As some of you know, every bloke needs to have a shed, somewhere to retire to of an evening and tinker with this'n'that. I, like every bloke, have a shed.... however the normal 6'x8' clapper-board shed at the foot of the garden is not really going to cut the mustard when ones tinkering & contemplation is in the arena of motorsport. No, my shed is 2,000 square feet of barn (shared with a classic-car restorer & a man slowly converting a 101 into a camper-van.).... with about a third again occupied by farm machinery & other stuff.
For the past three years, the doors at the west end of the barn (the wider end, and the end with the pit) has been blocked off and we have used the doors at the east end - which has lead to a long narrow workshop, with cars stored either side of the pit.
The farm want to change things around: they want to take over the eastern door and 450 square feet of the floor-space I'm currently using, so I'm taking over 450 square feet of space currently occupied by farm machinery & stuff. As you can imagine, the juggling of things is not easy (given that about the only thing that can be left outside the shed whilst the shuffle happens is my caravan!)
Still, I reckon that we will end up with a better (read "wider") working area, and the space for storing long-term projects (not dead cars, thank you very much) will now be well away from any space we want to work in.
There is some debate, at the moment, as to whether the wee alcove space we have acquired should become a workshop, or have a couple of cars stuffed into it.... but I think "workshop" makes more sense in the longer run.
Still - the shuffle keeps me out the pub :)
