
One car garage woodshop layout. Garage into a smoothly running shop. A one car garage dream shop. Through clever use of mobile bases and sensible organization all major machines are stored and fully functional in this small space. I am going to built up a woodshop.
Illustration by james provost so you dont have a double car garage a huge basement or an airplane hangar in your backyard for shop space and youre really thinking its not feasible to get a decent shop set up in anything smaller. After two years of woodworking my husband finally takes me seriously and he is going to help me strip our little one car garage out tomorrow so i can finally truly set up shop. Wow i am modeling my shop after your layout. Welcome to my 2017 woodshop tour.
So i think i found you at the right time. In idea shop 1 we turned a 14x28 outbuilding into a serious woodworking shop working from the concept that everything was more or less permanentbut we know that many home woodworkers have their shop in a garage usually occupied by a vehicle or two. 12 shop layout tips article january 16 2014. Photos by rob brown.
One car garage shop when we designed the shop you see here we wanted to create a full featured shop in a compact space. I am going to use the photos that you posted on your homepage as my dream setup plan. Fine woodworking editor matthew teague has endured more than his fair share of unworkable shop spaces so when he could call a one car garage his own it was heaven. So we took a standard 24x24 double car garage and designed the space to accommodate both a woodworking shop and the family transportation.
Click on the images for a larger view and if anything is unclear ask a question in the comments field. And if youre just now setting up your first woodshop this shop layout should give you a great starting point. My shop is a one car garage 23 x 13 which poses a real problem when it comes to workflow and tool positioning. Check my instagram for updates atweberwoodshop here is a list of links that i will add to as people request them.
We started with a third stall of a 3 car garage a feature found in many newer homes. Heres how he turned a 160 sq ft.