Studio Construction

There was an existing shed that I wanted to re-use so as to prevent the Building Department from insisting on a review of the siting of the building on the property line, so I reused the roof. In this photo the only piece standing is the roof, supported on braces. The studio floor plan was extended a few feet to the right, necessitating the construction of a new hipped roof intersecting the existing roof at a right angle. After construction of the foundation, walls were then added. Essentially I built the studio from the top down instead of bottom up. It made for some amusing moments.

View from 90 degrees the other direction

What's cool here is the French windows, which I fabricated from windows salvaged from an old house in Mission Hills. The outermost windows were simply mounted into a frame above a panel; the innermost pair, however, in order to swing as full-height French doors, had to be attached to panels that matched the side panels, and in a structurally sound way so they would last. It took a few hours to do the deed, but new windows would have cost much more.