When you come to a fork in the road...

[BATMAN]

There seems to be a lot of excuses for not doing things in this thread. Here is a solution.

Sleep on top, train down below. If you build this yourself it will be cheap and easy. You can build the lower part as large as you can get away with. 

 

 

[riogrande5761]

So you are going to build a shed?  Sounds like quite a project.  I imagine there are lots of plans on the web for sheds. 

Post pictures plz of yours under construction.    

[gmpullman]

riogrande5761

So you are going to build a shed?  Sounds like quite a project.

Don't forget building codes — especially in severe-weather areas such as yours:

http://lsuccc.dps.louisiana.gov/pdf/UC_Codes_Amendments_2018.pdf

Building to hurricane-resistant standards can add a considerable cost to your project.

NWP SWP

I think I might do that I'll go to HD and start buying lumber.

You have stamped and approved plans already?

Just sayin'

Good Luck, Ed

[NWP SWP]

Before I break ground I am going to aquire the proper permits and documentation. A family friend is a General Contractor so if I run into trouble I can ask him for help.

[last mountain & eastern hogger]

Steven, I don't think anyone has mentioned this, but if I were in your boots, I would be looking for a older used travel trailer to purchase. It would be less expensive than building a similar sized shed. Then when you move out for whatever reason you can just take it with you or have someone haul it to where you go. It would sure work for me if I were in N scale or hon3. Give it some serious thought. Johnboy out........

[Overmod]

Likely even cheaper would be a road semitrailer, or even a 'storage' ISO container put on block footings.  Fairly simple to install a window or package air conditioner and to insulate and line the walls.  Not quite as movable as a travel trailer, but still clearly 'portable' when the time comes to sell the house and you'd otherwise have to think about demolition...

[NWP SWP]

My parents bought the 8 acres we live on from my grandparents last year (they still live here too) there's about 14 years left on the mortgage after which it'll be owned outright, I intend to approach the owners of the lot nextdoor about buying it off them (they haven't done anything with it in the 9 years we've lived here) if I succeed that'd make about 16 or so acres, the plan is that the property will be passed down to either me or my brother and keep it in the family, so selling isn't really a problem, the only issue might be when I go to college I'll be leaving my layout here if it's not trailerized. But then again in reality it'd be far less Hassel for me to build a 16x32/48 building in the back of the property being that I have the skills to do so. I can also get one or two PTAC units as climate control.