step one: clear out the back end of the shed, and demolish the pressboard shelves.

step two: build a wall, approximately four and a half feet from the back end wall of the shed (materials already purchased). (include building a leg for the remainder of the shelves using recycled wood from the demolition project, in preparation to re-cover them (later, different project) with something more durable than pressboard.) — LATER!

step three: add a, preferably, left-hand, outswing door.

step four: add a ceiling. (materials already purchased)

the wall is complete! the door is complete, and it WORKS (thanks to my next-door neighbour, tracy, who does this sort of thing because he finds it relaxing)!! the only things left, at this point, are installing the insulation and the mylar (materials have been bought and delivered), and hanging the lights (all of which i can do myself). eventually, at some point, we’re going to have to re-do the electrical service to the shed, because it is currently an extension cord, buried under the turf of the back yard, and plugged into a GFI on the back deck — goddamn ron zeising! 🤬 — and i had to move the outlet in the shed, because a big FUCKING extension cord is NOT the correct way to wire an outbuilding! 😒

step five: add insulation on the walls and ceiling, preparing for step six in the process. then add reflective mylar sheeting over the insulation.

step six: add existing grow lights.