What was your best way to save space in your shop?

Two car garage here.

Build rolling cabinets and work benches that let you rearrange your shop.

Go vertical. Always go vertical.

Your roll up garage door can hold story sticks, 3rd Hand poles, track saw tracks, and anything else that is thin and lightweight.

Mount unused but not particularly heavy equipment overhead. I mounted strong bar magnets (IKEA kitchen knife holders) on to a sheet of plywood, which I then screwed into joists in the ceiling. I then bolted and epoxied a sheet of thin metal to the underside of my shop vac. I can lift the shop vac over my head (make sure you empty it) and the shop vac clamps on to the magnets when I'm not using it. I made some brackets to wrap cords around that have a strip of metal on them. Those also clamp on to magnets in the ceiling when not in use.

Cord reels for power. One on either side of the shop.

Extendable dust hose.

Under bench storage. Lots of under bench storage. Aluminium L-strips screwed into the cubby holes let you put Stanley storage boxes on their own rails, and the aluminium is cheap.

A fold-down table saw that stores vertically.

A fold-down full sized router table that stores vertically.

Fold down CNC large format CNC.

Fold down workbenches that detach from the wall.

Black & Decker workmates stored on the backs of cabinets and on vacant wall space.

Double hinge doors on cabinets that store hand tools.

Swing out tool slings for cordless tools.

Charging docks for all cordless tool batteries mounted under the bench.

4' long power strips mounted under the edges of a bench.

Spice drawer flip down

Flip up workbench wings on every storage cabinet and work bench, e.g. the 3D printers, the new laser cutter cabinet,

Flip up out feed tables on both table saws, the large format CNC, the small format CNC, the thickness planer, the wide belt sander, the band saw, the router tables.

A box around my JET dust collector that also holds extra hoses, cleaning attachments, a dust cyclone, extra plastic bags. A slide out cubby underneath holds an extra (cheap) shop vac for those seriously nasty cleanup jobs when water leaks everywhere or something goes wrong in the household plumbing.

Stanley storage boxes, with dedicated storage under one of the work benchs to organize all the components a shop needs.

My 14' x 19' two car garage shares space with a washer & dryer, an upright freezer, two CostCo racks of food, and an enormous Konica Minolta document center that will swallow several boxes of printer paper and still ask for more.

You can squeeze a lot in to 200-ish sqft, if you plan accordingly.

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