Not your average garden shed.

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  1. Doghouse Riley

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    Thats different. I wonder where he stores his garden tools?
     
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    That video isjust the thing to induce sea sickness,looks like a music room not a garden shed.
     
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    ?

    The video was made primarily for members of a couple of jukebox owners forums, they like to see the detail.

    And as someone else enquired. We have got a fairly substantial shed built on to the back of the garage. All my tools are kept in there and there's a handy bench for any projects.
    We actually still call it "The rabbit shed" as I originally built it to house our youngest child's collection of rabbits an guineapigs, who lived in two banks of cages in there.
    She left home years ago and now is a mother of three.
     
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    As The Title said.. "Not Your Average Garden Shed" I wasn't expecting your normal Wooden Box!!! As Ive Already said, I love it and im jealous as he*l Doghouse. So can you build me one please lol..
     
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    Actually if you follow the "instructions" in this link you could build one yourself.
    I managed it and all I was was a "glorified grocer."

    I did it when on a fortnight's holiday. I got six weeks each year plus bank holidays, so I always reserved two weeks for "projects."


    http://www.gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/showthread.php/doghouses-garden-23916.html
     
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    Projects, must be in the genes.

    Fifteen years ago, my youngest son and I renovated the first house he bought, a re-wire, removal of a chimney breast installing a new kitchen and splitting a large rear bedroom into a smaller bedroom and a bathroom. He went on to do a couple of other houses on his own.
    Nothing unusual in that, but it gave him the confidence to tackle a more adventurous project.






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    This sorry looking thing is a 1967 L/H drive â??thirteen windowâ? VW Campervan.

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    It spent the whole of its life in Utah so although it had all sorts of bumps and bruises there was no rust.




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    She's been re-born as "Ruby."



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    Over a period of a year he completely renovated it and it now looks like this. He did much of the work himself and his partner made the curtains.
    It is now immaculate and indistinguishable from the original spec, with new brakes, steering, engine and gearbox. New interior cards and woodwork, the only concession to 2009, is the original seats and new mattress are filled with â??memory foamâ?and are finished in cream leather. Oh, there is a TV and a posh Pioneer radio/CD with â??boom tishâ? speakers.
    He and his partner and her young teenage daughter are into camping, they sleep in the tent and the kid has the van. Itâ??s a case of all this summer, checking the weather forecast on Friday nights and setting off straight off to the nearest warm and sunny place for the week-end.
    Though the've just driven it back from a two-week holiday in northern France.
    Iâ??ve been out in it with him several times, itâ??s like â??travelling with royalty.â? Itâ??s a pedestrian head-turner and drivers slow down on the motorway to get a good look.




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    It's funny but "you never see him and Bruce Willis, at the same time."

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