The Woolshed

When we lived in Glasgow we lived in a big townhouse, so when we moved to New Zealand, to a very tiny cottage, we had an awful lot of furniture and stuff that we just couldn't fit into it! We didn't want to get rid of most of it, a lot of it had sentimental value so we stored it in the Woolshed that came with the property. The woolshed was completely watertight, but was home to rats, possums and about 3 gazillion spiders. It had HUGE potential, though, as it already had water and electricity.
Anyway over the last 6 years we've saved our pennies and finally had what we thought would be enough to sheet it out properly and paint it. Basically make it into something lovely where Lloyd could write, and friends and family could stay
(we have no spare room in our house!)

Before we started the outside looked like this.

By the time we'd finished it looked like this! (from the leaves on the trees you can tell more than one season passed!)

During the work it looked like this!

  and this was after we'd cleared it all out!

The holes in the floor are the chutes that the sheep would go down after they'd been shorn.  The floor in the sheep shearing area was made up of open slats. We couldn't afford to lay real floorboards here, so we covered this area in marine ply. It worked amazingly well.


A bit more cleared, and the big sliding door going in.

Insulation

It looks like an inside out tudor mansion!

Front coming off

Painting done

 

Bed made out of the old shearing gates

 The desk was also made out of the old shearing shed doors! Lloyd really wanted to recycle as much of the wood as possible. I think it worked amazingly. We also recycled a lot of the old doors - one went on my potting shed. We kept all the original wood in the ceiling - adding a bit more.

We had Lloyd's birthday party there to christen it - we cleared the furniture so there was space for a  large dance floor, with a chill out area to the side!

And finally! After 6 years of storage ( in a rat/possum infested woolshed) our furniture and paintings have a proper home. Lloyd has managed to unpack all his precious books and vinyl - he's even set up his old record player! We did have to re-cover the sofas as they had got very damp and somewhat covered in rat poop! But they were rescued. Oh and the huge tv? Free with flybys! Save those points people, you can get fabby 'presents'!

We didn't buy a single thing to furnish it with as we had everything already.
We think it's amazing!
And just goes to show good things come to those who wait...6 years in this case!