Jim's New Pad

Welcome to my new shop. Its located in Colebrook, N.H. If you don't know where that is, I dare you to look it up on a map!

The front view. This is the outside of what will be my apartment/house. The door on the right opens into the large central room (about 20x40 feet) and the door on the left opens into what used to be an office. I think I will be using it as a bedroom until I get around to more serious renovations.	This is the small overhead door, which would be on the right side in the last picture. Its at the junction where the two sections of the building meet. This door leads to a small (aprox. 14x20 feet) work room.	This is the main door to the shop. Its on the opposite end of the building as the two front doors. That wall is 40 feet wide. The overall shop space is 40 by 54 feet. Some of it is divided up into smaller rooms, which will be handy to use as storage rooms, a shipping room, etc.
Before we go inside, I want to let you see the view from my driveway. Thats looking down the driveway, and across the road over the neighbor's driveway.	This is what I will be seeing out my office window.	If I make enough money, I plan to build a house on the hill above my shop. This is what I would see out my livingroom window. You can see the roof of my shop in the background.

This room is what is becoming my livingroom. That door in the background is the front door. This is how it looked before I bought it.

This is what you would see standing in the livingroom with your back to the front door. Ugly, isn't it?

This is the same room as it was left to me. At least it looks a little less like a shop. Its still a long way from being a livingroom though. Actually, my plans are to use the far left and rear walls as the kitchen.

This is one of the livingroom walls. Notice the vents, conduits, and air line pipe...not to mention the crappy drywall.

This is the same wall after some repairs were made. That one last piece of conduit is unhooked and ready to come down as soon as I climb in the attic and unhook the wires.

Take a look at all of that crappy shelving.

This is the same wall after I removed the shelving, repaired the drywall, and painted it. O.K., enough of the livingroom.

If you walk through the doorway in the kitchen area into the shop, it brings you into this hall. The door on the left goes into my office, the door to the back right (that you can't see) goes into the small work room (with the small overhead door), and the double doors straight ahead go into my shop.

And this is it! Please excuse the mess, this IS a construction zone right now! This is what my shop looks like right now. The doorway to the right goes into one of the store rooms. The main shop room is about 25x34 feet. If I ever need more room to work, I can eliminate a storage room and tear down a couple walls. For now I need the storage space more than the work space.

Here is the other end of the main shop as it looked before I moved into it. Right now I have my camper in one corner, and I still have room for 4 XJs in the shop.

This is the small (14x20) work room. It looks bigger now that its empty.

This is a worker from the power company helping to change a cracked insulator on one of my electric lines. (I have 3 phase power coming into my shop). The insulator cracked Friday, causing the line to short to the guide wire...which resulted in a small grass fire. Notice the charred grass around the wire. That pole is only 40 feet from my shop...I could have been out of business before I started!

This is Dixville Notch, a 15-20 minute drive from my shop. I'm driving up the east side of the notch.

I'm nearing the top of the notch.

This is the west side of the notch, heading toward my shop. Those buildings in the background are the Balsams Hotel.