The space available for a home shop varies in each case.  By examining how other is similar situation handle the situation, may give you ideas of how you can handle your own situation.

The easy-to-maintain workshop getaway

When he decided that his detached two-car garage workshop had too many demands placed upon it--mainly, the parking of his pickup, wife Jolene's car, and two Victory motorcycles--he made his big move. He designed and then contracted the building of a 30x36' addition onto the back of his garage. To allow room for his ceiling lights and dust-collection ducting, he designed a 9' ceiling.

Plan The Right Kind Of Layout For Your Woodworking Workshop

When you are looking at the workshop layout for woodworking each wood worker will be faced with a unique set of challenges in order to build one that is right for them. Firstly they will need to decide where it is going to be located. Will it be in the basement, the garage or will it have its own dedicated building? Certainly the decision on where it is located is probably the most important decision that a wood worker will need to make with regard to their workshop. Once this has been decided they can move on to the next stage.

Shop Layout

Planning the layout of your workshop early in its development can keep you from spending years in an uncomfortable, poorly organized space.

The Woodworking Shop Layout for Efficiency

A Woodworking shop layout should work smoothly and efficiently. However, in most shops that I've seen, planning is lacking. With all the machines and materials required for a project, a shop can get crowded and cramped. All it takes is a little planning. You can make your shop layout for woodworking efficient.  The key to planning is to think about how a typical project "flows" through the shop. Then establish an area for each part of the process.

Making the Most Out of a Small Woodworking Shop

As woodworkers we all love to look at the latest and greatest gadgets to use in our shop and then find that we ask ourselves where we would put them. Or maybe we just buy it and end up storing them somewhere never to be seen again. The fact is we all probably need to get rid of our junk and organize the things which we regularly use.