Way lax on blogging

This is part of the reason for little to no work on the project or blog.  You see we decided that Marianne needed her own art work space besides halfway through the house here in Boise.  So due to the fact that the back yard is tiny, we decided to make it even smaller, sort of.  Now according to the city code, it is within code mind you, it is a storage building.  No more than 120 sq. feet., 7 feet in height from ground level to top of the walls, away from other bldgs. the required distance, ect.

Monkey in the window? 

So the story is, oldest son Jake did most of the framing and siding with my help and some help from other son Johhn.  I did the roofing, some of the wiring and most of the insulating.  Marianne did all of the painting to this point, except for the door.  I put the first coat of paint on it tonight.  The door has turned out as good as I could ever hope.  We bought it off of craigslist for 30 bucks, solid heavy wood frame, double pane glass, also heavy.  I cut off about 5 inches to get it to fit.  As you can see it swings out, Mariannes request, I have never built a door frame until this project.  Man did I get lucky, this baby is just about as perfect as can be.  With Mariannes help hanging it and  without any harm to either of us or the door, it fits and swings as good as any I've seen.

Lots more work to be done on this as we will be putting a miniture deck around it and raised garden boxes against the alley side, drip irrigation and so forth.  I have some fun design ideas to put in place with the deck and boxes to hide and utilize the blocks that are currently visible, but they won't be when we're finished.  I dare say it is nice to have a project right out the back door to work on versus driving  2 hours before starting work on it.  I'll post some other photos showing that it hasn't been all work on this and no play.

Later

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