A couple months ago, I finished building my home office in the shell of a barn. It started as a old horse barn with a dirt floor and no ceiling and over the course of a few months, turned into my new creative space (with a small recording studio) where I now spend most of my time. Here are some shots of the final product. (Scroll down if you want to see some progress shots of how it all came together.)
A Few Things to Note...
Before
"The Barn" as it has been so originally named used to be a horse barn in the 70's, but has been nothing more than a storage unit for yard tools and a place for junk since then. (First pic is now the office, second pic is now the recording room.)
And then my dad helped loosen the tightly packed soil so we could level for the floor.
Construction
Here's all I came up with in terms of plans. I'm thankful that our handyman was willing to run with just this.
Got a large delivery of "real life lego pieces" from Lowe's and proceeded to carry it 100 yards from the street and down 60 steps:
Once the junk and rat poison were out, we were ready to frame the floor (handyman Brian on the left).
Now that we had a floor, it was time to frame in the ceiling.
Among the things being wired up were:
Oh, and we had to install a subpanel for power, so we got to run lots more wire underground to get to the barn. In the pic below, you'll notice my ingenious solution of getting all the wires we needed to automatically feed to us as we pulled them underground. (That's our handyman you see in the later pics.)
The Finishing Touches
Naturally, the most fun of the whole project was wiring it up.
Post-Construction Uses
The Barn has even been turned into a full-on video production studio!
The Barn has really become my home away from home (by about 30 yards) and I've been able to focus in this creation like nowhere before. It was well worth the high price and the hard work that went into it.
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