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    Build a Beach Hut for Your Garden
    Build a Beach Hut for Your Garden
    Build a Beach Hut for Your Garden
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    Build a Beach Hut for Your Garden

    By Charlie Minton

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    A beach hut in your garden!

    The brightly-painted British beach hut is as essential to the British coast as sandcastles, deckchairs, flimsy windbreaks and ice cream. In recent years the growing nostalgia for these popular little buildings has made them rocket in price.

    But if you have the space in your garden, there's is little to stop you from building one yourself. These attractive extensions to your living space can be used as a workshop, study, office, changing room (if you have a pool—and even if you don't).
    In fact, there are even commercial uses such as entry kiosk, site office, snack bar, storage, shop ... and many more possibilities. And they are so much more delightful to look at than a plain old garden shed, and are generally sturdier.

    This little book includes a plan for a typical promenade design of approx. 12 feet long and eight feet wide, with pitched roof and covered veranda. The design uses strong methods of construction and can be tailored to suit your own sizes.

    With cutting and materials lists, suggested tools and over 100 illustrations, this is a must-have for anyone who fancies a touch of the seaside at home.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGraham Higson
    Release dateDec 13, 2014
    ISBN9781310562730
    Build a Beach Hut for Your Garden
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    Charlie Minton

    CHARLIE MINTON (nicknamed "Chippy" by his friends) has spent many years in woodworking, DIY and hardware. His father, and his father before him, were master joiners. Working from a converted garage containing a large collection of woodworking gadgets and machinery, he has made wooden toys and reproduction antique furniture commercially.He lists his hobbies as reading woodworking magazines and worrying about his growing pile of offcuts that he can't bear to throw away.

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      Build a Beach Hut for Your Garden - Charlie Minton

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      What is it about beach huts?

      Although beach huts are essentially British, they are found all around the world and their history goes back hundreds of years. But usually it's the sight of these brightly-painted wooden sheds standing in rows along seaside promenades, or resting casually on the sand, of families playing, fathers with rolled-up trousers and knotted handkerchiefs on their heads, buckets and spades and sandcastles, ball games and chasing the waves. Idyllic summer fun. There's nothing else like it. Whenever I see beach huts I hanker after those days, even though I never experienced them, but somehow I know they existed.

      Since the 19th century they have appeared on picture postcards and more recently on tea towels, aprons, mugs and countless other items of ornamental paraphernalia. There is just something about them that attracts people, and I'm not certain what it is, but by heck they attract me too and I have photographed hundreds of these little buildings that form a sense of home and security between us and the sea, a place of comfort (comparatively, of course) where people can make hot drinks and sit relaxing as they watch the seemingly endless line of envious holidaymakers pass by. And it's the place where they can close the doors and get changed so they can emerge to be at one with nature, playing in the sand or swimming in the sea.

      Some people are fortunate in possessing licences that enable them to park their little havens on the front at such resorts as Christchurch and Southwold. But not everyone can get to the sea, let alone afford one of these little wooden boxes that can cost as much as buying half of one small house. Work commitments, travel hassles ... for various reasons you may not be able to even contemplate taking on a beach hut.

      But if you're a bit nuts about these huts, then why not build one in your own garden? So you may not have a sea view, but some trees and bushes can be almost as pleasant to look at. And you wouldn't have the relentless sound of the waves crashing on to the beach ... okay, I'll admit that one is a bit of a downer, but hey—nor would you have the tourists passing by, some of them staring in at you as part of the local scenery.

      You may have a pool or hot tub, or plan to get one, if so then a beach hut could be a very worthwhile project for you. We treat our beach hut as some sort of summerhouse, but you may want an office, a studio, a writer's den. It would be a shame, I think, to use such a structure for merely storing the lawnmower and garden tools; we have a separate shed for that. There are many reasons why you might want a beach hut. You may even want to replace one you have already at the seaside. But whatever the reason, I hope this book will give you something to think about, fire up your excitement, and answer some questions.

      Beach huts have been described as heaven on skids—okay, make that bearers; that it's not just being about beach huts, but a lifestyle. So let's get started and take the first steps to a fun and rewarding experience.

      2. From the back"

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      Sizing up

      This should go without saying, but you need to carefully consider exactly where you want your beach hut to be. I know this might sound obvious, but I have heard of instances where someone has ordered a shed or a greenhouse only to find that there wasn't enough room for it, or that there was but the doorway was tight against a fence.

      You should ask yourself (and anyone else you live with, or who might use the hut) the following questions:

      Is there enough room?

      This can be easily sorted by marking out the rectangle using sticks of wood such as a clothes prop, garden tools with long handles, rope or washing line to form the outline on the ground. It needs to be something that's easy to see (so don't use wool or fishing line, not as if you would). Then consider the other points such as where the veranda will be and your view whilst looking out. If there's an unsightly fence or wall you might consider planting some bushes to form some cover—in fact, this may be better done even before you begin building so as to give them chance to get established by the time you are ready to enjoy the fruits of your hard

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