jersey
• The GrumbleShack Marcus Tyler-Moore,Garden
• Kathy’s Kabin Kathy Dale,Garden, Aberdeenshire
• The Home Office Andrew Barnwell & Sarah Parker,Conwy, North Wales

Cabin – great craftsmanship this year.

• Kite Cabin Steven Harwood,Top of the Garden, West Wales
• Potting shed Paula ,Garden
• The Shed John Hutchinson,Abergele, North Wales

Workshop – a strong category for the serious sheddie

• Workshopshed Andy,London
• Fred’s Shed Fred Spaven,Yorkshire,
• Mazzy’s Mosaic Marianne Andrews,Cholsey, Nr Wallingford, Oxford
• The SHED Chuck Witmer,Silver Spring, MD USA
• Clivey’s Shed Clive Batkin

Unique Some great ones this year – I thought Tony had the wossname on uniqueness. but you proved me wrong.

• The Disco Shed Peepshow Paddy,Secret Oxfordshire Hideaway
• The Lady Sarah Out of Worthing Reg Miller,Southend-on-Sea, Essex
• open plan daz’s dad :),england
• Hobbit Hole R Estelle,Kenai, Alaska

Summerhouse Cute and practical

• Love Shack Martin Newman,Rear Garden L/pool
• The Pip Laura ,Northland, New Zealand
• polein2fitness Wendy Litchfield,back garden of my home in Cheshire
• Clarkson Mk1 chris crowley,Ickenham, Middlesex

Pub Shed The most closely fought category this year

• Cowshed Bar & Spa Andy Butler,West Wales, Pub Shed
• The Forge and Flagon Mandy and Smudge Smith,In our secret location
• The George & The Dragon George Blackwell,Maidenhead
• DELS DEN MARTIN DELANEY,BOTTOM OF GARDEN
• The Rum Shack Simon Tarabella,Garden, Gosport

Studio – Great studios this year

• Dingly Dell Amanda Goode (Princess Tat of Tinkle Shed),Shropshire
• Dave’s Shed David Spy,Dave & Wendy’s garden
• my lil house Craig Godfrey ,london
• Attilla the Hut PETER BAGGOTT,BOTTOM OF THE GARDEN

Tardis

• Tardis Paul Williams,Newport, South Wales
• Roger & Alison’s Shed Roger Williams,Hereford
• Mission Hut Martin Ellis,Isle of Man

Hut – where were all the beach huts!
Hut 6 Bletchley Park Trust,Bletchley Park

Wooden

• My shed in Kenilworth Judith Medlock,United Kingdom
• Brinjal House Lila Das Gupta,Not far from the River Thames

Other – a bit too different for a lot of sheddies.

• West Ham Unit’sh’ed Chris Le Poidevin,On the Patio !
• The Bygones Museum Darren Stride,GT Yarmouth, Norfolk
• The chapel miss julie king,United Kingdom
• russ’s shed russ abbott,my allotment

To the rest of you did a great job and I hope we get the same effort for the new sheds added for next years comp, but remember each shed on the site (that has not won) goes forward to next years comp automatically, so get some new pictures ready!

One thing that happened this year was a lot of promotion by the sheddies of their sheds canvassing votes via facebook, twitter and their own blogs… plus on forums as different as football fans sites, welders and bikers.

For next year also I may cull a few categorys that did not many votes – and maybe change the rules so that it takes the top ten overall instead of categorys but we can look at that after my shedweek hangover!