OK, time for me to put up or shut up.
Pardon the untidiness... these photos were taken during construction. I can assure you it is much worse now.
This is my workshop, just after it was built and finished. There are now cement stepping stones from the back door of my house out to the shop, and some steps. Just to the right of the door my older daughter put up a frame thing with some roses now climbing on it. Really. I told her it ruins the "mancave" effect, but does she listen? No.
(Tired, hot, the electricity not yet hooked up.)
The building is wired with 230 vac coming through a buried pvc conduit from the house and wired into the main breaker box. There is a breaker box in the shop with 5 circuits. One is 230 vac for the air conditioner/heater unit. There are two 115 vac circuits for the workbench. One breaker feeds the first and third (white) outlets. Another breaker feeds the second and fourth (tan) outlets along the workbench. That way, wherever you are working and tools plugged into adjacent outlets, they are plugged into separate circuits and spreading the load. A fourth circuit breaker feeds the other outlets around the shop, plus one weatherproof outlet outside (for weedeater, other tools). All of these outlets are Ground Fault Interrupt types. A fifth circuit breaker feeds some outlets near the ceiling where the fluorescent lights are plugged in.
There is also a phone in the shop.
The walls are insulated with Dow pink styrofoam. I just could not bring myself to handle fiberglass. The foam pieces were measured and cut to force fit between the studs. 3/8" OSB (chipboard) was put up with drywall screws, and painted with 2 coats of waterbased Kilz, followed by a coat of semigloss offwhite latex paint.
The workbench is 16 feet long, 40" high, 30" deep. It was assembled with Simpson Strongtie Connectors, no nails. There are two layers of plywood on the top, with carpenter's glue in between, and drywall screws holding them together. The screws were driven below flush, then spackled over and sanded. That mades for a solid surface for mounting the vise.
My daughters put vinyl tile on the floor and used the same tile on the top of the plywood on the workbench. :thmbsp:
Leftover ply from the top went toward making shelves underneath.
There is also a 5" vise, Ryobi bench grinder, and a Ryobi 12" drill press. I hope to soon add a mini-lathe.
And most importantly, a man has to have some tunes to listen to. Especially me. I have lots of SaxRax customers, mostly pros, who send me their CD's. So, it is important that I be able to say, "Hey, man... I really liked the third track on the CD you sent me!" So, for that reason I have an Onkyo TX-906 receiver, Onkyo DX-C340 CD changer, and a pair of Optimus Pro-X55AV speakers. They also serve to be able to test tuners, receivers, and other gear I work on out there.