If you are heading into or in retirement, consider the future, what will make your property more valuable when it comes time to sell or pass on to the next generation. Something that allows a motor home or bigger boat to fit in might make your property $20,000 more valuable than a tractor shed that is too low, or too short.
If you are younger, consider what your future is, are you going to be doing some bit of farming where you are, farm equipment tends to get taller and wider as you shop for good deals, you can't make a door too big..... Will you and your kid use it, want to work on tractor and cars, a little bigger is sure nice, but especially make it high enough. Allow for some growth.
But, if a person spends too much on the building, can't afford to put anything in it! Argh.....
So....
Make it tall enough. You gotta have a 10 foot door or why bother. 12 foot would be better. Overhead tube heater, overhead lights, a fan up there, working on the top of a tractor cab or implement you sure like the head room to work. (And the next owners motor home will fit, making your property more valuable....)
Make the door wide enough. I would rather have one wider door than 2 narrow doors. Funny how a person wants to drive in with a mower on, a baler on, duals even on the little tractors, etc.
Yes, a big door lets in more cold air when you open it, but I've never seen a door 'too big' for a building.......
It sucks to heat a big building and use it for just storage. So your smaller actual shop size works, but:
Allow room to build a cold storage building down the road. Or a lean to as some have pictured if you built a nice 14 foot building with 12 foot high doors, or add on to the end to make a longer building. Just, allow room for expanding, somehow.
Again, it's easy to spend your money and say bigger bigger bigger..... If it's just you working and having fun thrn the size you mention works fine. Save a little money for a second, cold storage building, lean to maybe, someday. But make it tall enough and the door big enough to be a useful building! Those two items are hard to change after you build.
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