Finding a decent sized workshop as a base-camp for my business wasn’t as easy as i expected. After long discussions with my landlady, she gave me permission to convert her three lovely sheds into a work space to get me started.
Under one condition. The sheds needed a good old tidy up and another storage solution was need for all her gardening equipment, of which there were quite a lot. The idea i came up with was a safe lockup to store her tools.
Made from reclaimed wood from various donations, including numerous pieces of palette lengths of which i had a lot spare at that particular time. With a simple construction, I built a raised base with a hardboard boxed frame walls. Making a solid slopped roof from ex-bed slats covered with an impermeable membrane to keep the rain out!
Running low of supplies for the actual doors at the time, i decided to build my own from palette board lengths. My first attempt at this i might add and seemed to work out quite well, if i don’t mind saying so myself. They would also need waterproofing like the roof, so quite a few layers of varnish were needed to keep the elements out.
The final creation ended up quite a large and difficult to move, so after settling it in its final location i added a final few layers of racing green gloss paint. This almost camouflaged in its environment, which was one of the conditions of the build.
Hopefully my measurements were correct and all her gardening tools would fit in perfectly and so they did.
Another happy client.