Nothing you ever do will stop the metal shed from looking like the spare bedroom for trailer trash, or one gigantic garbage can in your yard. One way or another, go for the wooden shed. It's frankly not all that hard to build one from scratch out of salvaged boards. There's often a place at big industrial plants that sell or even give away for free salvage material like the big wooden boxes machinery is shipped in. With such wood you could build a shed for next to free (even downloading free shed plans off the net) then invest in nothing but the price of cedar shingles to turn it from a patchwork of recycled wood into something that looks like a cedar cabin.
But if you want it ready made, shop around. Some of them are amazingly inexpensive, especially the kits you put together yourself. You'll never find the best OR the cheapest at Home Depot or Lowes. What a shed is made of also affects price. Red cedar has gotten expensive, but white cedar, pine, or spruce can be a lot cheaper, just needing a good preservative oiling as preservative and bring out the colors and patterns in the wood nicely, or painting it like a miniature Victorian pink-lady.
When you got what you want, then plant climbing roses on THAT and it'll always look good. You can landscape around it and make it a feature of a garden, like a little cottage, instead of an unsightly horror you already wish vines could hide.
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there is a reason metal sheds are cheaper.
you need to think this through, and listen to your family. maybe you're the one who works hard, but buying a metal shed is not working smart. metal sheds rust. the doors jam because they warp. the roof will collapse from a minor snowload. they're too hot in the summer & too cold in the winter. buy or build a wooden shed. you, and your family will be much happier for much longer than if you go with a cheap metal shed that you will need to replace in 3 years (along with anything stored in it) i just bought a 10' x 12' shed, with 8x8 beams & a 3' overhang by the doors, constructed for me, for just over $2000. it would have been less if i bought it as a kit, but i needed it in a hurry for a sick animal shelter. yes, that's more than a metal shed, but it'll still be in use
25 years from now, when a metal shed (and 8 of it's sucessors) would be a pile of dust.
there's no way to make a metal shed "look pretty". they're ugly & get uglier rapidly.
until they have to pick out the ruins of everything stored there when it collapses & you have to listen to a corous of "we told you so!"
get a real shed, or build it yourself. in most places, if it doesn't have a foundation, it won't be taxed. even your metal shed will need a cement slab foundation. a wood shed can be a pole building, without a foundation. lee
Metal sheds become very hot on warm sunny days, the heat is radiated and anything you plant in close proximity will cook.
Metal sheds are not necessarilly cheaper than wood. Granted there are metal out buildings that are well made and will last for many years but they are also quite costly (ie. Morton Buildings and others of that type). But with the typical el cheapo hardware store metal shed you'd be lucky to get five years before it looks like an old rusted sardine can... they are so poorly made they can barely support themselves let alone shelving and tools, a few gusts of wind adn they buckle. Whereas a home made wooden shed is not very expensive and if some thought is given to choice of materials and construction it can easily last a lifetime. Providing the labor yourself there is no reason why you can't have one of those fancy schmancy $3,000 ready made wood jobs for under a grand and built twice as strong.
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