Frugal's workshop tour

[frugal]

My workshop is an oversized single garage. 20' x 12'. I gave the walls a coat of white emulation paint and the floor a good coat of garage floor paint which has made the whole place a lot brighter and easier to clean.

This is the view from the doors down to the end of the workshop:

Wood store at the back left, workbench at the back right and the bandsaw on the right hand side.

Next we have a view from the back towards the doors. You can just see the bandsaw on the left had side. On the side hand side there is the old cupboards from the kitchen (doesn't every workshop / garage end up with the old kitchen cupboards). Above the cupboards are some simple MDF shelves that hold the hand tools. Along the left hand side you can see some of the wood that does not fit into the wood store at the back leaning up against the junk that the workshop has accumulated.

The power tools are all in their boxes on the shelves. The bandsaw is an old Record Select bandsaw that is not great, but it does. Next to the bandsaw is the Axminster sander which is the most useful power tool I own.

Finally the woodstore, some shelving full of 'stuff' and the all important radio

 

[PowerTool]

Thanks for the tour,you seem to have made the most of the space and still have sufficient floor space spare.
Amazing the difference white paint makes,isn't it?

Andrew

 

[frugal]

The workbench and the kitchen cabinets were already there when we moved in, but as the previous occupant had been using it to restore classic cars the emphasis was slightly different.

The white paint is only on the left and back walls as you look down from the doors.

The workbench is just a sheet of OSB on top of a pine frame. I mounted a bench vice on it, but using the vice has caused the pine frame to start to come apart. If I can ever afford it I want to make a proper bench along the right hand side just as you enter the building.

 

[OPJ]

Good use of wall-space, which does help to free up the room around your feet. For a single-garage though, you appear to have done very well not to have accumulated loads of household junk... Or is that all hidden in the roofspace above? :wink:

 

[frugal]

Good use of wall-space, which does help to free up the room around your feet. For a single-garage though, you appear to have done very well not to have accumulated loads of household junk... Or is that all hidden in the roofspace above? :wink:

There is a variety of junk up in the rafters (baby car seat, guttering, stuff like that). If you look at the fisrt photo: all of the reclaimed oak (or firewood as I call it) is leaning against an 8'x3' pile of junk consisting of a pair of unwanted mowers, the washing line, a dining table and six chairs and a batter faux-leatherette recliner.

Attached to the main house is another workshop that the previous owner used for his wood turning, it is about 12'x12' and full of junk, to the extent that you can only just open the door