Hi folks, I have made a few posts now and have had some great help. Thanks. And now I would like to impose upon you all again
I am able to build a small (did I say small...you know SMALL ) shed in our new garden. Looking through the forum and at some of the pics of people's workshops have been interesting and made me a bit reluctant to divulge the size of my new workshop. A lot of you seem to have monster shops. Some of the shops out there are the size of a small house here in Japan, if not bigger. Any as they say, it is not the size of your shop, its what you do with that counts. Or something like that.
Oh, Did I mension that I live in Japan. I nice place to live but space is rather limited unless you live way out in the sticks, have a LOT of money or you have your own dungeon (Stu - you lucky guy )
However I have decided to bite the bullet and ask for your valuable input... Until now I have used a little portable workbench where ever I have been able to. On the balcony, in the hall, the kitchen, or recently on the new terrace... But now that small yearning voice deep down is starting to screem louder and louder. I want to go further in my woodworking and need a good bench and place to store my extisting tools and the new tools I plan to buy. (Thanks for everyone's help there.)
So here is a picture of my "walk in tool box"...
Walk in Tool box Elavations and plan.jpg
Sorry but it is all in metric if you can read it. (having trouble with the quality- had to scan a plot of my drawing and then save as JPEG)
The toolbox / shed is roughly 9'6" long by 4' wide/deep.
The "work area" as shown is about 82" x 42" interior space and the "garden stuff" area is about 18" x 42" interior space. This might be able to be changed a couple of inches but I am limited by the space I have. And I need swing room for the doors between the shed and a wall at the end of the terrace (infront of the shed). A site plan can be posted later if needed.
My initail plan was to divide my shed into a my "walk-in-toolbox" for my hobby and sanity and have a small closet for storing the garden tools and stuff. This is as shown.
But after looking through the creek here and looking into bench designs etc. I am thinking again about my layout. And now , before it is built, is the time to rethink things.
And this is where I would like your collective wisdom...