You seems as spacially unaware as I am! I'm glad someone else out there does similar things... After my wife passed (who was the gardener), I had some work done around the window of the front bedroom (bungalow - so that bedroom is ground floor with a window 3ft or so off the ground) and the bed below the window there was stuffed with the work being done - so I thought I'd replant it - got some virburnum and 4 acers that I thought I could then trim/cut back each year to a shape and size. Yeah - ok - keep an acer (even dwarf) about 3-4ft? Hmmmm.. Those were the 4 acers I moved last year into pots.
Ours gets good use. I have my weight bench,F bike in there, for winter. They were in the spare room but have 2 grandkids average of every 6 weeks, at least,meant I had to haul them into the conservatory and they were in the way there. ( the excercise stuff, NOT the grandkids!)Got the radio out there,a little fan heater/cold. That is probably the one first lines of a book I always remember!
I am still getting over the concept of an empty shed. Didn't realise that such a thing could exist. But yours was no mere shed @steveTu, it had happy memories for you and is now going to a good home. And you have a new space to play with.
Space to someone who is spatially unaware. Not sure if that's a good thing. If I tried to get 4 acers under a 3ft window, I wonder how many oaks I can get in a new 3m square space? Now there's a challenge - I need some squared paper....
(Our shed wasn't empty - we had: a two seater settee, an electric heater, a table, a bathroom cabinet (still boxed) - don't ask, 4 garden chairs (the ones being used in the photo), two stereo systems with large floor standing speakers, a book shelf, my wife's arty-crafty stuff in a 4 tier wheeled drawer thingy. All had be re-homed before we started the demolition. My garage was already full anyway - and today I was going to 'do' the bathroom ceiling, but I can't get to the sandpaper box or paint until the garage is cleared now...)
I'm sure you can get a LOT of oaks in a 3m square space @steveTu - at least in the form of acorns! And I know that game - the thing that needs to be done can't be done until the other thing is done. We have a glass shower screen still in its box after deciding that a shower curtain would be better for us. Which wasn't fitted properly in the first instance so we bought another one, so we now also have a box of shower rail duplicates. Shutting the door on it all now and forgetting about it...
I use mine (inherited) as storage now - after eight years of swearing I wouldn't do that. Mine has been used for many things over the years - esp good when I had lodgers. It's been a music room for a professional cellist, used for mediation classes. I've helped numerous friends moving country store their stuff during transition. Now it kind of has covid goods in it for the neighbourhood, but I have to clear it out now or else it will stay bung full of forgotten stuff. I always feel I should use it more - I offered it to neighbours to work in over covid, but the offer hasn't been taken up.
It has the same issues of no loo, a little electric heater etc. But it has been great. I always think that if I hadn't inherited it I might have had bees in the space. I wouldn't have put up a shed myself.
Thank you - it's years ago now anyway - I just bang on about stuff!
It's such a shame though isn't it? They're really good spaces aren't they. Shame you can't get one to go indoors next to the kitchen and loo.
Odd you should mention bees - I had thought about doing a course on bee keeping and was talking to my niece's husband about it on Saturday as the flowers on the ivy a couple of doors away was absolutely alive with bees. Maybe my extra 1.5x3m bit in the wilderness could house a hive or two.
Loads of friends and neighbours use theirs as home offices. When I have had lodgers (about half my years in this house) the shed has been invaluable as extra space - for me or them as the house is pretty small. I've had no lodgers in covid times.
Space is such a luxury, in London at least. I realise I do like having it as a buffer and a resource. Coming here after living in rural Canada, where acres of garden, loads of outhouses and land is norm, it seems crazy to feel bad about not using a two metre wide shed. I try and remember how twisted dense city living can get.
Having a spare room raises eyebrows in these parts.
At the end of the wilderness we have two trees on a stream (that I think I mentioned here) that turned out not to be mine - but have to go anyway. A friend of my wife's has a husband wot is tree surgeon. He popped round last week and we were chatting - as you do - and I was saying about the shed going - and he is just putting in a larger one than ours in his garden as they'd filled up their house (one of those three level, 4 bedroom places) and he wanted somewhere to act as a pukka office - and after he placed the order, his son told him he was moving out anyway and his daughters have also recently gone, so it will be him and his wife rattling around in a 4 bed with a super large 'shed'. That's an hotel isn't it? Well at least they could avoid each other for days in the event of an argument - or play a mean game of real life Cluedo. '....I'm just going down the shed dear...I may be gone for some time...'
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