the ideal Shedio - gimme your thoughts :)

[flaming beads]

Some really good suggestions there Gordon..thankyou

[Krysia@No98]

I suspect the next thing is blooming obvious with hot glass, but in electronics engineering designers often give us carpets. Bad idea in both worlds, I think. A smooth floor is pretty easily cleared of stuff like glass flakes, bits of wire and so on. Any texture just makes cleaning difficult. Carpets obviously also smoke and/or burn.  For comfort wear trainers or similar.

It's funny that you should mention the floor, at college in the section with the jewellery benches they have put down a grey floor with little silvery sparkly bits in it.  Now as you can imagine the air turns blue when ever you drop anything.  Lets look for the lump of silver on the pale grey/marl floor with the silvery sparkly bits in it...

... clearly that wasn't thought through or was planned by some one that has never made jewellery

[GordonS]

I am trying to think of ways to fit in 2 heights of worktop

A pull-out desk under the workbench (maybe on runners with something to lock it out?) may work provided it's protected from droppped dangers.

If you use a computer there, a closed laptop would push under with the desk, though opening and closing laptops frequently usually breaks the hinges after just a couple or so years :-(  You may want to anchor cables so they can't snag and break things or pull the laptop off of the desk!

Getting multiple chairs tidily out of the way can be a nuisance.

Gordon.

[Krysia@No98]

For me personally, the problem with closing my laptop would be that then it goes to sleep and it can't play music/talking books when it's asleep...

[clasicat]

A comfy chair for me to sit in so I can come and say hello to my ex- bob-cat ;-) 

[dinah46]

A comfy chair for me to sit in so I can come and say hello to my ex- bob-cat ;-) 

I'm sure that could be managed

[♥♥Tan♥♥]

  You crack me up

[elburnzo]

I suspect the next thing is blooming obvious with hot glass, but in electronics engineering designers often give us carpets. Bad idea in both worlds, I think. A smooth floor is pretty easily cleared of stuff like glass flakes, bits of wire and so on. Any texture just makes cleaning difficult. Carpets obviously also smoke and/or burn.  For comfort wear trainers or similar.

It's funny that you should mention the floor, at college in the section with the jewellery benches they have put down a grey floor with little silvery sparkly bits in it.  Now as you can imagine the air turns blue when ever you drop anything.  Lets look for the lump of silver on the pale grey/marl floor with the silvery sparkly bits in it...

... clearly that wasn't thought through or was planned by some one that has never made jewellery

Maybe they just didnt want the dirt/discarded silver to show up lol saves on cleaners wages

[Krysia@No98]

he he he, again not though that one through, Student's aren't renound for having copious amounts of cash to splash out on silver so if they drop it they are going to keep looking 'til they find it!

[elburnzo]

lol well maybe they wanted to make you work for your silver then 

[Krysia@No98]

  much more likely

[TracyJayne]

Thought I would bump this as my new super dooper shedio is built and the sparky is coming early next week to hook me up, then I have the exciting task of kitting it all out storage wise.  I am planning on the worktops being kitchen cupboard height as that is where I work at the moment, on top of the hob!  Feeling a visit to Ikea coming up in the very near future!

Does anyone have any other inspirational tips for setting up?  Would I be better off with kitchen cabinets or open shelves?  The shedio is for all my craft stuff, glass, cards, scrapbook and jewellery, plus whatever else I might like the look of in the future,   

The shed is a log cabin type, 45 mm walls and we have insulated underneath the floor, do you think I will need to insulate the roof too?  It is about 2.5m square, the shed is actually 2.5m x 3.5m, but hubby insisted on separating it so there is somewhere to keep the bikes and garden tools, so it is a 2 roomed shedio! I am planning a space so that I can upgrade to a big girl's torch and oxycon at some point, but don't tell hubby that!

Thanks in advance!

[Black Heart Beads]

If you are keeping a mix of craft stuff I would have a combo of cabinets and shelves. Shelves close to your work bench for all the glass bits you will need to get your hands on whilst melting and Cabinets for you other craft bits so they don't gather to much dust 

[Helen G]

I've got a combination of kitchen cupboards and drawers which works well. A couple of the drawer units are for pots and pans and they are good because it's easier to see the contents than rummaging in the back of a cupboard, wish I'd put in more of those 

[Dizzy Di]

Alarm clock
I was always late for everything even forgetting to collect youngest from school once
I have used a kitchen counter on top of £2 Ikea legs(curry table legs) for my benches / desks/ everything its cheap and easily moved, wanted to save money for glass and glass toys

Dianne