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Introducing the Shed

This is such an exciting addition to our property. I’m just going to blast away with photos first:

If you read the last post, you know that we needed storage. We also needed some covered outdoor space that could flex between hangout and work zone. Hangout is obvious, work zone is maybe obvious when you see how small the Shop is, even when it is clean. Big railing jobs have historically been built in the driveway, and protected with tarps and pop-up canopies, which is not ideal. So check out our amazing new outdoor room! We love it!

Below, a video showing the custom locking mechanism that Morgan designed and created for the big sliding doors:

Shed as workspace with very bright work lights in full effect:

This is night time!

Some details:

You don’t see the brackets here, that’s on purpose.
This cool thing Kevin and Leah gave us a long time ago.

Here are some process shots, including our main helper Jeremy Calvert and occasional helper Mark Tomkiewicz:

Thanks Mark!
Thanks, Jeremy!

And finally a few images to remind us what this area used to look like, plus a previous blog post for context:

The back door and the basement door.
Looking at the house and yard from where the Shed is now.
Funky old decking and back porch during demo.

We have one more big disruptive piece to do, but that’s for another post. In the meantime, we will enjoy this great new addition to our day to day lives.

Shed and Hot Tub, 2023

Stepping it up

The big house project of the summer finally got underway last month. You know how it goes. At any rate, Morgan is building a sort of shop addition, a covered deck with a shed/closet on the east side where we can put our sports and camping gear, big tools, off-season gear, and gardening equipment.

Hot tub move thanks to friends! Thank you so much, friends!

Right now that stuff is either in the old kitchen (which will someday be a bathroom and laundry room), in a cramped attic space above the shop, taking up precious floor space in the shop, or tucked into a corner of the yard. This is what happens when you turn your old basement into a living space.

Steps to stairs.

Throughout this project there have been many glorious moments when things find their forever homes, as with our craft and office cabinets. This structure will likely potentiate several of those moments, and I will do my best to share them with you as they arrive.

❤️ Morgan’s notes in the landing pad. ❤️

In the meantime, one concrete piece of the structure has been completed, and we can now run up and down stairs on the east side of the house instead of slipping and sliding on the muddy slope we had there. Check out the step lights in the side of the house, finally united with their true purpose.

Morgan showing off the alternative to a slippery slope.

Hut Tub, RIP

Hut Tub circa 2010

Hut Tub circa 201

Hut Tub, RIP, 2014

Hut Tub, RIP, 2014

Our friend Buphalo purchased a fully- gutted short sale in 2010, a home that needed extensive work before it could sufficiently shelter him. In an effort to save money, and because he has always been more comfortable outside, he and Morgan decided to build a little shack over the remnants of a dead cedar hot tub we had on our deck that he could sleep in until his place was ready. We called it the Hut Tub.
The tub had been too leaky since 2004 to use as a tub, so they converted it to the tiny “sunken living room” of the hut. A tiny wood stove was found to put inside it, a bed platform was built, walls, windows, a roof… what more could you need? Never mind that you could see daylight between the siding boards, and that the temperatures got down into the teens one week, it was a perfectly cozy little home.
We have had only a few other people stay there since Buphalo moved on–it made a decent fair-weather guest house– but we have had little fires and used it to hang out in. It was a very charming little clubhouse.
No more! Making way for a new storage shed with proportions more suitable to our needs, the Hut Tub met its end last Friday. Buphalo was there for the end, as he was in the beginning.
We will remember it fondly.