After finally completing the new garden shed and moving everything out of the old sheds, we could begin on renovating them.
The design was simple: resize the existing 3 rooms (each measuring around 2.5 x 5m) to make a box room (2.5 x 3m) a cubby for chemicals, pool equipment and charging station (2.5 x 1m) a studio for art, craft, yoga / whatever (2.5 x 4m) and a workshop (2.5 x 7m).
The roof height would need to be increased, a ring beam to hold it all together, some new windows that were space conscious and a large veranda on the south side to make for more work space to spill out from the rooms when the doors were open.
And so the work began, removing old roof sheets and timbers, knocking out walls and windows and preparing the building for a 115x230mm ring beam with two 14mm deformed steel bars to tie the building together and prevent future cracks.
Then it was time to start building the sliding barn doors for the workshop and studio.
The box room door was going to be a recycled Oregon pine door from one of the original shed doors
My little helper was invaluable in getting the sliding doors hung
After a lot of time and energy, the electrical work for the lighting circuits was completed and the lights flicked on at sunset… very proud 🙂
There is still quite a lot to be done. Painting, plug sockets, interal lights, security lights, another distribution board for power supply to forest lights, benches for the workshop (hence the timber on the veranda) but it was a good time to take stock of what we’d achieved!
Some roof timber we recovered from the old sheds, beautifull Oregon pine that I hope to repurpose into either a dining room table and coffee tables for the veranda.
