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My shop is an 8'X16' exterior building. With 2x4 insulated walls, that works to 7'4"X15'4" (half inch sheet rock) interior. The 1st floor is just high enough that I can lift the Shopsmith up to drill press mode between the joist's. The upper level is 12' with about 5'4 clearance in the center.

at 8x16 I get 128' so 100 is the nearest I get.

beeg:

Thanks for bringing this up again. This is resulting in some meaningful "statistics".

I get a portion of a small basement. And at that, it shares greasy parts.

I'm always free to work outside! And often times, I do.

I have a 12’x 16’Shop. It is insulated with a window air unit. It is a good size for what I do. I do wish that I had done 12x20 I would like to have had room for a finishing both.

We have a 1,900 sq.ft. ranch style house with a full basement. My basement shop is 12.5' x 28' which gives me 350 sq. ft. I appreciate that it is cool in the summer and warm in the winter, although maintaining our one acre lot leaves little time for summer WW'ing. After 36+ years at my job, I am going to retire at the end of this year, so I am looking forward to purchasing some new equipment and spending more time in The Woodshop Below.

Right now I'm in an 11x12 area, about 1/4 of our two-car garage, next to the door. Summer can be too hot in the garage, and Michigan winters too cold.

I'd be working to convert it into a more functional shop if not for the fact my wife is house-hunting, and I might soon have much more room to work with. A little patience might be to my benefit. I've a few books by Nick Engler covering workbenches, shop furniture, tool cabinets and tool stands, and I really like the look of them. If I am going to be spending as much time in my shop as I am hoping and planning, I'd really like to do it up right. Well designed shops look so much more inviting.

dusty wrote:My wife, bless her, arranged to have a shed built on the back corner of our property.

My wife was not as happy about, as she puts it, being "banished" to the 12X8 shed I built for her in the back yard. But all she keeps in it is the gardneing supplies, which don't need power. That way, I get most of the 200 sqare foot garage for woodworking and other hobbies. But it is pretty tight, as it also holds the trash and recycling bins, a rolling bin-rack of nails and screws, a rolling tool-chest for all my automotive tools, four racing tires for my Miata, and three sets of wireframe shelves to hold tools, paint, electrical supplies, drywall supplies, and all the miscellaneous pieces of my other hobbies. Plus the shopsmith and its SPTs and a big honking 3ft X 8ft rolling workbench/wood stroage rack I built.

Cozy! But way, way better than nothing.

riot_nrrd wrote:My wife was not as happy about, as she puts it, being "banished" to the 12X8 shed I built for her in the back yard. But all she keeps in it is the gardneing supplies, which don't need power. That way, I get most of the 200 sqare foot garage for woodworking and other hobbies. But it is pretty tight, as it also holds the trash and recycling bins, a rolling bin-rack of nails and screws, a rolling tool-chest for all my automotive tools, four racing tires for my Miata, and three sets of wireframe shelves to hold tools, paint, electrical supplies, drywall supplies, and all the miscellaneous pieces of my other hobbies. Plus the shopsmith and its SPTs and a big honking 3ft X 8ft rolling workbench/wood stroage rack I built.

Cozy! But way, way better than nothing.

In the beginning, the shed was for her stuff. The stuff we had collected and she would not part with.

I slowly worked my way into a small corner (for storing some items that were in the way in the shop). I built a nice set of corner shelves to organize my stuff in that small space.

Next I found myself building some shelves so she could get better organized. That was a few years ago. Now she has decided that much of that stuff needs to be distributed to the kids. Hallelujah, the shed will be almost empty.

It could not have worked out better if I had tried. I just may end up with the better part of a 10x12 well heated storage shed.

Great idea to post this poll. 12x14 for me.