My Small and Efficient workshop (2 x 3 meter) - 2019 Shop tour 

Finally found a video about small shop 😂. Not many people have a luxury of the whole garage turn into woodworking shop.

I bought this for my friend for his birthday as we just moved into a new house and he finally has room for a workshop. The bench was very easy to set up ru-vid.comUgkxyFZUPFEey-PuqsPMxqaykBhgA1LWxFHh They center support is a little difficult to snap in and out of place at first but at least then we know the bench is secure. It was a pleasant surprise when we saw it came with clamps. I apparently missed that in the description. My friend loves the versatility of the bench. Great starter bench for his workshop and easily transportable all over our property. I wish the bench was a little taller but the other features of the bench more than make up for that.

Very inspiring! It really shows that you can have a very versatile workshop in a tiny space, and I like your pointing out that "for 99% of the time it works". That's really key to realise not to make a big effort for something that's of little (rare) use later on. Thanks for sharing! Subscribed. 👍

Yup, you’re a practical person alright! Congrats for not losing your mind making this tiny space workable. You’re an inspiration! Please keep up the madness of fitting everything in its proper space, we need such determination to encourage one another in the real world of space! 👍🏻

Great things, to us come from small places, we think this as small spaces makers, it works for us. Thank you for sharing this fine place. Lance & Patrick.

Consider storing sheet goods on a shelf below the workbench/assembly table. It will make the table heavier and keep them out of the way. Great shop!

I love shop tours. I usually find idea worth exploring in my little shop. Thanks for taking time to show us around.

I’m currently re-organising my 2.2m x 5m workshop and suddenly it feels quite big 😀 Great tour, and lots of really helpful ideas I’ll be able to use; thank you!

thanks for sharing and shop looks great. I just finished my shop/shed and is same size as yours. ran underground elec yesterday and insulating next week. I do similar projects as I am a hobbyist woodworker/metal fabricator. No tools in at moment but have a lathe, drill press, mig, table saw, mitre saw, band saw and other smaller tools. Built 2 shed's this summer, a "he shed" and a "she shed" (slightly smaller for wife's gardening tools). Just here looking for ideas.

Wow, really impressive. I'm not sure I can replicate what you did as I have a lot windows in my workshop but you’ve certainly given me a lot of good ideas.

A great example of a well set out small workshop. Inspires me to sort my own workshop out. Thanks for sharing.

A great little space. Thanks for showing us around.

Brilliant little work space, and you have made the absolute best use of what limited room you have. Respect.👍

Excellent video. Just setting my small workshop up. Got my benches made and in. That’s it so far. Some great ideas. Thank you.👍

My shop is probably the same or smaller, so it's awesome to see how you've maximized the space - definitely has be thinking about how I can reorganize mine!

I like your shops layout clean and tidy! I also like first order retrievability, you make great use of it!

Cheers for the tour of your well thought out workshop. Regarding the sheet storage - you could build a rig on the roof that lowers with pulleys and still houses your lights. You could potentially have 200mm or so up there, depending on how much support is already in place for the roof and how much headspace you need. Starjumps would be out of the question.

I have just finished the exterior of my own 3x2M workshop and have been looking to get the most from my space. This video helps, many thanks 👍 I have built external timber storage on the hidden sides of my workshop so I can store materials outside of my working area

thanks man i am in the same boat. just moved and build a w/s same size as yours mated to an existing 6x4 shed so its an empty shell atm, just finished the floor and put the sparks in. i used clear polycabonate roof to let in lots of light and used 3 led 3' batton lights thank gr8 vid

New sub, I like this video. I had for 26 years a 10X10 ft. shed for my shop, I even had a motorcycle lift inside for the winter months. I made it work, I bought a house in Tennessee and now I am working on utilizing a 28X25 shop that came with the house. I have so much room now that I am trying to work on utilizing the space that I didn't have. I like some of the ideas that you have. Great video

I have a 15 foot by 10 foot timber workshop with a central wall halfway for the wifes stuff.i have a mini lathe mini mill on worktop down one side and drill press, bandsaw, vice,bench grinder down the other with air compressor and other storage underneath but not anywhere near as organized as yours.looking at what you have done motivated me to get organized

I am impressed Well done. I took some ideas from you. The place is amazing and your explanations are great thanks.

Cool what you can accomplish in such a small shop. Mahalo for sharing! : )

Just in the process of setting up my 12x10ft shop. Nice to find a realistic presentation by a regular Joe. Well done for showing your errors and for admitting you are always learning. Will be following, great vid.

Great job. Finally a shop that works in the amount of space I have. Also love your dry sense of humor.

Awesome workshop! I’m 15 and have one just the same size! A little complicated as i am a motorcycle and bicycle enthusiast and it does get a little cramped sometimes but with only one workbench on one side it works just fine for me. Thanks for sharing and please update when you do any modifications to it and keep up the good videos!

Hello from Arkansas USA. Like your video, lighting and sound is very good. I recently moved out of a 30ftx60ft work shop into a 10ftx20ft work shop. I had to research and design a lot of space saving remedies. Let me suggest that build a flip top bench and mount your sander on one side and the drill press on the other. I actually made a 3 sided flip top mobile bench. Like a pyramid that rotates with a tool on each flat surface. For storing my sheets a wood I made a drop down rack on the ceiling that's hold two or three sheets of plywood and I don't bump my head on it, however it's hard to get them up there especially with no help. I will send pics of my shop if your interested but im not a photographer and pics don't do it justice.

Very helpful video. I'm about to get a 6' x 12' shed, which will be my workshop and bike storage, so this is very helpful. I like the fact your shed isn't perfect - very utilitarian, using resourceful ideas rather than just running down to the local DIY hardware store and splashing out £2,000 (or Euros, dollars!) on mass-produced solutions. It's also good to see that you have made mistakes and point these out.

What a great video im very impressed by your workshop ! Im in the process of creating a workshop in a shed that i have built and you have inspired me to find ways to use the space well !

Awesome timing, I’m planning a shop tour this Thursday :D. Your small workshop is as organised and awesome as I expected! :)

Great enthusiasm and brilliant use of a small space. way to go dude.

Well thought out given the very small space you have. Some good ideas for all shops. Thank you

Exactly the same dimentions that I have for my tool room, you give me a lot of ideas on how to organize the space, good video, thanks

Another advantage to clear, project boxes is as reminder to finish the project or get rid of it. Great job.

This is impressive and inspiring. My shop is small (but not this small) and I’ve been constantly struggling with the way I have it setup. You’ve given me a ton of great solutions I’m going to think about and start implementing. Thanks for this video.

I am a woodworker and have a same size shop here! I made a rack above my head for storage of long boards. The lighting you have looks great but takes up alot of space (imho). I use the small led bars from the Action which I can stick 20 of in total. They give alot of light. Nice organizing so far Emiel 👍

i also have a small working space but needs development! Thanks for sharing your shop tour. Just gave me a great idea for my workshop.

However much space you have its never enough, so you just have to make the most of what you have.

Dude that is awesome use of space, I have no room in my garage so I'm thinking of getting a 7x7 shed, you gave me some great ideas. Well done!

Thanks, you have a loot in a small shop! I need to have a think about the sheet material storage!

Great workshop, a lot of great ideas there👍👍

Thanks, I’m pleased and excited to say I’m getting a shed which will become MY workshop. Currently I share the garage with my husband, not great 😕. My shed will be 8’x6’ or 🤞🏻9’x6’ so your film was very useful. Your English is fantastic too. I don’t have a lathe but do have a table saw and mitre saw. So they cancel each other out.

I like ur setup. Up here in Canada we have cold winters and I dont have a garage so my shed is set up to be very functional and organized to easily grab tools I use the most.

Great workshop buddy very impressive, nice layout, nice tools and great storage solutions. Keep up the top work

Absolutely amazing build!! Just got a 6ft x 8ft shed myself and looking t ok make it a functioning storage/workshop for my bike build! Great tips here - thanks!

Amazing shop. Clever ideas. You have shown that a lot can be done with minimal size tools.

Idea for sheet storage, create a weatherproof/watertight slide in/out section down the side of the shed. You can even put the whole storage thing on a frame with wheels to slide it in and out. Keeps it out of the way but nearby and can be up to the size of one side of your shed, thickness dependent upon space. Alternatively you can do a pulley system and have it drop down from the ceiling but would require putting your lights on the underside and I personally wouldn't like having the weight of lots of sheets of steel/wood above my head all of the time :P

Great shop, great share! You got a fresh sub 😁 I have a shared tiny shop- 1/2 of a 4x4m space with no headroom, so I'm taking notes! For the sheet storage- my best suggestion would be to tuck it against the wall behind a wheeled power tool (your bandsaw cart v2 0?) It seems that if the sheet goods weren't there you could swing it out to access material, then swing it back again. Heck, you could build a sheet rack onto the back of said cart, and pull the material out with the cart! Best of luck on all improvements. Looking forward to more crazy inventions and practical improvements!

Cool to see how you organized your shop. It gives me ideas for mine, mainly that I am probably just not that organized. Thanks for sharing!

I like your use of space. I do not know what your outside situation is like, but I had once a tiny workspace and needed places for sheet materials. What I did, was, on the outside on one wall, I built a 2foot wide lean-to 13 feet long as my shop was only 14 feet long. on one end I had full 4 x 8 sheets and on the other end I had half sheets and under. Small roof, solid floor and covered walls with a door on each end. Never lost any wood to weather. It worked for me for many years. Thanks for sharing your video.

Great video and ideas for small spaces. I have basically one-half of this area and can incorporate some of your ideas. Especially like the master switch as I frequently use soldering irons and power supplies which are easy to forget to unplug when done for the night

Man i am impressed. i have a small workshop too and spacing everything is a complete nightmare, but its getting there. However your use of space is beyond my comprehension. I applaud you. That's quite a genius approach you have taken. For storing sheet goods, you need two things... 1) shop floor footprint, and 2) access. I would say you definitely have the shop floor footprint. Sheet goods take up hardly any space on the ground if you store them upright. If you store them the way you stored the sticks and things, i.e. against the wall behind the benches and tools you can store quite a lot. But getting them in there and out of there would be a hassle because you have to lift them up against the wall and over the benches and tools. It might clash with stuff you have hanging on the wall. Hence i have two ideas for access. Either you can store them against the wall behind benches and build an access from outside the workshop. Or the other solution would be to create sheet storage under the floor with the access point at the door. So when you open the door you step up to your new shop floor by 100mm and you have room for say 50mm of sheet storage you can slide out at the door. Admittedly this route requires you to clear out your workshop and build a false floor. But since you are crazy organised already and everything is in boxes and such, AND since your shop is very small, you might be able to knock out the entire floor in a day and have everything moved back in. measuring and precutting everything ahead of time would help speed this up. one massive benefit of this system is that the sheet goods are stored flat so they wont warp. and if you want to store larger quantities or organise them by type, you could build four compartments each 50mm high and build 4 access points from outside, at the same height, around the 4 walls. then you can have a compartment for plywood, MDF, chipboard and miscellaneous wood products. but i really am amazed with what you have been able to get into your shop.

Fantastic space 👏👏 all the best rob

Wonderful example of making due with what you have, but also a reminder that you don't need a big space to be creative and build something!

Great video. Given me a few ideas. Many thanks.

Great setup mate. Glad to see that small space can be used so efficiently

Great video. Thanks for posting.

Mann Great organisation and very sleek workshop

Love your workshop! 👍

Thanks for the great ideas. I am trying to reduce my workshop also and you have loads of very praktisch things. Keep up the great videos.

Really enjoyed ur video just what I was looking to see for ideas

Awesome shop! Thanks for sharing (subscribed). If I had a space like yours, I’d make a new door, 6” or 8” deep (like a box) but the side facing your shop would be open so you could store your plywood sheets

Subscribed at once!! Nice work, man!!!

Hi Emiel, Thanks for the tour! Creative solutions are quicker found in small workshops then in a shop with tons of space. On this side of the screen a similar sized shop space. Subscribers +1 !!

I’m building a small workshop about the same six and this was so helpful thank you🙌🙌👍👍👍👍👍

My work shop is about 7ft long by 5ft wide by 6ft tall so every inch of space has to be used in a productive way, I'll be making that tool rack you spoke about in the beginning thanks.

hi mate, love the video. i'm probably constructing a similar workshop in the near future for myself. Simply to reserve some space where i can work and keep my tools, compared to just random spots in the shed like right now. What i was thinking for myself was using the 'french cleat' system. This will allow me to make dedicated storage for anything and everything, but will also allow me to move things around depending on what i'm working on. So if ill be using my circular saw in a project often, i can move it closer. Maybe that is something you could implement too instead of fixing everything to the wall with screws.

You have a wonderful workshop. clean and everything is nearby

Impressive little shop. I imagine easy to heat in winter too. A suggestion to solve the problem with the position of your vice - you could install 2 strips of aluminium or steel slotted channel into your bench top and attached the vice to them using bolts and Tee nuts. When you need to clamp something long vertically in the vice, the bolts could be loosened and the vice temporarily moved further forward on the bench top and tightened down. Once finished, the vice can be loosened and moved back to it's normal position out of the way. Great video, thanks for sharing.

Man i think your shop is awesome, i have a small shed with the same struggles, i started woodworking about 2 years ago and am always trying to make the space work

Thank you for posting this video. I'm moving into a workshop that is roughly 4m x 5m and so I need some ideas for a smaller workshop. You did a great job on this.

Excellent! Thank you for the great ideas 👍🍻

Cool you have used your space well

Great video. Keep up the good work thanks 😊

*Excellent workshop 🥺*

Thanks for posting this. It helps even if you have a big shop.

Thank you so much for this.

Great video and very well thought through workshop organization. I'll definitely borrow many of excellent and very useful ideas shown in the video. I never thought such a tiny workshop can fit that many machinery, and still be convenient to work in. A thing that might improve your workshop is powerful ventilation (not something fancy, just another cheap but practical solution). It looks like this place can get very dusty in short time, or the air can get stuffy. Ventilation could help in those cases.

So nice and tidy

Making the best of limited space . Great vid . Thanks fella .

Wow cheers for your advise.

Awesome tour

Awesome shop!

Cool and inspiring, thanks I enjoyed it 👌👍

Perfect desine

Love your content and your workshop

Hey man that’s awesome. I really love your shop!

Fantastic. It make me jealous

This is great! Makes a change from all the American guys with their gigantic triple garages. I have a 10x6' shed on the way and although I also have to store some garden stuff in there, this makes me think I might also be able to squeeze a little work area in too. Thank you for sharing.

You have a good vibe dude

Old video but it makes a change from look at my small workshop and you find its 100ft+. Larger than the footprint of my house/garden etc. Some places space is cheap but in a major city every inch costs a lot. Thanks.

Well laid out. Very tidy. I keep a box of cheap latex gloves next to the paper roll - handy for when using glues and paints.

Awesome video going to use some ideas on how to save space in a small area I have a 10 x 8 shed I've tried to convert.

awesome workshop . very small and very clean and very managed. love from Pakistan

Awesome little shop! I’ll be building one soon as well probably 15’x9’ or so

Great use of the limited space you have. I've built a little workshop above my garage and because of the apex roof I keep banging my head. If i were you I would seriously think about getting a small Co2 fire extinguisher with all that wood in there.

I'm am doing this with three small metal buildings that will be off grid, and insulated. One for woodwork, one for metal work and one for electronics and assembly. I believe that this will help me save energy and heat/cool much more efficiently. And also I can manage dust much better. I'm thinking of converting my bench tools with dc motors allowing me to use cordless batteries throughout. Ofcourse my welder will still require 120v ac through an inverter.

For the plywood you can make a holder and have it flat against the wall.

Very handy little Shop👍

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