Fire up the Fergie, time to build my new studio.

That’s just ridiculously nice. Well done chap!

Lovely.

But my wife says “that would take up all our garden”. She’s right, I must buy some of the field next door 😉

I’d imagine light in a workspace would be just as important for your work too.

If you need any advice just give me a shout. I’m sure you guys could build one. Hee hee, it took nbt ages to build our log store.

I love this thread and all the pictures, looking forward to the surprise colour P. Just not pink o.k 🙂

I reckon he’ll go for a “ye olde Cotswold green” 🙂

or maybe one of:

duck egg blue looks good on these timber buildings

I was hoping for a clear preservative so the wood would go silvery as it weathered. As it is undercoated I’m going to be nonspecific and say a shade of blue! Algae, green stuff is going to be a bugger being under the trees though.

I reckon it’ll be purple leftovers, he can’t resist a bargain.

My uncles first pottery at the bottom of the garden started out fairly simple, built with materials reclaimed from worksites he was on at the time and some good storms and beach-combing. Initially similar in size to McM’s with a veranda. Over time the veranda was boxed in for display room, then another veranda built when he realised he used the old one for drying wetsuits, out the back it grew a bit more for an electric kiln, then squared off with a music studio and finally a deck out back so he could check surf conditions across the bay.
He moved a few years ago and is now in a small farm courtyard, lovely warm yard of old Granite sheds, but the first shed was amazing.

Gotta be green or the colour of the local stone. Round here in deepest cotswold stone/second home owning/they fight against an allotment because it ruins the look of the village, you cant move for that green on every frame/door in sight. The chap up the lane duly painted his all bright pink! you cant believe the outcry!

Just noticed the blue chep pallet as part of the veranda, watch out chep are very possesive of them. Ps I aint seen nothing.

I was tickled to find the colour speculation when I logged in. Thanks for the enthusiasm.

It’s not an obvious choice. But it’s a colour which appears among the trees and the immediate landscape and passing weather systems.

Eau de Nil was a front runner until I rode past the Pettycur Bay caravan park and noticed all the static vans were painted a similar shade.

So, I went for a hybrid of Farrow and Ball’s Dove Tale and Elephant’s Breath. It’s pretty subdued but when the sun catches it it becomes much warmer. By the end of the day much of the sun had gone, but the pics should give you a flavour.

My brother came over and fitted the spoots while I got busy with the brush. We retrieved a couple of big barrels for water butts too. The saw dust is a temporary path foundation to keep the studio floor clean. I will get some proper stone from the quarry later.

The pallets are there to store logs upon, I will get that blue one painted quickly.

Hi mcmooter

Thats a top class cabin you have built there , looks stunning !

Iam very lucky to have the space to site a cabin in my own garden in the near future , iam just looking for inspiration and ideas at the mo , which your build has provided in bucket loads.

The picture of the cabin you posted with miss matched windows also looks interesting , do you have anymore pics or info . Its an idear ive been toying with aswell , seems like a nice way around the cost of large bits of glass!

cheers chris

first class job, really inspirational for my garden plans!

p.s where did you get the barrel?

Mcmoonter, you are the coolest person on STW on the interweb in Scotland.

Toastandtea, here’s the link, the light inside is wonderful.

http://oldworldgrange.tumblr.com/

Properbikeco, a bar across the road from my mother’s shop had them for decor, there are two, I think they were about £30 each. Rioja is branded on the lid.

I started this tread in the hope it would inspire others to have a go. I had no idea where it would end up. A bit like a painting really.

Bearnecessities, I’m not so sure. 😳 I’m a random guy with a hammer and nails.

I’m a random guy with a hammer and nails.

So am I, and I’ve made a bird table.

mcmoonter is more than cool, he is a/the trendsetter.

I had the enormous privilege to see the studio up close today. Totally inspired now to attempt my own one (albeit on a more modest scale).

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Thanks for the tea and the chat, Mc. You’ve given me lots of ideas and things to think about. On the subject of DIY, I was quite pleased with my own achievement this morning…

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I know, I know…

Stuart, I know you’re just a wee fella, but you’ll never fit in there!. You fifers are a breed apart. 😀

Fifer?!!

I’m a Teuchter – Lochaber born and bred. I’m here under deep cover.

No trouble Stuartie, here is the finished log stacking. It needed a lot more than I thought. 4.5 cubic metres 😯

Hang on, log pile and shed in one? Tat’s the most double-Singletrack thing I have seen this week!

Please tell me you have a fixie singlespeed in there as well!

Superb thread and build, top work.

Looks fantastic!

Found this https://www.facebook.com/cabinporn

I’d love a go at doing one of these but don’t have the land to do it. Doing work for Belladrum festival this year again though so may have to try and convince him he needs another shack nestled in the trees somewhere 🙂

Like this ideally

Cabin porn is lethal, it’s just too inspiring.

It was a perfect spring day here. I made a start on the path. I had been reversing the Land Rover and trailer in through the gap turning it into a quagmire. Rain gathered in the ruts. I’ve been trampling mud into the new floor. Something had to be done before I gave it one last clean before staining and varnishing it.

A couple of hours had all the digging done, I nipped down to the quarry for some 20mm chips. I got a frequent pot hole filler discount. The chips are about four inches deep in places, that should help the drainage too.

We transplanted some snowdrops on the spoil. The shed is starting to mellow into its surroundings a little more now.

You’re never going to be able to repaint that blue pallet, though.

God I wish I had some land. And DIY ability. 🙁

Great seeing it in its surroundings.

Great seeing it in its surroundings.

I could hardly take a picture in that direction before, it was a shambles. The Land Rover would sink in up to the diffs.

There was about a foot of loamy leaf mould then a rock hard layer. Water couldn’t permeate so it pooled into a swamp.

I like this particular shot…

Hammer Horrortastic!

TBH, though, Bedmaker’s linked-to rickety cabin is more my cup of tea.

add a couple of palm trees and a pina colada and it could be a beach bar.

Is their insulation under the roof?

Love the hut. Great job, but…

So, I went for a hybrid of Farrow and Ball’s Dove Tale and Elephant’s Breath

you mean light grey don’t you? Bloody arty-farty types 😛

Turns out this is a thread about sheds. 🙄 I was expecting:

Farrow and Ball should be renamed Cannon & Ball, their colour charts are an exercise in pomposity and their prices a joke.

There is no insulation in the roof space other than a condensation trapping membrane. Really, it doesn’t need it. The stove is so efficient when it’s cold that the space is like an oven. On sunny days it’s like a greenhouse.

The floorboards are shrinking in the heat.

Apologies for the misleading thread title. I much prefer your interpretation to.

I painted a second coat of stain on the floor this afternoon, I will put a couple of coats of gloss varnish on top. I might need to rethink the under bench storage. I’m liking the Spartan look.

Ah o.k (face palm) I didn’t realise that you had painted the outside, still though that was undercoat, apologies.
Like it very much indeed.

Very nice. Liking the stark white against the timber

Ah o.k (face palm) I didn’t realise that you had painted the outside, still though that was undercoat, apologies.
Like it very much indeed.

It’s subtle but it changes it’s character a lot in changing light.

I gave the floor a quick sand and got the first coat of varnish on. One more to go. The end is in sight.

absolutely fantastic build – keep the pics coming, even a virtual walkround video would go down well !!!

I’ve just got some soffits to sort and I will have a bash at a walk around vid.