Nothing Else to Talk About
This construction project has become rather all-consuming, sucking up all my attention during non-working daylight hours. I’ll try to make up fiction or have insightful comments about world events just as soon as I’m done making sawdust. Meanwhile, you get progress photos.
This week I made it as far as building the windows on the front and getting everything properly hinged. Last weekend I had closed in the large front section without windows—the idea was to make it harder to break in and steal my tools, to save time, and to have a section which would open up and out forming a canopy. However, it turned out looking flat, ugly and rather dead, just as I’d predicted but then pushed aside in the hurry to get things done.
So back to the drawing board. I changed the hinge design completely, building a pivot so the entire window assembly still tilts up into a canopy and the bottom doors below the window open barn-style. (Pictures soon.) Then I made the windows out of tough plexiglass instead of glass. Now it’d be easier to break in through the wooden wall than the windows. As for the visual on my tools, I’m just going to install thick curtains.
The nice thing about this design, other than the much better look, is that the shed can now be used (by someone else in the future) as potting shed and place to start plants. My wife was angling for this to begin sometime before “the next person” but that ain’t gonna happen. I’ve got to get my tools out of the doghouse and into a proper workshop in there if any of the other house projects are going to happen.
That’s the report for this week. Tune in after turkey-day for the near-complete version.
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