In case you were wondering...

In case you were wondering...

This blog exists to encourage all those who have ever wanted--and needed!--a tiny getaway close to home. A workshop, playhouse, garden shed, sanctuary, mini-greenhouse, studio, home office; whatever it is you need, it IS doable, with some sacrifice, imagination, and compromise.

It helps if you're handy, too.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Interior IS filling up...WORTH IT!!


Soooo...this is a fan, a camp chair and a TV table, plus the folded camp chair in the corner.  Definitely filling up...


But we decided we really needed AC if I'm going to work out there at any time but morning!  (After hitting the emergency room with heat exhaustion a few years ago, I don't do hot really well...) 

We've only got the one window  that could have fit, but it's awning type.  Won't work for AC and sure not going to get central air for a shed!

I hated to cut a big enough hole for a window unit in that south wall, and we didn't really want to make it too obvious anyway...so we found a small freestanding portable unit on sale.  It came last week, and it was finally cool enough this morning to work on installing it!  MUCH smaller hole necessary than for a whole unit...




My handy man lined up the holes and cut the second one from the outside...electricity ROCKS.



Fine-tuning the hole...I'm inside, he's outside with the saw...


And yep, it DOES take up more floor space than either of us imagined.  WORTH IT. 

Especially later this morning!  For some reason the electricity went out at home while J. was out running errands, and though I thought I switched the errant breaker in the basement back on, nothing happened.  It was nice to go to the shed and be cool till he got home.  (Guess guy fingers are better than mine for flipping that switch--it worked immediately for him!)

Now if we could just figure out WHY the breaker blew...

4 comments:

  1. Still so loving the process and the tiny glimpses into that charmed interior!

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  2. Thank you, sweetie! I'm SO delighted we got the AC in today. It's been as nasty here as it has there...

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  3. I'm so glad you got AC! Can't go thru all that work and it be too stifling hot in there to use it, right? Awesome! :)

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  4. Me too, Rita! It was getting way to hot to be out there after 10 am...eeek!

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