Tom, your numbers have been helpful in showing me that a well-insulated and well-designed sun shed can make good use of stored water to affect the minimum temperatures at night. Although my problems fall more in the area of cooling on sunny days than heating on cold nights, I'm happy to get a better understanding of how this can work, from this thread and from your earlier ones. Other folks here have a lot more greenhouse experience than I do, but I think it's pretty impressive to have outside night temps of 12°F and still maintain an interior temp of above freezing, with no added heat. With your structure and stored water system, if you did want to add heat to keep less hardy plants in there, this would surely reduce your heating costs. Thanks for taking the time to document your findings, and post them here! As a newbie, I find it very helpful. Sheri

My drawers, well with spanx..oh wait not those drawers... Honestly, nothing :) I'm in the naked drawers and shelves camp, though my mother often comes along and puts anything she can find down as a liner when I'm not watching (paper towels, placemats...I'm hiding the bathmats...) I love no liner :) Nothing yucky to move, no wrinkles, no crinkles :) Now my cats on the other hand...well they're obviously more refined than those above and wouldn't shed a hair on my cabinets...they prefer being decorating accessories in the main parlor: And they're no lazy susans (pun intended) When they line a sink...they LINE the sink:

OMG that's what we got too! I'm really glad to hear that you had a good experience. I was a little worried going through Home Depot, but they were offering such a great deal, it was just too hard to pass up. Tuff Shed has a local warehouse center located by one of my clients, so I did some hard comparisons between the warehouse's retail product and the one they offer through Home Depot. The warehouse told me that the Tuff Sheds sold at Home Depot are made of the exact same materials and by the same crew as the regular warehouse sheds. The warehouse sheds come with some slight differences like added radiant protection from the sun but other than that, the only real difference is that Home Depot didn't want to offer the stronger warranties that they offer on theirs, but the difference in price was almost double. Yep, thats the barn we looked at, only in the 10x12. We really loved how open it was, it literally felt larger than the ranch style in the same size. In order to get an open feel in the ranch we opted for the 12/6 pitched roof and then we got the upgraded eaves so it would match the house. At first we were going to get the loft, but I saw a ranch style online with one built in and half of it wasn't really functional because of the roof. After that, we decided to change it to two 16" shelves along the back wall instead. So I see you got several windows! I love that! it looks so nice! My husband didn't want any windows but I couldn't resist having at least one. I really wanted to add transom windows to the doors, but we were already over budget. The ramp is what really killed us, but we had to have it for the riding mower. So did you paint or did they? And where is your metal foundation? I just know we will end up having to add some of the pavers under ours, the ground isn't too wonky, but it's still is off a tad. I figure we can build up the landscape around it afterwards. The guy told us to put pea gravel and limestone under it and critters will avoid it like the plague so we're doing that this weekend. Wow, you sure have a nice spot, very pretty, your house looks so majestic sitting there. I think we would have set ours back on our lot some too if we weren't storing yard and snow stuff in it. Way in the back by the property line we have another old shed, but its in terrible shape and wasn't worth restoring. It's mini barn we plan on tearing down this summer. I'm so tickled you had pictures! And thanks so much for posting them! That sounds like so much fun with the boats. When we lived in Louisiana, we lived on the river and boated all the time. Our neighbor even had a cool houseboat. Michigan is the state of lakes, they are everywhere so boating is a popular pass time for a lot of folks here.

Many of my jars were previously owned by someone living out in the CA desert who stored them outside the house - garage? shed? While I wouldn't want my lids out in the hot, the glass jars do just fine. Don't worry too much about them getting grubby because they just will. That's what dishwashers are for.