The Herdsman bought The Farmer a book for Father's Day last week.
I have a feeling The Herdsman is going to be a reader, as this was The Farmer's birthday present last month:
But since The Hredsman loves The Farmer so much he received another present...new pool cues!
Because, yes, we have a pool room/man cave.
What? This doesn't look like a pool room?
It is!
Two years ago.
But after a winter of more construction - aka Phase Two of our massive overhaul of The Jungle House - we have a new pool room, changing room, garage, and hobby room in the space that is our garage/shop outbuilding. Oh, and a new living room - though that is not in the garage (phew!).
When we originally looked at The Jungle House the garage had three shop spaces in addition to the garage bays. One of the previous owners was a cabinet maker and so the space was large. And yes, I said three shops.
The shop space above was directly behind the main garage bays and closest to the house. You'll notice the open door in the above photo; the blue siding is the house as seen through the breezeway.
We decided to turn this space into the pool room and changing room (more on that later) because The Jungle House came with this:
And while we loved the space (sans the chandelier that I think was stolen from a 1970s pizza parlor), we wanted to use it for our living room. And a living room with a pool table in the middle of it? That looks like this:
That set-up wasn't going to last too long (though in our case it did last one month shy of two years).
So we marked out the shop space...
Framed out the new walls...
Added a set of French doors to the back yard (thank you to my aunt and uncle for donating to this cause!)...
And then we stopped.
For a year. We had other things to do.
Consider that Phase One Point Five...leading up to Phase Two this winter.
And Phase Two was important as I wanted a living room before The Herdsman (previously known as Plus One) arrived. Few people women want a living room that looks like this:
But to get that dang pool table out of my living room, we had to create a place to put that pool table.
So an extra door was closed off.
Insulation and plywood were added to the framed-in wall between the new pool room and changing room.
The ceiling was dropped, lights were added.
And everything got a coat of paint.
OK, a couple coats of paint.
And then, after flooring was laid, it was moving day!
We had to go through these doors...
And voila! I have a living room! (Don't worry...the carpet was removed too...)
And the pool table has a new home!
And The Farmer has a place to play! Or build cabinets and store tools, in this case...
And hold The Herdsman, it seems...
He'll learn later you aren't supposed to sit on the table. We let it pass this one time.
