Garden Chill Room.
Garden Chill Room
Back in the real world, we’ve just enjoyed a night in the garden with some friends into the early hours of the morning and for some reason we’ve both woken up early and motivated to make some changes to the house. Where we live had an extension built on the side making an integral garage area at the front which we decided to convert into a playroom when the kids were still tiny, leaving all of the bulky toys, tools and gardening equipment to be re-homed into the original garage at the rear.
Most of our neighbours have long since demolished theirs in exchange for a bigger garden but given the condition the house was in when we bought it, this had never really made it onto our radar. We discussed replacing it with a garden room but had never really gone anywhere with it.
So, with only a minor hangover and no real plans for the weekend we rough-up a plan and head to the timber yard.
There aren’t any beefy looking timbers in there, so I opt for two 5″ x 1.1/2″ C24 lengths to act as a lintel (probably overkill really) before we can pull out the window and door and start removing the brickwork.
The front aspect at some point would have had a door in, so it has been walled-up and is pretty easy to dismantle, the side aspect needs a bit more work.
To cut the garage in half and still give us access, we need to do the same again around the back to put the door into what will be a storage area and I get busy building up a concrete block wall from bottom to top and run the electrics in a different route to keep it hidden and safely tucked away.
With all of that done, it’s all down to battening and boarding the insides with a nice red-pine boarding, exhausting the supply with just one board to spare.
That’s the weekend gone though so Gary, Rachel’s dad, helps us out the following day while I’m at work and has re-pointed the rough walls and half-brick gaps. So, by the time I’m home it’s starting to look pretty good.
Once the lighting is installed, the electric heater and garden furniture gets moved in and it gets its first trial run with a beer ..or two