Dave Durham's Workshop

Good job! I love the floor, white walls and yellow accent strip.

Do you find the floor to be slippery or did you put some silica or equiv in the epoxy?

-- Joe

The floor is sprinkled with rubbery flakes (they call it “broadcasting” during the install). No slip problem. It’s the same type of floor they use in car show rooms. It’s an epoxy not a paint so most everything just wipes up and won’t stain. For example, stain comes right up even a couple of days after finishing a piece.

I like a lot of color so you’ll see reds, yellows, blues, etc. The only problem is…. perceptional color shift. Your eye starts to get used to seeing that much red and it can be difficult to accurately pick a stain color and know what it will really look like in normal lighting. So much red bounces around the room that things get an oh-so-slight red shift to them. So I just make sure I don’t do any color matching in the garage. I take wood stain samples into the Living Room (very neutral in color) and compare there. Not a big deal, it’s just something to be aware of.

nice looking shop….your right the pay phone is cool..:-)

-- Todd, Oak Ridge, TN, Hello my name is Todd and I'm a Toolholic, I bought my last tool 10 days, no 4 days, oh heck I bought a tool on the way here! †

ABsolutely a neat workshop…................... Too neat…................no sawdust…........ Let’s see some dust and some projects now….........................LOL

Great looking shop and thanks fopr the tour.

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

Dave, you have a really nice shop space in which to work. I like the colors that you have added to your shop. The paint routine certainly livens the shop area up. The floor is nice as well. The gloss coating will help with the lighting in the shop. You have some nice tools to play with as well. I would enjoy working in there.

Thanks for the post. I enjoyed touring your shop.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

Very nice neat colorful place to work! Thanks for posting Dave.

-- Bill, Florida

Hi Dave

What a great looking shop you have! You are my kind of guy. Everthing has a place and everything in its place. I am in the process of working on my new shop which is mostly done. Starting to buy the equipment and building cabinets for it now. Love your red floor! I kind of got the red theme going on as well. The shop cabinets will be red laminate with natural solid trim. Nothing nice as yours but check it out if you care to. I just wanted to thank you for the inspiration!

God Bless
Tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

Very nice. Almost too nice to get dirty. I see you keep it pretty clean.

-- Just 'cause a cat has kittens in the oven, it don't make 'em biscuits.

LOL, it’s only clean when I take a picture. Normally I have to hire a guide to help me find my way through. OK, maybe not quite that bad but it was definitely gussied up for the pictures.