Most of the work I do on my side projects is done late at night after the kids are in bed, sitting on the couch, although this is definitely a convenient and comfortable option, I find it distracting and hard to really knuckle down and get in that working zone that you need to be in to do real amazing work.
Unfortunately we have a very small house, and all 3 of the bedrooms are taken, so there is no space for a study, or somewhere I can go to get away and work.
Back when I was drinking I spent a lot of time in my backyard shed, it was my little escape area, a place I could go and drink in peace without getting bothered, I always had idea's to turn the shed into a bit of a man cave, mainly to make my drinking hangout a little more comfortable, but as with most of the idea's I had when I was drinking they remained just that, idea's, obviously I have stopped drinking alcohol so the want to turn the shed into anything related to alcohol has gone.
So the shed has sat there not really been used for anything but storage the past 7 months I started clearing it out a bit a few weeks ago and that's when the idea came to me to turn it into a mini office. It has power, it has space, it already had a work bench albeit it needed a lot of work.
So for the past few weeks I have been moving things around to clear the bench so I could get to it and see what needed to happen to make it workable, once I saw it in all it's glory it was clear it needed replacing so that's what I spent my weekend doing.
I bought a new piece of pine would wood from our local hardware store Bunnings which would fit the stand that was already in the shed perfectly, I also bought some varnish, sandpaper and a little roller kit. so I was fully set to go by 6:30pm on Friday night, so I got to work sandpapering, once I'd finished sanding I had time to give it the first coat of varnish and let it dry overnight.
Saturday morning it was still a little wet so I left it till the afternoon and gave it another coat, there was only a little bit of paint left so I decided to let it dry again and give it a third coat.
By Sunday morning it was dry enough to move back into the shed, so I moved it back in there. once I got it in there I realized I need a high chair, as it was a rather high bench top and the piece of pine added an additional 30mm to it. So basically what I was looking for was a bar stool and a comfy one that would allow me to sit and work for a few hours at a time. I checked our local Gumtree and found one exactly like what I had in mind for 30 bucks, the guy who was selling it was only about 20 mins drive away so I went and picked it on the Sunday afternoon .
All the pieces were starting to come together there is still a lot to do, from cleaning dusty shelves to finding additional storage for things that I don't have space for in the shed, but this will just be chipped away at over the next few weeks and eventually it will be a comfortable working environment.The Alcoholic Entrepreneur
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