It looks great Ryan. Did you do the epoxy floor?
I’ve seen pictures. Yours is clean compared to mine! Mine is just a down right disaster! And Ryan’s looks like a pic out of a magazine lol. @vicious1 should have taken pics before all the cleaning! 
We are “supposed” to do some clean up of the new basement work area tomorrow. If that happens it will become what Ryan’s looked like before cleaning, and Ill post some pics. Dont even get me started on the garage area 
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Must not have seen a recent one…
Or must have got it at just the right angle 
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Good timing for me on this thread. New 16’ x 20’ workshop is almost done but then I’ve got a blank canvas to figure out. Should finish up and run electric this month. Then my garage might get a car back in it.
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No, I was about to give it a shot. I was so busy because of the move I hired a guy. The floor has held up great but If I were to have done it I would have done some more prep first. It has been nearly 5 years and nothing bad yet.
Trying to make a little filming corner at the same time…we’ll see. it is all fun and games until the camera turns on then I am over it.
Yeah that was the hard part. It is much easier when you need to play Tetris, then things only fit one way. With room it is kinda harder to figure out.
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I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t jealous! Love seeing all the shops!
Did you say dirty side? I’m confused because your garage is cleaner than my house these days LOL
What size are you two lowriders there? they fit in there so nicely!
Suck it up butter cup! It’s for the best. And the videos you have done are excellent!
Ryan only likes the baby ones. 2’x4’
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Both 2x4, one is set up for plasma over a water table, the other is the V4.
It is normally really really dirty, that is why I took a picture. I have a feeling it is about to be pretty busy for a while.
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If you move to michigan i bet that space would be half or less in cost! Plenty of other areas too!
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Compared to yours, my shop is tiny, but for German standards it’s incredibly huge for someone who does it as a hobby.
Pictures later. 
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We have a saying: in America, everything is bigger. 
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blast from the past.
it ended up kinda close to that, but is still a work in progress.
Ill post pics after my Jamaica trip (10 years married bois!)
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I bought a house on 19 acres last year, and I say “house” loosly" lol it’s about german standards in terms of size, the garage/workshop is bigger lol. We specifically called out when buying we are only buying for the land and the garage, the house is just something we’ll make better
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I spruced up my garage shop earlier this year. Paint, floor, storage, re-arrange and organize. The other side is just storage, this is the ~2/3rds where the magic happens. The CNC at this point was in a bastardized state before I built my new one…
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That’s awesome - love the flooring! What is that?
A couple of years ago I got to convert a utility barn into a more usable space (this property was built for horses, and we don’t have any. yet). Mostly that meant pouring a slab for the floor, and framing out a small office in one corner.
Trigger warning - this place is A MESS! Part of that is due to me and my habits, but part of it is totally due to some quick reshuffling for a rather non-typical shop ‘project’ I’ll show you below.
Here’s the CNC corner. You can see the Drama Queen full sheet+ LR3 waiting for an LR4 upgrade, a few odds and ends, and my great-great-grandfather’s workbench (he was a cabinet maker at the turn of the last century). My grandpa used that bench when he retired and got into woodworking’s a hobby, and my Dad gave it to me last year (along with some 120yr old tools).
Next to the CNC corner is my 10x12 office. That’s where I work and pretend to work every day, where the 3d printer lives, and where one day my electronics bench will be. It’s got a window that looks out to the CNC corner so I can monitor jobs and see out the big barn door to the fields and pretend I’m not locked inside.
The other half of the workshop is where I’ve got most of my traditional tools for making sawdust and doing my volunteer stage carpentry rotations.
In the second of these 2 photos you can see the reason for part of my mess - that non-traditional shop addition I mentioned. I started having a bit of a mouse problem out here so I rescued a few ‘working cats’ from the local shelter, and am acclimating them to the shop.
I avoid making dust or doing anything too loud in the shop while they’re stuck in here with me, which makes me very glad for these full width rolling doors that mean I can wheel most of my tools out behind the shop and work outside.
If you look closely you can see part of the Yellow Brick Road from my kid’s recent Wizard of Oz performance, and a motorized self-repairing magic table from Mary Poppins. I gotta get better at throwing things out…
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That painted floor looks really cool! I hadn’t even considered that, but man now my wheels are turning! You are not messing around in there either, is that a metal lathe too?
The floor isnt painted, it’s an interlocking PVC tile floor, but the interlocking teeth are hidden underneath a kind of half lap joint. I think I got it from garageflooringinc.
Yes, a metal lathe…family heirloom along with the mill and the bandsaw from my grandfather and uncle, both machinists.
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