Chicken house layout plans8/15/2023 It’s edged with granite rubble strips to keep everything in place. Note, in order to cut down on the amount of mud and dirt that we’d have to walk through to get to the coop (and drag into the house), I’ve essentially covered the entire area with pea gravel…all but the foundation plantings. create a cool vibe when we’re hanging out in the eventual dining space. provide functional lighting when we check on the chickens at night but also, 2. Not drawn, but I also plan on adding a few strands of string lights to both: 1. I’ve already created the outline where these spaces will live…I just have to find the time to build the different components. And this year, I hope to add a potting bench with a rain barrel and a dining / hangout area with banquette seating – that will also serve as a screen. Currently on SFF you’ll find: the chicken coop/bunny hutch, chicken run, and tool shed. You’ll see that I’ve gone ahead and drawn both the current and future elements. The featured drawing and the one below are a bird’s-eye view of the entire “Scott Family Farm” (SFF)…err, our side yard. You can still have a really cool, attractive space…you just have to be intentional about it. That said, you don’t have to go to the lengths that we did. We wanted it to not only go with the rest of our home and landscape…style-wise, but that it also had a cozy feel – embracing the fact that it’s not a very large space…about 25′ x 35′. But when I sat down to design it, besides wanting to accomplish all the obvious functional objectives, I also wanted to make sure that the entire space that we created was one that we would want to hangout in. We realize that our chicken coop is not the average chicken coop…particularly in a suburbian neighborhood. Part 2, which will come next week, will contain more detail on the exterior views. Today’s post will include an overview of the entire “chicken space” and the “floorplan” of the coop. But with that…I do have yet another post on our chickens…and this time it’s because a number of you have asked about our chicken coop design. Well I assure you that’s not the case…but they do add quite a bit of texture to my family’s life. Given the frequency of posts about our feathered ladies, I know some of you may think my life revolves around our chickens.
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