Finally, Some Aesthetics!

I’ve been in a bit of a lull lately, largely due to the fact that the next two big steps of this shedshop transformation have to happen in an exact order, and the first one has to happen on someone else’s schedule.

I have to insulate the shed before Winter (specifically before it gets consistently below 60°, which is really pushing my deadline up, because thanks a lot Maine), and I’m going to do that myself with a spray foam kit. HOWEVER, I can’t do that without first running electric to the shed, which I cannot and will not do myself.

So, I’ve scheduled the electric job to happen next week, so in the meantime, major shedshop jobs are on hold. THAT means, that I get to start making my shedshop look like a shedshop (yes, I’m really leaning into this new word…I am not making a “she shed.” Got it?)

Oh wait - but first, a non-aesthetic thing: venting and tar paper! There’s a small gap between the roof and the walls that could allow bugs in behind the insulation once it’s in. I lucked out an found this roll of metal screen material in the shed when we first moved in, so I cut it to size and used it to line that gap! Then I finished putting up the tar paper on the back wall for waterproofing.

See the screen? It’s up at the top.

Serendipitous Screen!

Okay, NOW for the aesthetic stuff. It’s really not that big of a deal; I don’t know why I’m hyping it up so much…

Anyway, I added a rug! That’s the big thing that happened. It helps that my traveling workbench (or as my sister has lovingly dubbed it, my Twerkbench - gotta love those portmanteaus) has a piano action on it for the first time since its inception! I also hung a couple of clamps and my shop apron on the nails coming through the sheathing (see? over on the right?), so I can pretend that I’m actually finding places for things where they’ll never move again, but we all know that’s not the case.

Oh! And I found just the most CHARMING door stop, don’t you think?