There’s some sort of cliche about man needing a shed, and this one certainly does. My old place had a 8x12m shed, typical rural metal shed with high walls and absolutely no insulation. I found it was pretty unusable for about 3 months of the year after midday, as the whole thing became a hotbox and I’d just sweat all over my tools. My shiny new BAL restrictions meant I wanted to put the shed in front of the house, but the local planning scheme…Continue Reading “Meanwhile, the shed…”

Refining the floor plan

We’ve had some more back and forth. I propose something weird, Christian and Deepti temper it with some realism. I push for more weirdness… and so on. I countered by making the south wall needlessly complicated: At some point in here, we explored the idea of moving the main bedroom left, and swapping it with the bathroom/plant room. It added a small west-facing window in the kinked wall looking down the entrance path, which I really liked, but it meant accessing the bathroom only via…Continue Reading “Refining the floor plan”