Design change to allow for a mezzanine!

Week Fourteen.

 

Dan has come up with a brilliant idea which gives us shed storage but also a mezzanine level!  His idea basically involves dropping the level of the beam which goes from front to back over the wall dividing the shed 1.5m section from the utility/kids area which takes up the remaining 3.5m. The beam instead of being high up will be dropped to approx 4.5 feet and the partitioning wall instead of being floor to ceiling will not be removed. We can then store the shed stuff under the new floor which will be created from the 4.5' beam. The building  will feel much more spacious as you will be able to see the roof structure along the full 5m length.  The kids can use this higher mezzanine level as their play room, leaving the lower part of the building as my utility room! We therefore can have totally different areas and we will still have plenty of storage space underneath the mezzanine. Dan has suggested we use trolleys to access stuff, but we have given the design a lot of thought and plan to have a combination of shelving at the back for the heavier and rarely used items plus a large cupboard and three or four trolleys cleverly hidden behind a slim bookcase created from MDF.  I can picture it exactly! I want to use glass panels as the balustrade and I will have a go at making a ladder with my Dad - a great project for us over the winter!