Welcome to the Neighborhood: Tips for Meeting New Neighbors

[raebates]

There is a building out back that I use as a garage, but it was actually built as the Summer Kitchen about 1880, at least, according to the lady in charge of the local hysterical society. I have no reason to doubt her, two pegged windows remain in the builiding. There is a poorly repaired hole in the roof of that building and I'm going to steal your more romantic story of the hole in the roof. The real story isn't as romantic as a 'shiner blowing up his still - it was the guy, two owners ago, who built a home made air compressor and apparently didn't think a pressure relief valve was necessary.My neighbor claims the tank just missed his back porch when it came down.

Steal away!My husband is an amazing do-it-yourselfer. He's always telling me the idiotic things people have done to supposedly save time and money. It's when things go horribly wrong that they call him and ask his advice. I'll have to tell him the story of the hole in your shed roof.

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

The really sad thing about it is that the only structures left from when this was a working farm are the house, the Summer kitchen and the pig barn, which is now a small storage shed. (It's juuuuuussssssst big enough to house a Model A or a Triumph TR-3 and a few lawn tractor accessories.)The pig barn and Summer kitchen will have to be torn down so I can build a garage big enough to play cars in. The Summer kitchen is an excellent example of 19th Century construction, with oak 2x4's that are a by-gosh 2" by 4" and veritcal tounge-in-groove siding. The village has no romaticism for the historical nature of the building and demands that it be torn down before I can built another out building.I hate tin-horn bureaucrats.

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Steal away!

My husband is an amazing do-it-yourselfer. He's always telling me the idiotic things people have done to supposedly save time and money. It's when things go horribly wrong that they call him and ask his advice. I'll have to tell him the story of the hole in your shed roof.

[hijack] Ever been to this place?

[/hijack]

 

[chefann]

The pig barn and Summer kitchen will have to be torn down so I can build a garage big enough to play cars in. The Summer kitchen is an excellent example of 19th Century construction, with oak 2x4's that are a by-gosh 2" by 4" and veritcal tounge-in-groove siding. The village has no romaticism for the historical nature of the building and demands that it be torn down before I can built another out building.

I hate tin-horn bureaucrats.

You wanna see my garage? Of course you do!
http://www.dannann.net/eriamjh/chrometheatre/south.jpg

The brown house with the black roof is my house. There's an attached (barely) 2-car garage (also black roof) with a 4-car garage attached to that (green roof). The 4-car is the new building that we built in 2004, finished in 2005-06. If it were 6 inches longer, we would have needed a variance. DH has industrial lighting, MANY outlets (18" above the floor and at workbench height, every 3-4 feet), 3 ceiling fans, A/C, heat, phone, cable TV, internet, oven (for powdercoating parts), air compressor, sandblasting cabinet....


Jealous yet, KG?

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

It's more Freudian.I have severe Garage Envy.