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.
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.
Showing posts with label AC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AC. Show all posts
Monday, August 30, 2010
It's working!
Yep, the little hot plate works fine--one of the few things we've bought new for the shed, and I love it. Nice cuppa, yesterday morning. (The old copper kettle is from my camping days, the lovely pottery teapot from the early days of my first marriage...I was 21, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth...)
And no, it's not this colorful, but I had a black page and colored pencils--of course I went nuts!
Our good friend Kevin stopped stopped by the show us a pottery shard he'd found near the Fishing River, and we ended up with coffee and cookies and music in the shed. Glad we invested in that AC unit, because it was a lifesaver!
A lovely way to spend a Sunday...
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...
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