The Complete Guide to Creating Your Personal Makerspace

Ready to drop into a flow state on your next making or repair project? Here’s everything you need to know about setting up a great home workshop. An article by LINK

Your Makerspace is a Sanctuary

Finally having the personal makerspace I have always dreamed of has been a godsend on so many levels. A space like this becomes a sanctuary. A place to relax. I forget my troubles. I lose myself in the joys of making.

On a practical level, it’s wonderful to have a home workspace, but do not underestimate what it can do to your mental health and your creative self to have a place specifically designed for making and self-expression.

Whether you acknowledge it or not, you are a maker. We all are. Regardless of who you are, what your interests are, your skill sets, at the very least, you likely cook, work on your home, tend a garden, engage in a hobby, maintain a car, or any other hands-on activities that require tools, techniques, and materials, and that yield desired results. Making is as old as we are. The maker movement is simply an empowering identity and a community gathered around learning, sharing, and celebrating this very fundamental of human activities.

The 18th-century British artist and poet, William Blake, had a concept he called “renovating passion.” This is the thing that you do, that, in doing it, renews you, inspires you, sets the world right again for you. Your creative reboot. For those for whom making is a renovating passion, you need a proper space in which to indulge yourself.

So, what are you waiting for? Find a corner of your life that you can spare, set up a workbench, gather your tools, and get busy!

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