My workshop is an old Piggery, but it's been more than 40 years since it saw a  "Gloucester Old Spot" so any  lingering more pleasant odours are the wood or me. It is very spacious and I am spoilt because of this as there is plenty of room to store the logged timbers and to do any preparations necessary prior to putting the blanks etc on the lathe. I have a workshop that has a " lived in" look most of the time, I am always pleased to see the workshop all neat and tidy with tools hung up and the floor hoovered, however it takes no time at all for the place to look like a productive workshop should, piles of shavings and a thin layer of dust. I have a large dust and chipping extractor unit which picks up most of it but some will always escape. If I turn late in the evening I walk back to the house in pitch blackness sometimes listening to the owls, foxes and last week rutting roe deer, it's quite spooky sometimes. Our cats come down and sit outside waiting to see if they can catch a furry sqeaky job that runs around the shop in the late evening, but they won't because they ( the cats) are too well fed. 

The Studio sounds quite grand really, but it really is the converted rear end of our garage, but it has worked really well with its good levels of natural light and a feeling of being surrounded by nature. We have beech and wonderfully scented thuja hedges around our garden which are viewed through the windows tending to give  it a relaxing calm feel. It will be obvious that the studio and workshop are some distance apart probably about 300 metres infact.

Any spelling errors will be corrected shortly and more pictures  added soon