Cabins, mansheds, etc...whose got 'em?

[Swamp_Yankee]

One of the things I'm looking forward to doing on my property is putting a shed up way in the back near the pond.  I've got all the storage I need between the walk out basement and the barn/tool shed near the house-the shed by the pond will be more of a cabin-back there all you can see are the woods in all directions and a field in the distance.  I'm thinking something like this-simple skid foundation, 24" OC walls and rafters, steel roof:

 

 

I figure I'll throw a small wood cookstove in for heat, a dartboard, a bar, and some bunks inside, and quoit pits, a gas grill, and a keyhole firepit outside.  We're pretty close with a few of the families from our parish and we get together for BBQs, etc...a lot.  This will give the husbands a place to retreat to (the wives get the house  ) and it would be a nice spot to take the kids for a "campout."  They would have a blast sleeping out there overnight.  If I really get crazy with it I could wire it for 110 and fit it with a flatscreen/surround sound and power it with one of those little inverter generators.  Would be a hell of a place to watch football  Anybody got one of these on their property?  Or a small cabin on a hunting property?  If so, post some pics!

[Haskell_Hunter]

Best to do it w/o electricity and just the woodstove.  You can get one with a glass front to throw some light as well as heat.  IMHO, electricity spoils it because then it becomes just another house.  Plus, electricity attracts women like moths to a flame.  No electric and no toilet makes it man-friendly.

 

I think you'd have a blast building one.

 

https://www.tumbleweedhouses.com

 

http://freewoodworkingplan.com/index.php?cat=502

[Zipper]

Put a sign over the door saying "The He Man Women Haters Club."

[stratocaster]

One of the things I'm looking forward to doing on my property is putting a shed up way in the back near the pond.  I've got all the storage I need between the walk out basement and the barn/tool shed near the house-the shed by the pond will be more of a cabin-back there all you can see are the woods in all directions and a field in the distance.  I'm thinking something like this-simple skid foundation, 24" OC walls and rafters, steel roof:

 

 

I figure I'll throw a small wood cookstove in for heat, a dartboard, a bar, and some bunks inside, and quoit pits, a gas grill, and a keyhole firepit outside.  We're pretty close with a few of the families from our parish and we get together for BBQs, etc...a lot.  This will give the husbands a place to retreat to (the wives get the house  ) and it would be a nice spot to take the kids for a "campout."  They would have a blast sleeping out there overnight.  If I really get crazy with it I could wire it for 110 and fit it with a flatscreen/surround sound and power it with one of those little inverter generators.  Would be a hell of a place to watch football  Anybody got one of these on their property?  Or a small cabin on a hunting property?  If so, post some pics!

First, we don't have "parishes" in Joisy so this isn''t NJ.  Second,  I agree with HH,  no elec.   Approach it like Thoreau did with Walden pond and look at as a place for quiet and reflective thinking in a world that is moving ever faster.  But you could do whatever you wish because that is your right as a red blooded American male.  Enjoy it whatever you decide, I may have to get one. 

[Joeybeets]

Make sure to get the proper building permits nothing worse than building something cool and then crying when the town tells you to take it down. Happens more often than you think.

[Swamp_Yankee]

First, we don't have "parishes" in Joisy so this isn''t NJ.

 

Time for a history lesson.  You're probably thinking of Louisiana where what is basically a county is referred to as a parish.  This is because Louisiana was established by the French in the late 1600s when France was still officially Roman Catholic.  The church, as it is now, was very hierarchical and was organized into "parishes" which went hand in hand with the local administrative government.  Since most if not all of the inhabitants of Louisiana's parishes back then were Roman Catholic, your parish determined where you went to church, school, etc...  Fast forward to today and though the church no longer controls anything in terms of local government, Louisiana chose to keep with the historical term of "parish" to refer to what the rest of us would call a "county."  

 

Elsewhere in the country (and the world), Catholics (and some Protestant denominations) refer to whatever local church they attend as their "parish."  You will often hear Catholics referred to as "parishioners."  We are parishioners of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in High Bridge ( http://www.sjchb.org/ ), so yes-we have plenty of parishes in New Jersey.  

 

Make sure to get the proper building permits nothing worse than building something cool and then crying when the town tells you to take it down. Happens more often than you think.

 

It only happens if you take the "beg for forgiveness rather than ask permission" route.  I don't like having to pull permits to build something on my own land, but in this case its warranted.  

[nmc02]

 

My place in wayne cty pa

[Nanuk]

I have done exactly what you want , I built a deck and had two Amish sheds built and bolted them to together 1- 12x18 & 1 -12 x 14 single room with a back room for storage and toilet we do run a generator but gets noisey and old hat REALLY WANT ELEC !!! Jugged water and fooling around with "make shift " pumps just isn't fun after 20 years but to each their own . I have a couple pics of interior but will post exterior when I find them

Edited September 5, 2017 by Nanuk

[Lunatic]

Nice idea to get away for the wife:-) Most of us just have tree stands

[bruiserbucksoutdoors]

This is me and my pops "mancave"..... Don't have any pics of the inside on me.. Maybe I'll add them later. But this is where we used to work on my dirt bikes. Now it's for drinking beers, shooting darts, and cutting up deer. We have a wood stove in there for the winter. I have camped out in there a few times during hunting season. I am thinking of turning it into a trophy room as well. We currently have a full body bear mount in there. But all my deer mount are in my bedroom. 

[bruiserbucksoutdoors]

That is my Dad's custom camo spay paint job on the walls haha

[stratocaster]

Time for a history lesson.  You're probably thinking of Louisiana where what is basically a county is referred to as a parish.  This is because Louisiana was established by the French in the late 1600s when France was still officially Roman Catholic.  The church, as it is now, was very hierarchical and was organized into "parishes" which went hand in hand with the local administrative government.  Since most if not all of the inhabitants of Louisiana's parishes back then were Roman Catholic, your parish determined where you went to church, school, etc...  Fast forward to today and though the church no longer controls anything in terms of local government, Louisiana chose to keep with the historical term of "parish" to refer to what the rest of us would call a "county."  

 

Elsewhere in the country (and the world), Catholics (and some Protestant denominations) refer to whatever local church they attend as their "parish."  You will often hear Catholics referred to as "parishioners."  We are parishioners of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in High Bridge ( http://www.sjchb.org/ ), so yes-we have plenty of parishes in New Jersey.  

 

 

It only happens if you take the "beg for forgiveness rather than ask permission" route.  I don't like having to pull permits to build something on my own land, but in this case its warranted.  

Oh yes, I am also part of a parish but you didn't mention "religion" in your post so that was the impetus for my response.  So I beg forgiveness.