Sunday, January 10, 2010

Projects : Inside and Outdoors

I am currently moving my study to a sunny spot in our home. It is actually in part of our home that is a great room, bedroom, and library/balcony. The great room has large palladium style windows that face in a southern direction. It is the room where our computers reside and home theater is planned. At any rate, it is a good model for an outdoor structure, and it is "solar."

The plans I chose for my first modern outdoor structure came from a book entitled Sheds & Garages that I purchased at a local bookstore. The garden shed on page 170 appealed to me, and I sent away for the plans. I am currently in the process of studying the plans and hope to customize them. I developed a program for my TI-73 to draw floorplans for small structures and located software online to do this on my netbook. An indoor project of high priority is to convert my library to electronic media by purchasing e-books and operate the e-reader(s) with solar energy.

My goal is not only to design solar systems for the inside of my garden shed but also to customize the outside with modern technology. I have now located an online source that has a very similar plan in their outdoor projects section as well as many other interesting designs.

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