What's your dream shed like?

[Arch]

Following on from a diversion on the Dream Bike thread:

https://www.cyclechat.net/

What would you have in your dream shed/garage/workshop? Yeah, tools and stuff, but what little specific things would make your shed perfect.

Apart from a good workstand, I'd need a worktop onto which I could lift (preferably with some sort of assistive hoist) my trike, to work on it at waist height, and not have to crouch down on the floor. Ideally in an island format, so that I could work all round it.

I half thought about this during the week when I was off sick watching day time telly, and a house buying programme, and one place had a big utility room just inside the back door, and I thought, oh, how cool to have an actual room in your house where you could wheel all your bikes straight in, and work on them in the warm and dry with radio and kettle close at hand.

 

[rh100]

My dream shed would just be bigger than my current one, a bit like n+1 but for shed floor area Can always use more space.

 

[Globalti]

A radio tuned to R4 with iPod connectivity. Fantastic lighting. A kettle. A urinal. Carpet. Plenty of shelves and hooks. Loads of sockets. A bookshelf for manuals etc. A lathe, pillar drill and grinding wheel. An extractor fan. Everything off the floor for easy cleaning. Heating. A house phone extension. A sink with hot water and a parts cleaning cabinet with paraffin circulation. A small oven. A stool. A comfy chair. Somewhere for the cat to sleep.

 

[Dayvo]

I love sheds and would really like to live in one!

Apart from all the necessary tools and bits and pieces, I'd have a rocking chair, wood burner and a hot plate on top to boil a kettle or soup, a small fridge for cold beer in the summer, a cupboard for brandy in the winter, a digital radio, internet access, small TV to watch cycling and cricket, a simple bed (for a kip after a hard day sitting in the shed) and one of those old-fashioned outdoor toilets (a deep hole in the ground).

I'd also have a small pantry for snack food and a supply of chocolate.

Oh, and a selection of good books and magazines.

Might even start to smoke a pipe, as well.

Perfect!

 

[montage]

Mine would be to have Narnia hidden in it

 

[longers]

What Globalti said but with wi-fi and woodburner. Apart from the lathe, parts cleaner, woodburner, carpet and cat it's exactly like where I park my bike at work.

 

[Arch]

A radio tuned to R4 with iPod connectivity. Fantastic lighting. A kettle. A urinal. Carpet. Plenty of shelves and hooks. Loads of sockets. A bookshelf for manuals etc. A lathe, pillar drill and grinding wheel. An extractor fan. Everything off the floor for easy cleaning. Heating. A house phone extension. A sink with hot water and a parts cleaning cabinet with paraffin circulation. A small oven. A stool. A comfy chair. Somewhere for the cat to sleep.

I think you mean "A comfy chair, somewhere for the cat to sleep, and another one for me to use...."

Hadn't thought of a plumbed in sink! Good thinking...

 

[Globalti]

Any jobs going at your place, Longers?

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I don't dream of sheds, however we already have the basis for what I would dream about, if I did, which is a small two-storey wooden barn. It just needs complete refurbishment and repainting, and I'd like to insulate it so we can use it for more of the year. There's a small wood-burning stove we will install when we've done that.

That's our barn in the background...

 

[marinyork]

I knew someone who built a shed over six months. I thought it was large enough to live in!

 

[Night Train]

I love sheds and would really like to live in one!

I think my perfect house would be a workshop with living accommodation!

My dream shed would be huge.
It would have a four post vehicle lift, gantry crane, blacksmith's forge, CNC milling machine, lathe, welding station and metal store at one end and a full cabinet making workshop with wood store at the other end. I'm thinking 100+' long, 30+' wide and 15-20' high inside.
It should also have covered parking for my trailers, bikes and car outside, preferably next to the saw mill.

I would want enough space to make furniture, electric cars and restore a traction engine.
I would quite like to have machines that worked on overhead line shafts and a steam engine but 3ph would be an essential for realistic practical use.

It would also need to be insulated for noise and heat with a wood burner and have a design studio on a mezzanine floor over the cabinet shop end. The design studio would need to have natural light from windows and Velux roof windows and include an A0+ drawing board and an Autocad work station.

I'm sure there are other things I would have, client meeting room, exhibition space, spray booth...


But you get the picture.

 

[vernon]

A radio tuned to R4 with iPod connectivity. Fantastic lighting. A kettle. A urinal. Carpet. Plenty of shelves and hooks. Loads of sockets. A bookshelf for manuals etc. A lathe, pillar drill and grinding wheel. An extractor fan. Everything off the floor for easy cleaning. Heating. A house phone extension. A sink with hot water and a parts cleaning cabinet with paraffin circulation. A small oven. A stool. A comfy chair. Somewhere for the cat to sleep.

My shed has all of the above apart from the extractor fan, urinal, sink, phone line and oven. I can't get into it because it's full of model aircraft airframes in various states of completion. I don't have a cat so I'm not worried about feline sleeping spots.

I need a further shed - sound proofed to accommodate bagpipe playing.

 

[Globalti]

Vern, I'm coming over to visit you soon; you sound like a bloke's bloke!

 

[thomas]

it would need room for a model railway & scaletrics

 

[vernon]

it would need room for a model railway & scaletrics

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