Sheds /smoking shack

[Pantomimehorse]

Well I rather fancy myself a smoking shack like Robustos, I have the patch of land down the end of the garden but Im rubbish at buidling such things, does anyone know if there are places I can buy these things and they will put em up for me as well?

[Ramon]

You mean something like this http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.205-9633.aspx or this http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.200-3012.aspx

[Pantomimehorse]

haha I could move in to one of those beasts!

finding places selling the sheds is no prob, finding a place that will put the shack up for me is a bit more tricky... oh and my budgets a bit less than seven grant

[cohibaIV]

Shit....I want one....

[Deano]

lol the last one is like a bloody mansion. I could see Bryan being very happy there.

[Robusto]

I'm not sure if I would want a Tesco Wendy House - lol - but I did decide to get my smoking hideaway built on a vegetable patch at the bottom of the garden. A patch I tended half-heartedly until I decided to get spinach and courgettes delivered from a nearby organic farm.

Mine cost a fair deal less than ?9k and was built to spec by a builder mate who was converting my attic into a bedroom and bathroom for my missus and me. It's rock solid with a concrete base, so it's it's much better than a tool shed.

We needed more space so looked at other houses. I live in a very quiet spot not far from the sea and didn't want to have more rooms on a busy main street with trucks and buses going past the front room.

The shack is primarily for my wife and older son who are into art and painting etc in a major way.

It doubles as a comfortable workspace for me, as well as somewhere to escape to that's quiet to read or smoke cigars in complete peace. Radio 4 is usually speaking to me.

I can also set up one of my electric pianos and rehearse down there with, say, a guitarist and a singer. Indeed we have band sub-rehearsals down there. My neighbours tell me they love to hear us playing - and that they enjoy getting sidestream cigar smoke as it smells so good!

I've posted some of these snaps before. This shack and my attic are the best things we have done to our house. You can't order this one online. I got it done at mates' rates and it turned out to be bigger and better than the prefabricated ones I looked at in builders' yards in this area.

I absolutely love my little private place.












I'm surrounded by teen movement and teen trauma n tears and teen squabbling all day long at work. I try and educate across quite a lot of shite.

When I play with the band sometimes, it's so bloody loud that I can't hear properly for a day or more. (Guitars... Bass guitars... Grr...).

A man needs to gather his wits and fucked eardrums in solitude and calm. And when a man is partial to good cigars, he also needs a private space to enjoy them in.

Sorted!

One other option that seems hugely attractive is to live on one's own. I guess I went down a different life-path, possums. I can see solo living has many advantages! You don't need to build a hideaway shed, for one!

My neighbours told me that the woman who lived here before us used to get her tits out and point them at the sun to bronze them up on this very patch.

I've been thinking about that quite a bit recently.

Since I've got this week off from work, if the sun keeps shining I might get mine out and have a crack at that. Maybe over a Juan Lopez...

[cohibaIV]

I love you.....

[Robusto]

Get yours out as well then, babe.

[Boss Hog]

That looks like the perfect gentlemans hideway, however spare a thought for this.
A friend of mine has this at the bottom of his already sizeable garden.
His own pub! I kid you not. been there some years now, built from scratch and contains the following;
Beers on draught.
every optic/ spirit imaginable
Traditional pub juke box fully loaded with original 60's 45's.
Wine cooler.
Sky sports TV. plus optional pull down screen & projector.
A toilet.
Comfy leather sofa's
full size fridge cabinet for bottled beer. (can be seen in the picture behind the white door.)
off to the left side a undercover brick built BBQ, spit roast pit and smoker.

Pretty much everything you'd ever need.
I've enjoyed many a happy night there, unfortunatly it wouldnt fit in my garden unless I moved all the swings, slides, sandpit, trampoline, bouncy castle & wooden kids playhouse!

[Pantomimehorse]

Bry I dream my shack will be as cool as yours, Boss well thats something else!

a few years ago I had a house share with two other blokes and we built our own bar with working fosters tap, chiller the lot, I wish I had took pics, it was bliss.... the place was right next door to my then office so I had a nice side line selling ice cold pints in the summer for a quid a go to the lads at work, cost us about 40p a pint and paid for our beer, I wasnt into the cigars much then

[Robusto]

How cool to have a pub like that, Mark!
Is your mate Englebert Humperdinck? He's got a pub in the garden in his pad in Leicester, apparently. I think I saw it in OK.

Chris - Brilliant to have a beer run on for mates!

Mark - This patch had my boys' swings and games on it before the veg patch. They're nearly leaving home for good now so the space is mine. My wife sits in and tolerates cigars at best. She forbids me in the house on most occasions - but she's back at work this week and I'm off. So I will win!

I got my sofa in there last month so I can withdraw as little or as much as I wish.

Without being too OTT, I work in a pretty judgemental and anti-smoking domain. That's just the adults!

Discussing the pleasures of smoking cigars on this site has made me much more self-assured about enjoying cigars publicly and being seen by friends and acquaintances to enjoy them.

A few years ago I would have smoked in that shack in secret FULL STOP and would never have emerged to make widescreen stogie Cowboy video epics.

Cigars are like having an affair for an hour or two without the fall-out of being caught red-handed and arguing over who gets the bread maker!

[nicwing]

Wow Boss, the pubshed is just too much pleasure, no smoking ban I will warrant, I am seriously thinking of developing this idea into a countrywide franchise of home shedpubs. Could be huge.

Not too far to stumble to or from, local chums and "You can smoke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Bryan's spick and span look puts my Cybershed to shame, I need to do some late spring cleaning before I take pictures.

[Boss Hog]

Relaxing in my new Smoking Shack

Here I am relaxing in my recently acquired smoking shack which features all the mod cons such as plastic oven and hob, wind up toaster and Plastic dinner service should I wish to entertain.

[Robusto]

That is superb!

[Stevieboy]

Here I am relaxing in my recently acquired smoking shack which features all the mod cons such as plastic oven and hob, wind up toaster and Plastic dinner service should I wish to entertain.

MAGIC!!! LOL!!