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Need help planning a new workshop? Or maybe you've got the urge to reorganize the one you have now. Either way, you've come to the right place. In this shop you'll discover how we took a 14x28' bare-bones room and remodeled and outfitted it into the sensational, featured filled woodworking center shown here. Use any of the ideas you like -- after all, we built this shop just for you.

We took a standard 24x24' double-car garage and designed the space to accommodate a nifty shop and the team had to think mobility, double duty, comfort, security, and cost. But in the end, one great similarity with our first effort stands out: bunches of terrific, easily adaptable ideas!

The emphasis in this 12x16' basement shop was to squeeze in all the tools and machines needed for a complete workshop and still provide room to move around. Can you imagine how crowded the space would be if all the machines were on separate stands? The other challenge was to take care of the dust as quietly as possible.

For this shop we started with a third stall of a three-car garage, a feature found in many newer homes. You may not have this type of garage at your house. That's okay. Wherever you place your shop, we know you'll find a whole world of great ideas in this one that you can easily put to use.

This Idea Shop occupies a 12x20' building connected to the garage by a covered portico. The shop's 9' ceiling has three powered, venting skylights, each operated electronically. Those, plus four windows, French doors, and a pastel color scheme add natural light and a sense of spaciousness in what otherwise might feel like tight quarters.

Starting with a blank slate, we created a dream shop with down-to-earth ideas you can apply in your shop.

Each year, we build more than 60 projects for upcoming issues of WOOD magazine. Building each project in our own shop allows us to verify the drawings and work within shouting distance of the editors and designers. But, with so many projects and two project builders, the working space in our main shop was getting a bit tight. To solve the problem, we're in the process of renovating an 18x20' area in the basement of our building to be used as both a workshop and photo studio. We still have a way to go, but here's a glimpse of what we're working on.

The editors of WOOD are always on the lookout for shops to feature in our magazines. Visit this page for submission details.