The Machine Shed - a place to keep my collection
 

We're finally getting working on this - the best way to get the machines out of the house!

Stripped off the tin that the PO had put over the old roofing and siding

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DH cut the building loose and then pulled off the end wall.

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He expected to knock in part of the front wall, but with just a tap of the skidsteer bucket - it folded right up.

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This will get burned in the winter when there is snow on the ground.


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And starting on the new shed. Full height walls (yea!)

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DH had to disconnect the electricity before starting, and then teased me "what you want electricity? I thought you were only going to have treadles out here!"

Looking good!

Oh, I'm so excited for you. Keep us posted as progress is made. Hopefully this great Indian Summer weather will continue for a long time!

This is awesome. Please post pics regularly. A craft studio all its own? Heck, yes.

What I see must just the reception porch area for the main Machine Shed. The “shed” needs to be about 10-times that size, doesn’t it.....?

FWIW: An old Supermarket across the street from our house went up for auction last Friday. It is an 18,540 square feet brick building. I haven’t heard yet what it brought. My wife and I looked at it as a really cool sewing machine storage building, then decided it might not be big enough......plus the fact that we probably couldn’t even afford to have the electricity turned on, much less heat it and cool it......or pay the taxes on it.......or insure it.......or maintain it.......but it sure would hold a bunch of sewing machines!

CD in Oklahoma

Love seeing what you are doing. (And your property looks so pretty and rural.) Does the red-sided, tin-roofed part remain structurally sound? Will it be part of the Machine shed?

I agree it's going to be smaller than I would have liked, but I'm going to make it work! Besides, this will help to put a limit on my sewing machine collection. I will use the wall shelves like I have in the house, so I can have a lot on display.

There will be the workroom on the one end, and I'm not sure how I'll arrange the rest, but maximum machine capacity is the goal. I also want to be able to have 2- 3 people able to sew at a time, in case I want to give lessons or just let someone try machines out.

Sheri - this was two buildings butted up together. So we left the joint wall and that will be replaced after we get most of the framing on the other section done. DH and I have a LOT of experience doing stuff like this . . .

The part left is quite a bit newer, and in a lot better shape. We already did quite a bit to it, but had kept the tin siding. After we get the new building done, we'll fix the roof and siding on the east section to match. The east side is my summer kitchen, and it's already insulated and heated.

Well Cathy,
When you all get through with yours, if you'd like to spend the winter in a nice Southern state, (oh, and maybe build another one of these...) let me know. I was born and raised in MT so I know what the winters are like; we used to joke that we'd do anything to escape during that time of the year!
JK...it's looking good!

Wow, how great! I would love something like that.

You need electricity for the lathe, to remake new parts. Duh! ;)

momto5

Both my adult kids live in GA now, and my inlaws retired to FL. We joke about getting their retirement home eventually. I think if I knocked out the wall between the living room and master bedroom, I would have enough room for my long arm frame. We'd still have the second bedroom and the sun room can be used for guest sleeping as needed. . .

But I've got about 15 years before retirement, so we'll make do up here for a while longer (I love my job and we love living where no one else wants to live LOL!!)

Got part of the second wall up - this isn't going to go real fast. DH is doing it mostly by himself as I've got other things I need to be working on for now.

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The interior measures 13' x 19'. I'm sure it won't be enough room LOL!! But then I'll start selecting and hopefully I can send machines home with people that stop by to see what I've got - until I don't have extras anymore.

Most of my machines will be displayed on shelves, with bases so they can be taken down and put in treadle cabinets to use as desired. Most of the Singers will be staying in the house though.

How exciting to have such a handy hubby to do this for you. Love to see your special place when its all finished. Looks like your having beautiful weather for the start of your remodel. Hope it holds.

BTW - if we get a lathe - it's going in his shop. He may whine about "my" building, but he's got way more square footage than I do.

I did promise him that if i get tired of sewing machines and get rid of them, he can use this building for woodworking- so he'd motivated to make it nice. That is one reason for higher ceilings, less likely to take out a light when swinging an 8' board around.

one more wall up and we're done for the night. This time of year is so great for working (the cold nights kill off the insects) except that it gets dark a bit early. In another week it will even be worse. But we do have lights.

It's going to have a big window in the front - the one we took out of my folk's den. It was only a few years old so worth saving.

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Looks really good so far! Congrats on getting started.
Rodney

You work fast and it looks so nice. I am curious about how you are going to match the roof lines.

Good to see that at long last you will get that extra sewing machine space.

The rooflines won't match. This one is going to be above the other, and symmetrical. It's not hard to do as long as one entire roof is above the other. If you look around, you'll see this quite common where a garage butts into a 2 story house.

How neat! and I think your DH is a real keeper for doing this. Be sure to post pictures and this project progresses. I don't have much of a collection of machines, but would love to have a building large enough to do all of my quilting in.
Only problem there I would never want to be in the house to do anything, lol, perhaps then my house would stay clean,if there wasn't quilting stuff everywhere. lol.

Lots of work ahead of you but it will be super nice when you are finished. Keep us informed with pictures of your progress.

I LOVE watching buildings go up! It's going pretty fast too! Before you know it, you'll be inside and toasty warm arranging machines! It's going to be very nice.

It's going to be nice! I was looking for something upstairs and I've got stuff all over the place (like the floor, on top of each other, in boxes on top of machines . . .) I may need to take a week off work to try to get things organized. I have to much . . . stuff! (Ok, if that is true why do I keep buying more?) Actually, I have too much of the wrong stuff!

I think it's going to be painful - because I'm going to have to make some choices and some are going to need to go.

What a wonderful space you will have. I love it. Mine is a Mennonite built l6x38 building set up by itself behind our house, and is absolutely wonderful. But only 7 or 8 years into it, and I am crowded out of it. I have to make myself do what you are facing, get rid of it, or pile it somewhere else......a dreaded chore for me. I start trying to clear out, then start remembering (memory trips) and there goes my day of getting my sewing room cleaned up.

And, oh yes, I love your chickens. Wish we could have some; but for the time being, no can do. We love our road trips too much, and grandkids are getting too old for us to depend on them when we take off.

I’m confident that you said that correctly, but it does seem like it should be the other way around, huh? (as in: grandkids are still too young....)

CD in Oklahoma

I must say, you have a fantastic husband to do all that.

Looks great...Love the chickens...

Me, too! A quilting friend of mine has a few, and I wish we could have them (she's almost in the country). Their eggs are fantastic!

What a neat space you will have! Hmmm, there is a small playhouse in our backyard which was built for the small daughters of the previous owner. It's really small, but maybe it could be enlarged a bit, plus it has electricity.


Hmmm, indeed!

We heard that it went for $18G, which would be about $1 per square foot. Not bad for owning your own storage building and the land it’s on, including a paved parking lot. Even at that though, we wouldn’t be able to afford to maintain a roof that size even if we didn’t hook any utilities up and just used it for storage.

I think that keeping your Machine Shed a more “manageable size” is probably good thinking, and I hope it’s still coming along nicely. I wish I had one like it.

CD in Oklahoma

That's cheap, pretty much unheard of around here. Still if I had a place that big I'd just fill it up and have a bigger mess on my hands.
Rodney

DH is keeping busy - when he's ready I'll go out and help put the east wall in place. I'd rather be out helping him, but I've got other obligations (like my job LOL!!) So I'm inside doing that and only helping when he needs another body.

I'm also taking down my quilt frame so I can put up the new one, and get the old loaded in the van for the trip to St. Louis, were I'll be picking up my MOP Singer 12. I'm not sure who is more excited, me to get that machine or my friend to be getting the quilting machine.

More progress. DH got ready to put in the east wall, but first he had to take out the one that was there. So he cut it loose and pulled it out of the way.

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Here is the end of the building- minus the end.

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Accidentally "Rodanned" a pan while doing this . . .oh well, at least it was one I didn't really like anyway.

East wall in place - DH sheathed it before we set it, otherwise he'd not be able to get in there and get that part done.

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And the last wall section, ready to nail together. It's going to be windy tomorrow, so DH wants the walls all secure.

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very nice! Well done so far!!

This thread makes me happy! Another wall up is good! I wish I could build, it's very cool.

Makes me happy, too! It looks so good, and is going up so quickly, at least from my perspective, ha!

Looks pretty large to me! Nice!
/sandy

Nice, Cathy! It's looking awesome! Now...here's a little tip from this contractor's wife. (whispering) Don't let him stop until it's completely finished. The devil's in the details.

~ C

If the details don't get done, it won't be DH's fault - that's my job.

Smiling - that's my job too, my DH is great with the strength and power tool phase but when it comes to finish work, that is my domain!