Sheds, decks and outdoor spaces built across Canterbury.

A pole shed on a hill block: round timber poles, timber bearers and rafters, steel bracing and profiled steel cladding, with the front bays left open for machinery.

Cedar weatherboard over a gabled steel roof, with aluminium double doors and window to the finished end and an open lean-to bay running off the side for covered storage.

Three roller-door bays in charcoal profiled steel, with a personnel door to the side and a shallow-pitch roof, set on a levelled pad against an existing shelterbelt.

From the shell through to a lined and carpeted interior, Phil builds sheds around how the space will be used. Multi-bay storage, workshops and hobby spaces can be sized and sited for the block, with doors, windows, lining and finishes planned as part of the job.

Two separate storage builds. A timber-framed carport with translucent roof and wall sheeting, alongside open firewood bays behind a slatted screen; and a cedar-clad garden store finished with black trims, spouting and downpipes.

Post-and-beam pergolas built over new decking and paving. One photograph shows posts set out and braced over a boxed and reinforced slab before the pour; the other, a finished cedar pergola with clear roof sheeting over a new deck.

A covered outdoor room built over a spa pool: timber posts and beams, exposed rafters with a lined ceiling and clear sheeting to one pitch, cedar balustrade infill and stained decking. Photographed over five weeks as it was lined and finished.

A dark oiled hardwood walkway and shallow ramp run from the path along the cottage wall to a raised deck, sheltered by a white powder-coated pergola.

Hardwood decks and steps built for real use, level, well drained and set out for a Kiwi barbecue. Handrails and screening are added where the site needs them.

A hardwood surround built around an existing pool and spa, with wide steps up to the water and a level platform for furniture.

Timber retaining walls that stabilise sloping sections, drain properly behind the face and sit right in the landscape. Terraced where the fall is too steep for a single wall.

A tidy weatherboard enclosure that hides the wheelie bins without looking like an afterthought. Built to match the house cladding and paint.

A freestanding pavilion with an outdoor fireplace, built to shelter a dining and barbecue area year round. Framed, clad and finished on site by Phil.

A standard garage turned into a lined, insulated bar and games room. Phil handled the build and coordinated the electrical and joinery trades.

A standalone room built alongside the house, clad to match and fitted with arched french doors. The kind of one-off job that has no standard plan to follow.

A relocated house set down on new foundations, then re-fitted inside with new stairs and balustrade, built-in wardrobes and joinery.

A new home taken through from foundations to handover, finished with a full-width timber deck across the living end. Consent, pricing and trades coordinated by Phil.

Structure and fit-out on three separate jobs: a steel portal frame with timber wall framing going up on a new slab; the interior of another building at lining stage, with a steel mezzanine over one end; and a timber garage frame set on a fresh slab into a hillside section.