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I plan on spamming the DIY thread massively with this project but it might also be useful to have a dumping ground for my thoughts and ideas.
so we complete on our new house next week and we picked this place because it was almost a BOGOFF offer because it comes with a massive summer house at the end of the garden.
I'm yet to get in and measure but it's roughly 8 x 4.5m with an extra 2.5m x 2m alcove at one corner.
The house itself is plenty spacious but I have a ton of hobbies that take up a lot of space and my GF and I both work from home now so we need 2 home offices as I need silence to work and she is on calls all day.
so the plan is to take this summerhouse and split it into 4 rooms, a garden office, a board game/hobby room, a workshop and a yoga studio style gym.
We have some equity set aside from our previous sale to finance the work but to avoid spending all our money on labour costs (if we could find available tradespeople that aren't booked solid anyways) I'm going to build out the studwork, fix all the electrical boxes in place, get a sparky in to wire it all up, then I'll insulate, stick the plasterboard up and depending on how brave I'm feeling either do the plastering for the joins myself or get a man in, then I'll decorate and be done.
I have amassed a whole bunch of workshop tools in preparation and once I can get at it with a tape measure I'll work out how much timber I'll need I can order it and then it'll be off to the races.
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