I have had 4 shops in 8.5 year and the get progressively bigger, 700 sqf, 1800 sqf, 3800 sqf, and 7200, until I got the adjoining section to make it 10,000.
Here is what I have learned.
You will never have it all figured out until you work in it for 6 months, Hind sight is always 20/20.
In small spaces make things roll around on good casters.
Make things modular, Make you work bench solid but able to attach work piece to it and remove them when done.
No matter how much space you have it will never be enough, never.
We rent storage lockers across the street from my shop for cheap space to store things out of the way. When you take a car apart it takes up the space of 3 cars when torn apart.
Don't buy a tool just to use it once. By the tools you will use 3 times a year or more. Borrow the never used tools or pay some one else to do the tast or rent the tool from them. There are so manytools needed to build a car you will filll up a 2 car garage so quickly you will not have enough room for the car.
Don't have to many work benches, work benches become shelves.
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