Inspiring Shops
Looking for some inspiration for your woodworking shop? These workshops range from small to large, all of them full of ideas you can use in your shop.
Dale Heisinger's Orcas Island, Washington, workshop isn't much bigger than the half of the two-car garage where he used to work. But his new 16x24' shop is so much better.
Jack Olsen had to find a way to make this 440-sq-ft garage work as a metal shop, a wood shop, and an auto shop-all without any room to expand and only $1,000 to cover the upgrades.
From the outside, Mike Walker's workshop looks like a well-appointed lakeside retreat .
Outdoor lighting invites you into a cozy workshop. The welcoming 8×16' porch area also serves as additional work area by swinging open the doors that comprise one end of the shop.
Nestled behind a 110-year old Victorian home in the Catskill Mountains, a three-story carriage house tucked into the side of a hill serves as Tom Jeffers’s woodworking retreat.
After his retirement, Eric Ralston bought 2 1/2 acres of land in northern Ohio and built a home and the shell of a two-story, 24×24' garage.
A woodworker’s paradise sits at 8,000' elevation in the Rocky Mountains.
Blessed with an eye for potential, David Willett looked at his dark, unfinished 11⁄2
-car garage built in 1956 and saw the bones of a workshop.
In 2013, Michael Hinson built a 15×15' shop.
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