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That is an awesome job. My only comment was had it been me, there would have been more windows on the side and back but as you said, wall space is important for you.
Started working on momma's garden shed. I picked up a bunch of sawmill lumber. 1x6 fir for the vertical wall siding on 3 walls, 1x8 fir for the ceiling, and 1x10 cottonwood for a a horizontal wood wall that joins with the shop.
Had to stack and sticker the wood for a while. The fir is down to 11% so that's going up first. Cottonwood is still at 36%- got a ways to go on that...
Currently the shop itself is, umm, a storage unit and a mess, lol. My mom passed away in November and I'm storing some 'things' my sister wanted to keep. I have to drive that stuff to her place this summer.
In Alaska.
Plus I'm storing the wood for the garden shed, and assembling the components to finish the shop. I've got to get a drywall lift that can raise 15' to do the ceiling this summer.
It's been a brutal winter here- temps rarely got above 0 and I couldn't do any work in the shop. Without insulation my wood furnace is pretty useless at those temps. Maybe 10 degree rise in temps at full tilt.
I did manage to build a set of shelves for my camping and hunting gear. I'll build another set along the side wall. The back wall of the shop will have a bench table running between the existing shelves and the large cabinet- about 16' foot long.
The back wall is cottonwood. One thing I learned about cottonwood- it is wet. Moisture from the sawmill was 35%, I had it stacked, stickered and drying in the shop. It warped. It bowed. Some boards got moldy. I had to take it to a friend that has a full wood shop and we fought it to get the boards joined (edges straight). I wound up with a greater gap than I wanted, but hey it's a potting shed, lol. Had to sand it, spritz it with bleach, and install it on the wall with furring strips to get some airflow behind the boards.
But I like the mineral streaks in it. Really has some character.
Almost done with the ceiling, the side walls are next, then we stain the concrete floor.
Love this thread. Thanks so much for posting all the photos. I am so, so impressed with what you had done AND with what you're doing yourself. I wish I knew how to do all that!
And summer in Alaska could be amazing ... just sayin'. (Very sorry to hear about your mother, though!)
Pretty much done with the garden room until winter.
Lights up-
Window trim done- (my wife will template out the corners to soften them on an arc..
Baseboard up.
We have to wait for the wood to normalize on the back on wall and upper edges before we do the ceiling trim and plane and fit the back wall. She's pretty happy.
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