She-shed help needed again, please! drafting for dummies

10 years ago

Sigrid, Shades, lavender, Debbie, caroline: I really appreciated your opinions that helped me with porch decision. I will keep it and make do with 13.5 x 15.5 space. Does anyone know of an easy, easy site that allows you to do a mock-up of your space in order to decide where shelves or cabinets should go? Tech dummy here. I did a very crude drawing w/ measurements. I decided to remove toilet and sink in tiny bathroom to make a closet w/ shelves for storage. I will use this to store decorations and to make wreaths. The back wall has the cabinets & shelves that we just need to move. Thanks.

Thanks, Brigitte

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caroline94535

10 years ago

last modified: 10 years ago

Oh my, Brigitte, I'm so thrilled you're keeping the cozy, wonderful, relaxing front porch. You're going to love it. Trust me!

Now, about that powder room...

Do you really want to give up a bathroom, right there in your little creative paradise, for the small amount of storage it would give you? What if you want to wash your face and hands? What if nature calls? What if you want to brush your teeth and comb your hair before tackling another four hours of crafting?

I think you have the perfect relaxing, crafting, creating, thinking, reading, tea-drinking, letter writing, movie watching, visiting, music listening, girly-girls' meeting house ever. Just as the porch is vital to making it a personal get-away space and not just a storage shed in the back yard...keeping the bathroom will add the next level of civilized comfort.

You could go all out and glam it up to your heart's content, and it's so small I'm sure you could do it even on a tight budget. Big medicine cabinet/mirror, sparkly light. Beautiful paint or wall-paper. Copy any era you wish. Paint the ceiling a wild color and add a tiny crystal chandelier!

My crafting room is 12x12, give or take and inch or two. I finally come to the conclusion my crafting/sewing/quilting "Ladies Parlour" is only so big. I don't want to be squeezed in. I want room for my mind to create. It is not a secondary craft store. I have downsized - and am still in the process - to have room for what I work on (one project at a time for me) and still have room to sit and visit, or watch feeder birds out the window, or enjoy a DVD and a snack with a neighbor.

Of course, these are just my thoughts, and I'm sure you'll make the right decisions for you and how you want to use your room. I have two Rubbermaid totes with fabric. My personal rule: No more fabric until all this is used up. I gave away décor items I had no walls to put on. I gave away dozens of sewing patterns I'll never use - and still have more to purge. I am giving more than half of my scrapbooking supplies and papers to a friend. I'm loving the room more than more. Next on the chopping block? Vintage 1940s-1960s hats. Lovely hats. Beautiful hats. But I have no where to display them and they are simply sucking up space in the boxes.

My gardening/history/birding books? They are all staying!

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mindshift
10 years ago
There are free, online room/house planning sites. HERE IS ONE LINK TO SEVERAL.
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scone911
10 years ago
Graph paper is the easiest, by far. No tech training involved, just draw in the measurements and use paper cut outs to place furniture. Quarter inch is the usual size.
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wantoretire_did
10 years ago
Is the shed far from the house??? is that a working bathroom? I would think that keeping it would be a better move than the little extra storage you might gain. JMHO as I grow older LOL.
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writersblock (9b/10a)
10 years ago
Just keep in mind that when you remove a bathroom you also remove value. That's fine if it doesn't matter to you.
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Shades_of_idaho
10 years ago
I too would keep the bath room if you can hook into the house waste system. You could just about get the same amount of storage in a cabinet added some where in the room.

I also need to use a drafting program of some sort with my whole house re-do so I am glad you brought this up. I also use plain graph paper and cut outs but some of the drafting programs let you see it in a more 3-D fashion and this helps because just because the foot print fits it does not always look good. You need to consider the heights of furniture. Going high low high low with the top line can wobble the eyes. For me anyway.

So in love with your She Shed.
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schoolhouse_gw
10 years ago
Is your bathroom connected to a septic system? I too would keep that for if in the future you changed your mind all that plumbing and work would already be there. In a new build that can cost so much money.
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