My name is Ben.

This is me working on my current project: our backyard "Modern Studio" type thing.  

Welcome to my blog. I'll try to document as thoroughly as possible some of the chaos that is about to ensue over the coming weeks as we build a 'modern shed' in our backyard.  

I'm sure it will be interesting, and hopefully educational.  In fact the reason I decided to blog is because it was so hard to track down good information during this process of planning our studio  that I thought maybe I could share some of my learnings here and possibly help others ... I've always wanted to say this:

"If I save just one person ... It will be worth it."  

Well I doubt I will save anyone with my antics, but hopefully I might reduce the severity of a headache or two.

The birth of a mid century modern studio project.

We have undertaken a little project for the summer.  Here is how it happened:
 

We were checking out the backyard in our new house and Chet said something like "wouldn't it be awesome to build a playhouse back here in the corner of the yard for the kids?"

Pause.

During this period of silence, this is what I am guessing Chet saw in his mind:

And this is what I saw in mine:

... And that is how the idea was born. 

So now we are underway building what we have come to call our "mid-century modern / artist space / yoga meditation room / man-cave studio space" type thing. 

Oh ya, and kid's play house.

Stay tuned .... aren't you curious to see how things turn out? So are we.

Preparing the site. Goodbye, trees.

Before

After