The Bedroom Workshop  

Back again. My hats off to people who have their own shop, blog, twitter and sell their stuff and can keep up.  I haven’t learned yet    i would be interested in any and all comments!

Let’s talk about a “Bedroom Workshop”.  :)  
Being single and living in a three bedroom home has advantages. :)   Generally as I have lived here its gets pretty cold from mid December till about the end of March.   Heating an 1800 sq ft pole building is either expensive or you work a lot in the cold.    Last summer was thinking about this and got to thinking about the way we use to do carpenter work when I was young in the 50’s when you didn’t need your house in 90 days..  Back then we would frame in the warm weather and when cold weather came on we moved inside to trim the place out.     My idea then was to build a lot of project carcasses and then finish them up in the house when it got cold.   That meant turning an unused bedroom into a minishop. And that is exactly what I did.   I built a new workbench, sort of a hybrid, from things I have learned from my other three benches I use and the fact that “storage” was important.

I like working with hand tools but not everything.   So I dusted off the old shopsmith I used for sanding and made it and the new bench the focal for the “New bedroom Workshop” :)   And here are the pics of how it looks now.

  I got a room full of stuff to finish.  A lot of it was in the last pics I posted.   So far I love it.  Using hand tools has proved to not to make the space seemed so cramp and I have had to learn and adapt some new techniques.  But day by day I am finishing a project or two.  If I need I can sneak out to the big shop for to do something I can’t accomplish inside.  Now I just have to sell a bunch of it :)

The down side: It’s been mostly warm and in the 50’s this winter :)