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Wilmette Sanctuary Home – Potting Shed

A cedar-lined potting shed with cathedral ceilings, chandelier, sconces, sink and mobile work tables – instead of a garage is part of the sanctuary house grounds in Wilmette, Illinois. Amy Berka, SSDB Lead Architect. See the project description and stunning library of photos.

Enjoy the whole video series of this modern new construction home in Wilmette!

Video transcript:

Unlike the garages that we see on the opposite side of the alley, our garage doors aren’t our typical overhead doors. These are doors that swing out. We’ve also done, I think, a really amazing job of actually siding them. You can see the seams here, you can see we have hinges, but as you drive by, this just presents as a sided building and you kind of have no idea what goes on inside.

A couple things as we step inside. A couple unique things about this. As you can see, we have cedar all around and if you could smell through the camera, you would be amazed at how wonderful it smells in here. We’ve done a couple fun things in this potting shed, like installed a chandelier because, why not? We have wall sconces because, why not? We’ve installed a sink here with soapstone counters, plenty of storage. As you can see, it’s well used.

This is not some fake potting shed. As you can tell by nature’s bounty behind me, this is a place where the owner actually gardens, grows things. As you can see, it’s on wheels and so when they need to, they can wheel it over.

It has a stainless steel top, so it’s relatively lightweight. They can wheel it over and it can act as an island for when they’re working at the sink.