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I'm working to set up my new workshop. We moved into a new house a few months ago, and I'm finally getting to setting up the shop in earnest.
I'm setting up the shop in a 3 car garage. The garage has a one car bay and a two car bay. I want to be able to actually park a car in the one car bay. So I built a large wall separating the two bays. The wall covers probably 2/3 of the width. The rest will be covered by a curtain. The two car bay will be the actual woodshop area. The one car bay will be a place to park a car and will serve as a finishing space. The wall and curtain will keep sawdust contained within the two car bay. The wall also serves as a tool wall. Here's what the wall currently looks like:
From the other side:
The wall is about 10' wide and 12' high.
In my old shop I had even more on the wall. But I'm trying out moving most of my bladed tools into a tool chest. I was going to build one, but I found this old steamer trunk by the side of the road. From the manifest glued to the back it looks like it was used by an air force airman in the 1980s to ship things home from Japan. I'll be using it as a tool chest. I wanted to put wheels on it. But as it's a bit of an artifact I didn't want to actually modify the trunk itself or drill into. Instead I built a little cart for it to roll around on.
After I finish here, the last big step in setting up the shop will be installing the dust collection system. And I went overboard on this. This is very much a dream shop setup I'm building out. Currently in a bunch of boxes strewn about the shop is an entire Oneida Dust Gorilla and a network of piping to service the various machines.
I so wish I had a garage...
My workshop is in a (former) bedroom in a smallish UK terrace house and it's so hard to keep the dust contained, and impossible to work with full sheet materials
Looking fab so far!
Mate I do sometimes wish I was American, or at least lived out in the country, just for the sake of S P A C E!
I love my little terraced house, but my little shed can't hold that much and I want a workshop for my electronics
Thanks! The garage is nice. It has some real advantages. When it's all set up, I'll be able to back the pickup truck to the garage door and take a full sheet of plywood directly from the truck bed to the workbench. When the weather is nice, I like to open the doors and just work in the fresh air. Finally, while I do sweep and vacuum up, there's always a little bit of dust left over. For that little bit of dust, I can grab the leaf blower and just blow the last bit of really fine dust out the garage door.