Love Shack, Baby!
I have agonized over apartments, I have thought about townhomes, I have peeped pimp pads in and around the Austin area. I have even considered condos. I have decided where I am to live.
In the Loooooooove Shack.
That is, I have decided to build a bedroom. Lay out a living room. Demolish and restore a darkroom where now stands a shack, behind a house, in Hyde Park - Austin TX. It's in hellaciously crappy shape right now. The floors of the living room is dirt. The floor of the darkroom is rotted-out wood, particleboard, and linoleum. The floor of what will be my bedroom is currently a chicken coop. It is pebbles now, and underneath the pebbles is a slab of concrete. When I look at it, I do not see a chicken coop. When I look at it I see my soon-to-be bedroom.
Phase I: Demolition
First I will tear up the rotted wood, particleboard, and linoleum of the darkroom, shovel and level the living room, collect the pebbles in the bedroom, and rend the mouse-chewed and water-damaged insulation from the walls.
Phase II: Ceilings
After the debris of twenty years of neglect is removed, I will waterproof and insulate the ceilings with a heavy plastic tarp and board insulation.
Phase III: Floors
This phase should be the biggest bitch of them all. I will lay and level the cinderblock on the dirt floors. Upon the cinderblock I will construct the frame of the floor out of 2x6s, and lay 3/4" wood on top of them. The darkroom will have black linoleum over the top of that in case of spills.
Phase IV: Walls
Since the shed is in severe disrepair I will first have to critter-proof it with scrap wood. Then comes the laying of the insulation, sealing it up all air-tight with tape, and covering all of that ugliness with some thin wood.
Phase V: Pimpification
This will be my favorite phase of all. This is when I get to paint the walls and adorn my new home with light fixtures, shelves, and assorted tricked-out-ed-ness.
I will build it, then I will live in it.
And it will be glorious.
Evan
In the Loooooooove Shack.
That is, I have decided to build a bedroom. Lay out a living room. Demolish and restore a darkroom where now stands a shack, behind a house, in Hyde Park - Austin TX. It's in hellaciously crappy shape right now. The floors of the living room is dirt. The floor of the darkroom is rotted-out wood, particleboard, and linoleum. The floor of what will be my bedroom is currently a chicken coop. It is pebbles now, and underneath the pebbles is a slab of concrete. When I look at it, I do not see a chicken coop. When I look at it I see my soon-to-be bedroom.
Phase I: Demolition
First I will tear up the rotted wood, particleboard, and linoleum of the darkroom, shovel and level the living room, collect the pebbles in the bedroom, and rend the mouse-chewed and water-damaged insulation from the walls.
Phase II: Ceilings
After the debris of twenty years of neglect is removed, I will waterproof and insulate the ceilings with a heavy plastic tarp and board insulation.
Phase III: Floors
This phase should be the biggest bitch of them all. I will lay and level the cinderblock on the dirt floors. Upon the cinderblock I will construct the frame of the floor out of 2x6s, and lay 3/4" wood on top of them. The darkroom will have black linoleum over the top of that in case of spills.
Phase IV: Walls
Since the shed is in severe disrepair I will first have to critter-proof it with scrap wood. Then comes the laying of the insulation, sealing it up all air-tight with tape, and covering all of that ugliness with some thin wood.
Phase V: Pimpification
This will be my favorite phase of all. This is when I get to paint the walls and adorn my new home with light fixtures, shelves, and assorted tricked-out-ed-ness.
I will build it, then I will live in it.
And it will be glorious.
Evan