I put the scrap plywood on the “floor” of the loft in the back part of the shed, and it gave me some overhead storage. I tripled the lower chord, and made a small 4×4 header that spanned from the first truss to the fifth truss, and then used the remaining trusses as laid out in the plans.
The next three trusses I removed the lower chord and the kingpost. I kept the first truss over the door into the shed intact. Nonetheless, it seemed like wasted storage space overhead. However, the shed is huge – don’t discount the fact that this shed’s main space is nearly 8′ tall NOT including the loft. The truss design featuring the kingpost essentially took away all of the overhead storage. Secondly, due to some of the comments, I decided to try and make the loft area under the roof more accessible for secondary storage. First, it had to be under 140 ft2 for permit reasons, so I made it 12×11.5ft. I built the shed as it is laid out in the plans above, except for two minor changes. I put the shed on a network of deck blocks to make the inspection process easier. I shipped these drawings to my building inspector for my plans, I sent away the shopping list to my lumber supplier to package up and deliver the materials, and then started construction when everything was in order. I built this shed using these plans over the past week.