Exciting times

After a zillion years of waiting, it looks like our mega-shed (i.e. three-car garage, which will probably never hold a car) is in the process of being built. The concreting guy came by on Weds. and put the forms in; Saturday he'll come back and pour the concrete slab; the shed kit gets delivered on the 27th (?-have to go look at my notes); and a few days later, the assembly guys come and assemble it!

The basic layout is at left (just illustrative; not to scale): a single-car ''roller door'' at the bottom; a three foot(?) wide roller door at the top left; a regular ''person door'' on middle left; and a window at the top right, bottom left, and bottom right. (The windows open, for ventilation.)

Initially, the shed won't have power (electricity) running to it, as we've already blown out our budget by adding a two-car carport to the front (figured we'd do it as a single batch, rather than retrofitting in a few years). But, at least we can shift most of our misc. boxes, suitcases, Christmas ornaments, and etc. from our of our living room and dining room (which have been completely filled with boxes since we moved in, and are thus completely un-usable; our house has neither [useable] attic nor basement nor garage, nor spare room -- hence the mound o' boxes).

Eventually, I hope to drywall the inside, and put a divider wall up. The top end (about 1/3 of the total; sketch is not to scale), will be the woodshop, with the ''Great-Grandpa'' workbench positioned under it. Usually people prefer more than just a single-car garage bay for their woodshops; however, I'll be using 80%-90% hand tools, which don't require as much room as if you had a table saw, tabletop planer, jointer, and etc. (I plan to eventually get a drill press (tall and skinny, doesn't take much room -- although you need room on either side for drilling long things), a woodturning lathe (long and skinny, fits against the wall), and a large bandsaw (for resawing and milling logs into boards; will be in an outbuilding).

The remaining two-thirds will be for misc. storage (note the anticipated floor-to-ceiling storage racks out of plywood and 2" x 4"s), plus my music gear (drum kit, guitar and amp), punching bag and weightlifting stuff, and whatever hobbies my kids end up doing, which we don't have room for in the house (The Girl [5yo] seems likely to be heavily into dance, and/or painting).

The "music/recording studio" end will receive a double-layer of drywall, plus a recording desk (probably at the bottom -- the garage roller door automatically comes with the kit, whether you want it or not). Probably build a short passageway around the door between the woodshop and the recording room/gym, to use as an isolation/vocals booth. And maybe run some cable to the woodshop, to use as an additional isolation room.

Really looking forward to having this: it'll let us actually eat in our dining room! (Currently, the table is covered with table lamps and collectable teacups and saucers, with ''suitcases'' of 8-tracks and cassette tapes stacked at one end, and a red punching bag on the other...)


--GG