With the cold weather approaching, my days of smoking seemed numbered. It's just not fun sitting outside, fire pit or not, when it's windy and 30 degrees. So what did I do? I went right to my wife, told her I was the king of the castle, and I needed a place to smoke indoors!
When she got up off the floor from laughing, she mentioned an article she read in one of her magazines where they made a little den out of a detached garage. She said if I wanted to, I could do that. Hey, that's good enough for me!
So I've started. And when I say I've started, I mean I've taken the "before" pics and done some preliminary measurements. It looks like the room will be about 10' x 12', I'm going to have the power company come and run a new 100-amp circuit directly to the garage (as it is now, whenever I turn on one of my saws the lights in the house dim), I'm going to run satellite and Internet cables underground, put in a fridge and a space heater, some comfortable chairs, and all the trimmings of a good manly space (the humi will remain in the house).
This is going to take quite a while because there's a ton of crap in the garage I have to get rid of (anyone interested in 13 Sun Sparc 20's?), and we're really busy running back and forth to dance, karate, horseback riding, football, choir practice, piano.... but I'm going to do it. If I'm lucky I'll get a little help (you reading this, Mike?) and we'll be out there before the real snows hit!
Here are some photos, and if anyone's interested, I'll try and keep updating this thread with my progress. The first is the view from the front, where I hope to put the den. The middle photo is the back view, including crap, which will remain storage. The one on the right is the one from my wife's magazine. I'm hoping it turns out something like that, albeit a lot less frilly.
When she got up off the floor from laughing, she mentioned an article she read in one of her magazines where they made a little den out of a detached garage. She said if I wanted to, I could do that. Hey, that's good enough for me!
So I've started. And when I say I've started, I mean I've taken the "before" pics and done some preliminary measurements. It looks like the room will be about 10' x 12', I'm going to have the power company come and run a new 100-amp circuit directly to the garage (as it is now, whenever I turn on one of my saws the lights in the house dim), I'm going to run satellite and Internet cables underground, put in a fridge and a space heater, some comfortable chairs, and all the trimmings of a good manly space (the humi will remain in the house).
This is going to take quite a while because there's a ton of crap in the garage I have to get rid of (anyone interested in 13 Sun Sparc 20's?), and we're really busy running back and forth to dance, karate, horseback riding, football, choir practice, piano.... but I'm going to do it. If I'm lucky I'll get a little help (you reading this, Mike?) and we'll be out there before the real snows hit!
Here are some photos, and if anyone's interested, I'll try and keep updating this thread with my progress. The first is the view from the front, where I hope to put the den. The middle photo is the back view, including crap, which will remain storage. The one on the right is the one from my wife's magazine. I'm hoping it turns out something like that, albeit a lot less frilly.
