Dad’s work shed is FINALLY getting some much needed attention!
Dad’s work shed was originally a single car garage that was turned into a storage shed years ago.
Don’t be too quick to judge the shed; it’s actually a pretty good size inside and has great bones.
Unfortunately, over the years former owners took down the garage door. What’s worse is that they took one of our lovely interior doors (including our beautiful glass knobs and Art Deco door plate hardware thingies) and “constructed” the “entrance” to the shed you now see and enjoy.
Take a moment and marvel at the handy work:
Notice that gap underneath the door and siding?
Whoever rebuilt the front left such a large gap between the cement floor and the siding/door area that when it when it rains (even a little) it floods the inside of the shed. Poor Daddy.
It also lets in all kinds of critters; the worst of which have been snakes, a spider the size of Montana, and mice.
A window on one side has been boarded up and we don’t know where the window is.
Notice too, some former owner attached (we use the term loosely) another “shed” to the back of the brick one. It doesn’t have a floor and Adri thinks it looks like an outhouse. The girls of the family REFUSE to go anywhere near it. It’s icky and we’re pretty sure things live in it.
We do have lots of plans for the shed. Dad’s going to put double carriage house style doors on the front, some sort of lantern lights on either side of the new doors, replace the window, take down the nasty ugly siding, and one day in the distant future get rid of the nasty brown roof (that doesn’t even match the black
roof on our house).
This past weekend Dad put a vintage cupola with an eagle weather vane on the roof.
He found it for a very good price at an antique festival recently.
Being that our house is Colonial Revival there are quite a few eagle details throughout our house (like our original eagle door bell), so this fits right in.
First Dad and Owen got up on the roof to determine where the cupola should be positioned.
After they determined where on the roof it should go, they came up with a new way to get on the roof.
A manly way.
We wish we had some dramatic background music for this part.
Here’s another dramatic looking moment.
A father-son kind of moment (because no girl in the Gladu house is about to get on that ladder contraption!).
Ta Da!
We know this isn’t too exciting for most of you out there, but let this be a sign of hope for neglected (and abused) sheds everywhere!
