My solution to these problems is a sliding garage curtain “wall” that can separate my shop off from the other two stalls. I use a very small propane heater to keep the area warm while I work, but I can generally only keep it around 45 degrees when it’s below 0 outside. The secondary problem to working in the garage is most evident in a Minnesota winter heat. My lawn equipment also doesn’t exactly enjoy having a think layer of sawdust on the motor, hence the cover on the riding mower above.
The problem with working in my garage is that there are other things in there besides lumber and tools to get covered in dust. And of course, all this is just minutes away from the finest beaches in the world.Third Stall Woodworking gets its name from where I do my woodworking the third stall of my garage. In front, the circular drive, motor court and attached two-car garage provide plenty of parking. Outside, the gunite pool is surrounded by a large sun deck and a pool house with another half bathroom. Three guest bedrooms have private baths and three more share a hall bathroom - give those bedrooms to the summer guests you don’t like as much - while the primary suite provides a charming sitting room, a dressing room and an en-suite bathroom. A powder room and a den with a fireplace complete the main level. A huge sun porch includes sliding doors on either end, to take in cool summer breezes, but also offers protection on buggy summer nights.
The ground floor of the house includes a spacious formal living room with fireplace, a formal dining room, and a large eat-in kitchen. Sure, the house could use some updates, but it’s not worth quibbling about since anyone paying $18 million for a house is certainly going to spend even more money on upgrades and customizations.
#Garage screen curtain plus
The estate is, in fact, made of two parcels that might possibly be subdivided: 1.3 acres on tony Jericho Lane, plus an additional 1.1-acre vacant parcel that abuts the possibly even tonier Apaquogue Road, site of the legendary Grey Gardens estate. The historic house includes a pool and cabana in its lovely park-like grounds. Listing agent is James Petrie at Compass.Īnyone looking to channel their new fortune into a stately old-money estate need look no further. Netter passed away in 2009.) Now, their Shingle Style house, built in 1901, and set on 2.4 acres close to the ocean, in East Hampton’s coveted estate section, is available for sale at $17.9 million. She and her attorney husband bought the Jericho Lane estate in 1977. According to her obituary in the East Hampton Star, “Her gardens were magnificent, only to be outdone by the floral arrangements she created from them, as centerpieces for her dinner parties.” Gardening was another passion of Netter, as it is easy to see from the photos of the property. Indeed, American folk art, majolica, antique hat forms, ironstone, antique bird cages, brass shoes, cranberry glass, and modern and contemporary art were all passions of the late owner of this East Hampton estate, Alice Netter, who passed in July at the age of 87. Expect Colefax & Fowler prints on curtains, chairs, and bedclothing, along with scads of antique furniture, and most of all, copious evidence of an educated and moneyed collector. Signs of the Old Money Zone: ancient specimen trees that arch over rolling croquet and badminton lawns and inside, restrained good taste. The old shingled house has a signpost up ahead. A journey into a wondrous land called East Hampton, where hydrangeas bloom as big as grapefruit and rose bushes tumble over picket fences. You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind.
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