When the wife and I got sick of the south Florida "BLOWS" we moved our popcorn stand to north central Florida. Spent a lot of weekends looking for the right place. Finally settled on 15 acres in the horse country north of Ocala, FL.

The FIRST thing built was our shop, 100x60x30. We also had a 900 sq/ft full living quarters apartment built inside the shop. We lived there, almost 2 years, while the wife found the right plans/builder for our house. The "build out" apartment has a good size kitchen, living room a bedroom and bath with shower. I now use it mostly to house my engraving plotter equipment. It's really nice after working all day, go in and take a shower, put on fresh clothes and walk the 100 yards over to the house.

The shop is fully insulated with large roll up doors at both ends. Our builder suggested setting the building a little different to take advantage of prevailing winds in our area. He was right, even on the hottest days, with both doors open I get a really nice breeze through the shop.

Really, I wouldn't want to live anyplace else.
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