New chicken owner needing recommendations on coop design

[Cary-Anne]

So I was given a rooster for a housewarming present even though I wasn't planning on entering the chicken world till next year as we JUST bought our acreage and was going to wait till winter was done BUT Russell has now changed all that. Let's just say it's a good thing he is tame and handsome and that I really do want a small flock or I might've told my friend to take him home. lol Anywho I have since claimed a shed as my coop and my father in law is in the process of designing us an outdoor run. For the very short term we threw together some pallets with chicken wire (yes not ideal I know) and it looks like next weekend is going to be coop construction day so I thought I would post what I've got to work with on here and see what sort of feedback I get. Please be kind. Wondering about flooring for both in and out, windows or what not for ventilation, perches, doors, etc. I live in Alberta Canada so my summers are very hot and dry (upwards of 35C) and windy (80km/hr is a breeze here) and winters get boughts of severe cold (as low as minus 30+C) and heavy snow, which is then melted by warm windy days known as "chinooks" resulting in a boggy wet mess. Both me and my husband grew up on farms but have been city slickers for the last 20years so we need all the help we can get. I am in touch with a great chicken breeder in the area who has been supplying me with pasture grazed eggs for years. The coop measures 6x5x6' (L x W x H) and the run is going to be 6x6x6'. I only want to get about 5-8 hens. The coop walls have 3" insulation and faces N/S with the door being on the North and the run with the run door on the South. Majority of the wind comes from the West. The coop is also being resided. I also have these dressers that I was going to partition down the middle in hopes of using them for nesting boxes. The coop seems to be elevated off the ground by 2x4s.

 

[SonoranChick]

It looks like you're off to a great start! I love how your dogs are monitoring the situation in the one photo...they are so funny. You will read and receive tons of different info, and it really is a learn-as-you-go endeavor, but here are my two cents.
DO NOT allow the chickens to roost/sleep above the nest box, or anything you do not want covered in poo. All night long, they poo. So a simple and quick clean-up in the morning is impossible if they are roosting over anything other than the ground or perhaps a net to catch the droppings. They will attempt to roost at the highest point. For me, this was the roof of the nest box We had to build a new, higher roost away from the box and train them to use that.