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Hi All
Thanks for all the positive comments. to answer some questions, the shop is clad with Japanese Cedar (sugi), Cryptomeria Japonica - that is grown on the island - it is a wood that is almost perfect for the humid climate we have here, it is also borer resistant, but it does need to be away from the dirt. earth when it is used - there is no interior panneling, just a skin of the cryptomeria. all the beams and windows are also Cryptomeria - I will certainly post more pictures.
regards
Nath

Your shop looks so inviting and made for a woodworker to be right at home. Would love to have all the space you have and like all the windows. Great looking shop - Thanks for sharing.

I believe you get my envy vote for nicest atmosphere hands down..........

For years I drooled over barns like this for a shop. It would be great to have one as a "bank barn" (no, not for money ) and have the mechanics and metal shop on the ground floor and have the woodshop in the loft with a drive in entry at that level. There are quite a few of these "cyclone roof" barns in this area including one at a couple of neighbors east of me. One is regular cyclone (round curve) and the other is actually a gambrel. It would take a good bit of work to make one into a "proper" shop since about all of them had low ceilings on the ground floor, usually about 7'. That was done to keep the loft as big as possible to store a winters worth of hay. It would be work but not over-whelming to raise the loft floor a couple of feet or so. There are many of these that are smaller than this one since they were often built here for a small dairy herd. Small dairy herds of a dozen milk cows was pretty common here. I know of some that are quite small built for half a dozen cows. Many of them were built during the depression through programs like WPA etc. The one in the picture that I found on-line is a Sears & Roebuck precut kit barn.
In one this big a second loft floor about 10' above a now raised main loft floor would make good storage.
One of my neighbors does have his wood shop in a corner of their barn like this but he just "deals with" the low ceiling level.
I'm happy with my new location in the old store building on the farm about 400' south of the house and I am pretty much done wishing for something else.
OK, maybe a 32'X32' attached to the north side of the house and built with a wood floor at the same level as the house floor and an "air-lock" between them could tempt me.
The door between the house and the shop would be in the library and a little dust in there is normal.

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