Designing Your Workspace
The space that I work in is extremely important to me. It’s a space that I need to feel comfortable and creative in. This is where I transform rough timber into furniture and projects. It has to be personal. It has to be my space.
Size isn’t everything
Over the years I’ve moved and lived in different places, so I have experience assembling and disassembling my shop. I’ve also been fortunate to teach around the globe, which means I’ve worked in many different shops. Spaces have been from as large as 200m² to as small as 3m² and I can assure you that bigger is not necessarily better in my eyes. To begin with, you have further to walk to retrieve a tool and if you are middle-aged like me, you may very well forget what you set off to get halfway to arriving there.
Some workshops I’ve worked in have been machine and power tool focused, and others have had nothing but lights using the power grid. A great many of them were shops
