We have been working on our house for 2 years now and its finally nearing completion.
When we first moved here, we stayed in our camper while working our our house.
You see people staying in campers all the time when they first move to the country to homestead and as a general rule, they all seem so happy...
I'm here to tell you, its a farce!
These jokers are trying to sell you a vacuum cleaner!
Because it sucks!
As such, we ended up moving into our house early and out of our camper sooner than we had initially planned on.
Since then, we have been playing a juggling act with all our possessions. Moving them from one area to the next as we work on that spot and so on.
A month or so back the game played its final hand.
It just couldn't go any farther. More room was needed. But what to do? Funds were non-existent..
'Time to get creative.' I thought, with the right idea I may yet hit two birds with one stone.
This reasoning gave birth to the $30 Shed.
Lumber wasn't an issue, thanks to the 12 loads I got free, (See Craigslist Part 2 Post) but conventional building styles were out. This would be a build all its own.
By far, the hardest part of this build was lugging up all the lumber on my back, but it was worth it as we only spent $30 total and as far as hitting two birds with one shed, we gained some much needed storage space as well as put a sizable dent in our lumber pile.
Then building the floor. Luckily, we had enough 2x6's, but the "flooring" had to be comprised of 7 pieces. Then I built the roof out of privacy fence panels. The walls were 2x3's we ripped down from 2x4's using the scraps for roof rafters.
The windows were pulled out of a dumpster the year before last and had previously been used to cover the cold frames we started our seedlings in before we built the greenhouse.
The siding is mainly pallet boards with some fencing slats.
All in all, it might have taken a week... but there's just one of me!
Upon completion, the most surprising thing I found was how many chairs we own!
-'The Digger
