'I could listen to music at midnight and no-one would have any idea, friends could come round and not have to be too quiet – it was great. It was bliss.'
A family has shared their unusual solution to creating more space at their home - installing two "sheds" in the back garden as living space for their two eldest children.
Several years later, the property - complete with the sheds - is now on the market. A house tour video shared to social media by Megan has racked up over a million views. The "sheds" were thousands of pounds' worth of weather-resistant log cabins, rather than just standard garden structures, and came with double-glazing and a locking front door from a company called Dunster House. As a carpenter, 43-year-old dad Ross was able to tackle building the foundations, construction and installation of underground electricity.
"But at that time the Beast from the East was just starting and they were carrying their duvets out into the snow. I said: 'You’re not going to stay out there tonight are you?' and they were like: ‘Yeah we are’ – they could not wait. The morning after their first night out there I had to shovel them out of the snow so they could open their front doors."
"I’d sometime hear the foxes and the cats on the roof – I’d hear that quite a bit – and when I had friends stay over they’d hear the cats and they’d be like: 'Oh my God – what’s that noise?' and I'd laugh and say: 'It’s just a cat.' The most memorable time was once there were two cats fighting on top of the shed and they fell down the side but it was in the middle of the night and I woke up to cats screaming and heard them go thud, thud, thud down the side of the wall.
The family felt safe and happy living in their community, meaning they felt comfortable leaving the back door of the house open for the girls to come and go. Ross said not once did they have an issue with anyone trying to enter the property. With garden structures becoming more popular since the pandemic as a cost-effective way of adding space to a home, the couple have a few words of advice for anybody considering one.
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