Have you ever sleep inside of shed?

[JPGhost]

Outdoorsy gay jubbers, I need help. ^^

I'm planning to buy a shed and sleep in it while renting both of my bedrooms to students in need, ..additional income.

Problem is, I have no experience with shed and worry that shed actually inhospitable to sleep over.
However, I watched a lot of home improvement tv channel and see..how someone turning his/her shed into private sanctuary/paradise.
I'm so jealous watching that.

I have quite spacious backyard for shed but what type of shed?
Currently I graced one of good shed offer from home depot:
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Keter-Fu...CeDFSSTaks3ly8qKWGOckaAmtd8P8HAQ&gclsrc=aw.ds
take a look at instructional video if you have time.
I think I'm gonna buy that shed

Not only that ^ shed is economical/cheap, the tutorial vid also not intimidating for lack of better of..handyman like me. Easy assembly, efficient.
But does shed provide enough warm and comfort to sleep inside?

Year- round temperature in my area range from 20-98 F. What additional things to add/buy/upgrade?
Tips? Thank you so much

 

[Yooper]

You can sleep anywhere, but I think the shed thing is a bad idea.

You'd certainly be violating some zoning law to start. Probably several.

Without heat, 20F would be too cold without a proper sleeping bag.

Sheds have little ventilation, and would get too hot at 98F. You'd be hitting 120 easily on a sunny day.

 

[Essex Boy]

What you want is a summer house, not a shed. Even so, abandoning your house to students of all things while you retreat to an outbuilding is a bad move. They'll run riot and smoke those funny ciggies that students like, they won't wash the dishes and they'll give your dog fleas.

Bloody hell,$997! I picked up a catalogue last week from a local firm that does some very attractive "log cabins" as they like to call them and they sell some quite swanky models for less than that. I'll find a link later. You might be better off ordering one from the UK at this rate. And they install it and do the wiring.

 

[genthree]

No , you won't like the shed.
i can only think of a thousad reasons atm.
i will list them later.
cheers.

 

[Essex Boy]

www.needextraspace.co.uk









One of these beauties could be yours if you relocate to the south Essex/north Kent area.

 

[rareboy]

Outdoorsy gay jubbers, I need help. ^^

I'm planning to buy a shed and sleep in it while renting both of my bedrooms to students in need, ..additional income.

Problem is, I have no experience with shed and worry that shed actually inhospitable to sleep over.
However, I watched a lot of home improvement tv channel and see..how someone turning his/her shed into private sanctuary/paradise.
I'm so jealous watching that.

I have quite spacious backyard for shed but what type of shed?
Currently I graced one of good shed offer from home depot:
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Keter-Fu...CeDFSSTaks3ly8qKWGOckaAmtd8P8HAQ&gclsrc=aw.ds
take a look at instructional video if you have time.
I think I'm gonna buy that shed

Not only that ^ shed is economical/cheap, the tutorial vid also not intimidating for lack of better of..handyman like me. Easy assembly, efficient.
But does shed provide enough warm and comfort to sleep inside?

Year- round temperature in my area range from 20-98 F. What additional things to add/buy/upgrade?
Tips? Thank you so much

I say go for it.

Obviously you are in over your head with the mortgage payments on the house and if there is no room or garage that you can convert to another bedroom inside the house, why shouldn't you move into an unheated utility building the size of a bathroom, with no electricity or plumbing, while students enjoy the great indoors. Isn't that what you bought a house for?

 

[peeonme]

If you are just renting out your bedrooms, why not sleep indoors on the couch?

 

[tarallucci]

If you are just renting out your bedrooms, why not sleep indoors on the couch?

Or in his car. But maybe he needs something else.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Hell yeah! I've even slept in a cardboard box.

 

[NotHardUp1]

If your plan is to rent out your home to pay the mortgage, is it safe to assume the rent pays the mortgage, or are you renting it for less than that? If so, you shouldn't be.

Either find an affordable apartment to rent while renting out your home, or just sleep on your sofa. Abandoning your home is a bad idea.

Don't start doing extreme things. Figure out a better plan. Use that good brain of yours.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

However, I watched a lot of home improvement

I don't think so, Tim.

 

[nycguydowntown]

does it come with a big bear to keep you warm?---otherwise you will need a space heater. Sure it will be very cold and damp.

 

[eastofeden]

Have you ever seen the tiny houses show they have on after Project Runway? It is interesting....maybe partly converting it might work.

 

[sixthson]

You aren't thinking this through, JP. Are you planning to have this wired with electricity, internet and cable?
Sheds are for garden implements and lawnmowers. You might be a tool, but not the kind that goes in a shed.
Why not start out by renting just one room and see how that goes?
Are you having financial difficulties that are forcing you to think this way? Are you house rich but cash poor?

You are a creative, intelligent guy who is not going to be happy in a shed, even if you use it only for sleeping.

 

[zoltanspawn]

I'm reluctantly going to agree with the majority. For a short period of time, a garden shed would be adventurous and interesting. But over the long run, you'd start missing the basics. Tiny homes, yurts and shipping containers can be fitted for elegant habitation. This Home Depot sort of shed cannot.

What about renting out just one of your rooms?

Or (as we did when I was in college) partitioning off the living room with heavy draperies?

 

[rareboy]

I don't know.

I think you are all being too cautious.

Why wouldn't a homeowner want to live like someone in the third world by having their very own shed away from home right in their back yard.

We only learn by experience.

I still say, GO FOR IT!

You get to build the shed and to decorate it it to reflect your adventurous outdoors spirit. Run an industrial extension cord out of the house, the internet is wireless anyway...and on the few nights when the temp goes down below zero, you only need an extra down duvet and a little space heater that is set up so that you don't burst into flames.

You say that you feel 16 years old? This is the chance to live out that teenage boy's fantasy. To build and have your very own fort in the back yard. If you are clever, you can also store the lawn and garden stuff in there as well.

And of course....what a swell place to bring an overnight guest back to. Put that out there and guys will be falling over themselves wanting to spend the night chez vous.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

put alls folkees shed
_yea_
! alls drones nows anyway! !

tinku

no frgat garlic wound door

 

[JohnnyAnger]

I can speak with some experience as I slept in the shed a few times at uni if we had multiple guests down. Even in the summer, in a good sleeping bag its fucking cold - you're better off sleeping in a tent as they insulate the heat better than these. The joke of staying in the shed gets old pretty fast, and I typically ended up sleeping in the bath.

I have stayed in nice large sheds/summer houses over the years though - these were all properly set up though for people staying in, so electricity, heating etc. If you go for that you can make do.


Saying all this though, I wouldn't live with my landlord - especially if they lived in the shed at the bottom of the garden!!

 

[Vitamin]

 

[Kulindahr]

You can sleep anywhere, but I think the shed thing is a bad idea.

You'd certainly be violating some zoning law to start. Probably several.

Without heat, 20F would be too cold without a proper sleeping bag.

Sheds have little ventilation, and would get too hot at 98F. You'd be hitting 120 easily on a sunny day.

Ventilation is easy to take care of; the cold, not so easy.

I slept in a shed for four days once. It had a loft, and the walls from the loft floor up were insulated, as was the roof. The nights were cold, so I closed the vents and slept in the loft, which wasn't too bad since heat rises.

The real problem with a shed is they tend to have little gaps where bugs get in and out, so you have to think about repelling uninvited bed guests.