You are going to have a great shop there when it is done. I will be looking forward to seeing its progress. It makes it nice when MaMa thinks this is a good idea. My wife let me have our garage with the understanding I would clean her car off in the winter months. I have to do it for my truck anyway, so it is no big deal to do hers as well. Good Luck on the new shop.
Your shop is going to be great. It is about the same size as mine (Check out the Pics) Mine is also still under construction. Unfortunately, I have been called back to Iraq so the shop is on hold tilll I get home miid September. Keep us posted. Cheers/Wudbutcher
Seeing the other WoodJocks working in their shops & building their shops did make me a bit envious too. But it also gave me ideas on what & how to do things when I started to make a shop of my own. I'd still like to have a bathroom in my shop like Big Steve but there's not enough room on my lot to go larger… Darn!!!
When we found we had to block in the basement windows it meant that our daughter could no longer use the room in the basement as a bedroom. When we moved her back to an unused upstairs bedroom, my lovely, wonderful, thoughtful wife & I were able to use that room in the basement to make wifey a den of her own. Now she has her computer, desk, treadmill & the like in her own area. Worst thing is…. HER ROOM IS DONE ALREADY!!!! She's a "Happy Camper" now. We are both still waiting to get the cars back into the garage though. That'll take a few more weeks.
I took a couple of more pix to post. They'll be up in a few days.
My wife's Uncle Chuck, in Florida, is worried that he hasn't heard from his niece for a while & insists that I prove that she's not bricked into the "crawl space" beneath the house. Soooo… here's a photo of her AFTER the windows were bricked in. But on a twist of an old Memorex ad… is she REAL or is she "Photo Shopped"?! LOL
Here's my wife in the den that we fixed up for her while in the process of making my shop. You can see that I left the window openings alone in the basement & left the bricks exposed. My wife uses them as nic-nak shelves.
Hope they show up soon! I've been following your blog and I'm looking forward to seeing it go up. Between yours and some other "new shop" blogs I've read, I'm beginning to realize how lucky I was with my contractor!
Love those double doors. I presume you will be doing some concrete walks. Be sure you make them wide enough. Looks like you have things pretty will planed out. It is going to be a great shop! Thanks for posting.
This looks like it's going to be a great shop for you. I partitioned off the 3rd stall of my garage and am in the process of moving into the shop. I look forward to seeing the inside of yours.
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