Show us your shed....
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 3:23 am
Didn't want to drift another thread where it came up: "Having the house, the boat and the tools in one place...." So here goes. If you want, share your "cave", the workshop, the putter palace, the garage mahal, the tinker tent, the (wo)man building.....
I am very appreciative of the fact that I have achieved a lifelong dream, a real shop. OK, it took me four years to build it, but it has heat, cooling, hot and cold running water, bathroom, cable, satellite radio, internet, fridge and coffee maker, lift for automotive action and many tools. (Almost said: all the tools, but we know that that is impossible.)
I can be in there all day working on something, the boat in this case, in comfort, with commercial free music, the ticker tape with no sound, a cup of joe or a cold drink of water and nothing to bother me. The other day I had the big doors open while it was raining steady outside.....just heavenly. It's some of the best "anger management". And, to top it all off, it's efficient, and projects get done quickly and properly.
After digging/pouring the footing (three feet down) I laid block. There is lots of rebar, grouting and poured in place headers. After five years there is not a crack in it.....
I had gotten a hold of a load of unrelated old barn beams. I used them for the front and rear headers, floor beams and ridge poles. The latter allowed me to set the rafters unaided. (FWIW, except for pouring concrete it was all a one man job.)
Roof and windows.....
A lean to out the back. It now has sliding doors and the boat lives under it, as well as the lawn and garden department.
Some inside shots.....
The wife only had one restriction.....it had to match the house. There is a 4" brick ledge at grade and all that's left to do is lay the brick on the front, and the side facing the house..... 6000 or so. But the boat is first.
I am very appreciative of the fact that I have achieved a lifelong dream, a real shop. OK, it took me four years to build it, but it has heat, cooling, hot and cold running water, bathroom, cable, satellite radio, internet, fridge and coffee maker, lift for automotive action and many tools. (Almost said: all the tools, but we know that that is impossible.)
I can be in there all day working on something, the boat in this case, in comfort, with commercial free music, the ticker tape with no sound, a cup of joe or a cold drink of water and nothing to bother me. The other day I had the big doors open while it was raining steady outside.....just heavenly. It's some of the best "anger management". And, to top it all off, it's efficient, and projects get done quickly and properly.
After digging/pouring the footing (three feet down) I laid block. There is lots of rebar, grouting and poured in place headers. After five years there is not a crack in it.....
I had gotten a hold of a load of unrelated old barn beams. I used them for the front and rear headers, floor beams and ridge poles. The latter allowed me to set the rafters unaided. (FWIW, except for pouring concrete it was all a one man job.)
Roof and windows.....
A lean to out the back. It now has sliding doors and the boat lives under it, as well as the lawn and garden department.
Some inside shots.....
The wife only had one restriction.....it had to match the house. There is a 4" brick ledge at grade and all that's left to do is lay the brick on the front, and the side facing the house..... 6000 or so. But the boat is first.