I told you all I would let you know what I decided to do. So here goes.
I am going to build a temporary structure that is 20 feet long by 10 feet wide and has a 4 foot by 8 foot extension on the middle of one side. (Total 232 sq. ft.) I am using 4 - 4"x10" beams on pier blocks, and then screwing 1-1/8" TG floor ply as my floor. (No floor framing, just the heavy ply.) The walls will be 2"x2" douglas fir sticks 24" on center, overlaid top, bottom, and middle with fir wiggle-molding and green opaque fiberglass panels. The roof will be made the same way but using 2"x4"s and clear fiberglass panels over the whole roof. The roof will be a shed roof and one wall will be 9 feet tall and the other 8 feet tall with the roof facing south-west. The 4X8 extension will have its roof sloped opposite the main roof. One end of the building will be readily removable to allow easy access for removing the completed fuselage and wings, etc. The access door will be also homemade and 3 feet wide. Using radius crown and wiggle moldings the building can be made virtually weather-tight. I will pre-install box fans and filters on either end for ventilation and of course to use it as a spray booth when that joyful time finally arrives. The whole building will be number marked and able to be disassembled in sections. It will be literally 5 feet from my master-bathroom exterior door. I can get from my "bed to shed" in 6 seconds. The kitchen is 3 seconds more! It is not in my living room, but is darn close to it! Beats the heck out of our originally planned 1.5 hour commute.
I should mention, (because I know you have all thunk it by now), that this sounds kinda expensive for a poor working stiff. You are correct, and for any of you in the same boat as I, it would be. But... I just happen to manage a successful (even now) specialty wood molding products manufacturing facility owned by a man who owns the local True Value and the local lumber yard (as well as a good size chunk of town). I already have the beams, and my friend and boss is going to sell me at cost the rest of the materials and let me take time to pay it off! One of the things I make is wiggle molding so I have all I need for free just using "blemishes". On top of that, my best friend's machine shop is just around the corner from my work and he has three fully operational CNC mills and is a great CAD designer and machinist. My commute time from home to work is four minutes. So my daughter and I are very fortunate. This project was "meant to be".
I am taking all of your very kind and generous advice and putting in lots of electrical and light and everything else suggested here. (I pay net cost plus 10% for everything at the True Value. A nice employee benefit we all enjoy.)
Oh, and I should clarify some things. The plane is already half way done. Yes there is a load of work left to do and we plan to build it VFR to start, and at the same time make a second control panel to allow us to upgrade with a GML glass panel and auto pilot as soon as we can. We will install the servo mounts and wires now as well as the light wires and other stuff so we can make the conversion without too much grief. We were lucky to get a Lycoming 150 with under 500 FACTORY hours on it and the seller is throwing in ALL of the tools with the kit as well as the custom seats he had made for it. Every part, every steam guage, the radio, the intercom, even a g-meter is included. The engine is complete, totally. We got really lucky with this deal which is why we bought it. It was just too darn good to pass up.
One more thing. I am not the pilot. My 15 year old daughter is the flier in the family. She flies on average twice a month and just yesterday did another cross country flight lasting two hours with total cloud cover above and heavy head winds. She has been flying since she was twelve and has 44 hours of instructor time (mostly in a '46 J3 Cub) and about 20 or more hours of ride time in 14 different planes. She has already graduated ground school and is taking her FAA PP written exam in three weeks. Her medical exam is in two weeks. She solos this July 11th and gets her PP 365 days later. She is currently a sophomore and has been singularly focused on attending the USAF Academy since 8th grade. She has been studying Arabic for two years, has played piano for 10 years, rides horses, drives cars and trucks, has a 4.0 GPA, and is the Secretary (and mascot) of our local EAA chapter. She has even flown a '47 Stearman 5 times as well as being wrung out in a Harmon Rocket and then learning to wring herself out in the same plane. She LOVES aerobatics. She loves flying.
And it is she who wants to build this plane. Besides wanting her own plane, she also wants her repairman's certificate, so she has a lot of work ahead of her.
We are painting the plane hot surveyors pink. Her name will be in rhinestones just below the skirt of the canopy. A girls plane. She is even planning to make a pink jump suit and matching accoutrement.
Seriously. I kid you not.