Why build yet another shed? Was I bored? Do I have copious amounts of spare time? To spend lots of money?
The respective answers are: No; NO!; and Absolutely not!
So why?
Well, my wonderful wife has spent many years perfecting her skills as a potter, and later a jeweller. Our house is full of colourful pottery pieces and stunning silver creations. However, my garage was also filling up with pottery tools, bags of clay, buckets of glaze, and even a very large kiln. The decision was made to build my wife a pottery shed.
This was a significant project, but it turned out to be the most wonderful creative space, and a great place for her to hide from me and the kids. The pot shed – no, not that sort of pot – was a typical weatherboard type of construction, designed around the used aluminium glazing we could find on Trade Me.
A second shed
Several years later, my son started to show a penchant for all things electrical. Suddenly, his bedroom was clogged with soldering irons, broken appliances, and general mess – and so was my garage! Again, the call was made to construct a shed.
Our section is small, steep, and mostly bush covered, so my son’s ‘mad scientist’s lair’ is nestled in the bush, between
