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 .
Owner Marc Manly calls it “the barn,” but you won’t find any animals inside. Rather, a spacious shop and a space to entertain—both as beautiful as the exterior—share the interior.
Joe dedicated a double-wide bay of his garage to woodworking. Lumber storage spills into the walls of the other two bays used for parking his vehicles.
Walking into Gary Toles’s outbuilding, you might be confused as to whether you’re in his shop or his den.
When Ed Kassof converted his two-car garage to a woodworking shop, he exiled the family cars to the driveway, a decision he hasn’t regretted.
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