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Originally Posted by rousseau
Nice places and cats in this thread. I especially like your classic Montreal-style walkup apartment, Lio. Having so many rooms lined up like that makes for potentially long walks inside your living space, which to me feels so luxurious.
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The cats actually love to chase each other racing in a straight line through those four full-sized rooms whenever we're leaving all the doors open (i.e. most of the time).
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But here's my shed out back. Where do you apartment/condo-dwellers keep all your gardening tools and bike stuff?
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That's an excellent question. I'm not sure how I'd manage if I didn't own the building, because the basement has been my equivalent of your shed for the last 10 years (in other words, it's been like that for many years before I ended up moving into that building).
I'm set up for machining in there, and I store all my bigger items like my big hardwood sanding machine, compressors, pressure washers, etc. There are even various engine and drivetrain parts for my vehicles in there (as you can guess, I'm not the kind of guy that's very suited to a condo). It's a 2,000 sq ft basement with good ceiling height everywhere so it's extremely convenient. It's honestly almost like a mini hardware store - I have stock piles of inventory of everything (plumbing, electrical, etc.) and I'll often find what I'm looking for in there rather than have to go out and buy it.
Whenever I move out of this particular building, the basement will continue to be my main tool and inventory storage area, that's for sure.
But I have to say it's convenient to live in this building out of all of the ones I have because it's where my "man cave" already happened to be. For example, lately, I was working on fixing the PTO driveshaft for my tractor, so I was comfortably working in the basement with all the equipment needed to grind and drill holes in metal, and my gf would text me to say supper's ready so I'd simply just get up a few stories. None of my tenants could do something like this in this building... they don't have access to my basement.
I'll miss this, when we move out of this apt.