While I worked wood in apartments before having a house, it was pretty crude and unsophisticated stuff to meet needs with a corded drill and jigsaw and not much else. When I got a house in the mid-nineties, I set up a shop in a small dank corner of the basement and still had no room for power tools, except a portable benchtop table saw (crap mini-fence) that I would lug up narrow stairs to the backyard to use. It was then that I started learning about handtools in earnest as I had no room to work any other way. About ten years ago when we renovated our small house, I was able to add a basement shop under the new space - about 20x20. I still don't have very fancy stationary/power tools (contractors table saw PM 64A, PM 14" bandsaw with riser, Makita 12" lunchbox planer, Makita SCMS, Rigid drill press, Jet dust collector), but they are more than enough for my needs. I added a Jet 1642 lathe a few years back, and the rest are hand tools. I build storage and shop organizing stuff between projects - maybe every 6 months. Funny thing is, I always need more! With wood, and all sorts of other stuff living there, my shop is getting pretty cramped and messy these days. I need to sell some extra stuff!