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**Badgardener** @Badgardener@mountains.social · Feb 15

Badgardener @Badgardener@mountains.social

The workshop I built for my wife after the first lockdown, mainly to stop her from taking over mine(!)

I’d always been intrigued by the idea of stitching a shed and greenhouse together, so knocked this up. The idea is that the greenhouse captures solar heat in the winter to help heat the workshop - it seems to work, and the shed is very heavily insulated with polystyrene collected off the local beach over a summer and put through a garden shredder.

With a small radiator, the temperature gets up to about 22C very quickly, even with outside temperatures around zero. When they’re about 8-10C and upwards, no heating required.

Built mainly out of free stuff (greenhouse, roof tiles, much of the frame, insulation, copper ridge, windows, door).

Please ignore the oil tank. We inherited it and can’t afford to change systems.

A picture of a greenhouse attached to a shed.

The greenhouse is a standard 8 feet by 6 feet aluminium-framed model, but a purpose-built shed has been built in line with it so that the roofs line up. The roof of the shed is covered with brown slates and a copper ridge, and there is a skylight in the middle. Internally, the shed and greenhouse are separated by a duck egg blue door. The sides of the shed are wooden.

The photo is taken diagonally from one side. In the foreground is a green oil tank, and in the background the white side elevation of next door’s house.

The inside of the shed described in the first photo.

The shed is a workshop, with a workbench running transversely along the back and down one side under the skylight. Underneath, on the left, is a rack system containing pieces of coloured glass. In the middle of the bench, two clamps are attached to a block of wood. On the back wall is a window, with a red frame.

A chair is parked in the middle. Mostly, it’s a good, chaotic mess.

The inside of the shed greenhouse, taken from the greenhouse section of the entrance to the shed. It’s a wooden wall, with patchwork panels oriented vertically and in the middle, a duck egg blue door, half-glazed.

A slabbed path runs up the middle, with growing beds of soil on either side. Plastic pots and other detritus are scattered around.

#shed #greenhouse #woodworking

Richard Rollinson @richrollgardener@toot.wales

@Badgardener Congratulations on a job well done! I appreciate the care you put in to the alt-text, too!

Feb 15, 2025, 10:21 AM·

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**Badgardener** @Badgardener@mountains.social · Feb 15

Feb 15

Badgardener @Badgardener@mountains.social

@richrollgardener

Was it enough, do you think?

**Richard Rollinson** @richrollgardener · Feb 15

Feb 15

Richard Rollinson @richrollgardener

@Badgardener Excellent work! I always try to be as descriptive as I can with my alt-text. You can add so much more information that there isn't room for in the posting text.