Shed Building Plans

My kitchen has no outside walls. That means it has no windows directly to the outdoors. UGH.

I love light, I love sunshine streaming through windows and lighting up my house. This was not the case in my kitchen. Last year I renovated the space and added a pass through window in one of the walls.  Now the sun can reach the kitchen - hooray!!  But it is still not a terribly well-lit space.

Cue my desire to open the wall between the living and dining rooms - the dining room is the brightest room in the house.  That, however, will be a big job because the wall is a supporting wall (at least I'm treating it that way, even if the building inspector didn't think it was).  I decided to tackle the opening from the living room into the kitchen instead since I know for sure that wall isn't supporting.

One of these things is not like the others...  Welcome to the odd man out room in my house.  It's where all the furniture that doesn't work in the rest of my house comes to live.  It's where the style I used to have still remains.   And now what to call this room.  It's a  den/office/studio/workspace.  I searched online for the definition of the word "den" and this is what Wikipedia had to say: "A den is a comfortable, usually secluded room in a house. In the United States, the type of rooms described by the term den varies considerably by region. It is used to describe many different kinds of bonus rooms, including studies, family rooms, home offices, libraries, home cinemas, or even spare bedrooms."

I love the word library, but I don't really think of this space as a library - there are no books here.  It isn't really a studio, it's more of an all-purpose space.  Study! What a good name for the space, it's a little bit of everything. Here I am surrounded by my art and other things that I love.  Here I am tucked away from the rest of the house and happy in my solitude.  Here my creativity is unleashed... So, here is the evolution of my Study.

Did you see my updated home office post a couple of weeks back?  Well I just realized that Staples Canada is having a contest where they will give up to $1000 toward creating your dream office space.  I am so IN!!!  It's the MakeMoreMakeover Contest and it's open to all Canadians!!

So far my office - or study as I am now calling it - looks like this: