Frank's Workshop Construction Project

[Frank Pellow]

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Within the "How Big is your Shop" thread that was so popular earlier this week, I mentioned my dilemma in the trade off between workshop space and vegetable garden space. Here (in italics) is an excerpt from that thread:

The plans, for which I have a building permit, are for a 24' by 18' building with a bite out of one corner. Once I subtract the bite as well as the width of the walls, I will be left with 345 square feet. The building will have a cathedral ceiling with lots of skylights. I will have the use of the old basement shop for storage and for finishing.

I could have designed a bigger building and still have been within the zoning rules but, as it is, the workshop will be crowding in on our vegetable garden (about 1000 square feet) and gardening is another major hobby of mine.

Once the snow melts and I can start staking things out, I will see if I can modify my plans (once again) to get the useable space up to 400 square feet. I hate to have to do all the redrawing and the recalculations, but it seems from what I read above that, some day, I will probably thank myself that I did.

I am happy to report that I did come up with a plan revision that adds 80 square feet of floor space and that only costs me about 20 square feet of garden space. My lot shape is strange, so the outline and sitting of the building is not easy. The solution was a T shaped workshop. I am attaching a sketch of the florr plan (finished about an hour ago). I appoogize for the quality of the photo -my scanner seems to have made the grid lines almost as dark as the lines that I have drawn.

I plan to report progress on this building over time. I am doing most of the work myself, so I expect it to take the rest of 2004 (at least).

To put things in perspective and to show how almost any building has to be an improvement, I am also attaching a picture taken about 3 months ago of me in my current basement shop.