Really proud of how the new shop has turned out. 5 years ago, the wife and I built a house, and I was able to grab a good chunk of the walk out basement. Main shop work area is 20 x 20 with nothing in the middle of that. Builder wanted to put a support pole in the middle of a steel I-beam and I asked how much it would cost to upsize the beam to eliminate the pole. $135. Easy answer.. pole gone. Also, have put a ton of lighting in the main work area. May put more, but the pic you see below will have to do for now. Also, the outlets in the ceiling, you see amongst the lights, are wired on the same circuit as the lights themselves. That way, if I plug anything into them, such as soldering irons, or dremels, the power goes dead to all those outlets when I turn the lights off and leave the shop.

Off the main room is 2 other rooms. A 9 x 14 area, for plane storage, field gear and a secondary work bench. The shelves I built myself out of 2 inch tubular steel. It took quite a bit of head scratching to come up with a system to hold multiple 4x8 sheets of wood only on one side, and make it adjustable.

Last room (which leads on out of the walk out basement, is a dedicated paint room, 11 x 14. Before I finished out the area, I ran a copper pipe from the garage down to the shop, for compressed air, so the noisy compressor can sit up stairs, and I can paint in peace below. After some learning what's needed, I've got 4 vents cut into the interror walls of the paint room, that have removable grills on both sides of the wall. Between these grills, I put filter material, so that clean, climate controled air, is drawn into the room. For the exhausting, I've got 2 ceiling 'fart' fans, and a 16 inch hazardous materials fan exhausting out of the room. As you can see, the fan is mounted with wing nuts, so that when not in use, it can be easily removed, and an insulated cover plate put in place, sealing up the wall, so heat / AC is not lost out of it. All the air in the room is turned over, about every 45 sec to 1 minute... really sweet. I need to impove the lighting a bit yet in here. Thinking about mounting some floresents on the walls, horizintal, about 5 feet high or so... not sure yet tho. Don't have a pic of the paint room itself, just the work area for paint mixing, and the fan, as the room is just an open square.

Anyhow, on with the pics.