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Started working on the shop this weekend. I have enough small-ish stuff that I can work on that I can still do the work in the basement. As you may recall, I was working on spars before I moved.
After removing a wall in an unfinished space, I have a shop that’s roughly 20x18 now. I’ll be building an L-shaped bench around the perimeter. There is a substantial egress window in the space as well, so I’ll be able to get the spars out through there if the normal stairs don’t work out.
The room had no electrical, so I added four 20A circuits for normal 115V stuff, and a 50A 230V circuit for my welder. I also lit it up like WalMart with five 8-foot LED fixtures. Arguably the brightest spot in the house, even when it’s full sun in the living room.
I looked at doing full cabinetry in there to make it a “fancy†shop, but at $1820 just for cabinets, I decided to go the cheap route and build a framework type like I had in my other shop. So far, I have less than $200 in materials in it, and I haven’t yet run out of lumber.
I’ll put progress here as I go as an idea space for others who work in a small shop. I plan to get creative with storage in the process.
The photos today are of the long wall, about 19’4â€, which is where the spars will be built. I plan it to be 3’ deep in top, so there’ll be a 1-foot overhang on this bench top so I have place to fasten jigs and such without interference from the framework below.
After removing a wall in an unfinished space, I have a shop that’s roughly 20x18 now. I’ll be building an L-shaped bench around the perimeter. There is a substantial egress window in the space as well, so I’ll be able to get the spars out through there if the normal stairs don’t work out.
The room had no electrical, so I added four 20A circuits for normal 115V stuff, and a 50A 230V circuit for my welder. I also lit it up like WalMart with five 8-foot LED fixtures. Arguably the brightest spot in the house, even when it’s full sun in the living room.
I looked at doing full cabinetry in there to make it a “fancy†shop, but at $1820 just for cabinets, I decided to go the cheap route and build a framework type like I had in my other shop. So far, I have less than $200 in materials in it, and I haven’t yet run out of lumber.
I’ll put progress here as I go as an idea space for others who work in a small shop. I plan to get creative with storage in the process.
The photos today are of the long wall, about 19’4â€, which is where the spars will be built. I plan it to be 3’ deep in top, so there’ll be a 1-foot overhang on this bench top so I have place to fasten jigs and such without interference from the framework below.
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