This week, I confess, I am drooling. KJ Charles works in the kind of space I’d be all over, if I could use it for more than six months a year. Alas, our climate would make heating a writing shed or gazebo prohibitively expensive. Still, one can dream.
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“Basically, I work in a shed in the garden. The gate goes to the park behind our house which is why I complain a lot about squirrels: they take flying leaps off the tree and use my roof as a trampoline. The view isn’t much, basically of another shed at the, uh, utility end of the garden, but at least I see daylight all day, plus there are birds: robins, wrens, bluetits, coaltits, jays, blackbirds, the occasional parakeet, and lots of magpies.
Inside, we have…a blackboard wall, from the shed’s stint as the children’s playroom; a good chair (vital). My separate monitor is broken but I use a wireless keyboard because laptops are evil for your back. And a metric ton of books, which are primarily Regency and Victorian history, London history, queer history, folklore, Gothic and magic. I suspect you could play ‘guess the author from the bookshelf’ fairly easily.
And that’s the Shed.”
I think as long as it isn’t too big (think 2.5 x 3m tops) and you insulate it properly, it shouldn’t be that hard to warm it. One of those oil radiator heaters hooked up to a timer to turn on a couple of hours before you head in and you’re golden :).
Boj recently rebuilt our shed and I was sore anxious to do something like that too, but then all the yard stuff went back into it. Too bad!
You, my friend, are an evil enabler and giving me all sorts of ideas. We really need a tool shed, which will take up that space, but some day, who knows, a sunroom addition might be in order. At least a 3-season one should be doable.