My shop was just one big 50' x 30' open floor space for many years. Then when my roof leaked and I realized the ceiling was bowing in the middle I knew I had to jack the ceiling back up before I could fix the roof properly because half the problem with the leaks was the way the bowing made the tin roof lift up in places exposing the attic to the elements more than it should have. My shop is the whole reason we bought this home. Its nearly as big as the house and all enclosed because the guy we bought it from used to do some body shop repairs on automobiles. All electrical was done, it was heated with gas when we first moved here but long story short they hooked that up illegally and had unmetered gas running to the shop for years. Once the gas company figured that out after a gas leak was discovered they nixed that deal pretty quick needless to say.
Back to the shop though. I had managed to keep a big picture window, and an old Atrium door that we had replaced when we had Sears do new ones in the house. Glad I did because once I managed to use the front end loader of the tractor and some friends to jack the ceiling back up where it belonged we built walls up and I used that old door and window in the one wall to separate my knife making shop from the parking areas for my old 55 International and another of my four vehicles as well as the mowers and other equipment.
I put the bigger power equipment like my band saw, and my table saw as well as the blasting cabinet and chop off saw out there too to keep the dust from those bigger pieces from getting into my work area. I have the drill press, grinders and milling machine, dremmels, buffers, and sharpeners and stuff like that along with smaller vices and things that I use daily in there with me where I can now stay warm in the winter time.
Made me a propane heater years ago that I used in that 50x30 open space before the remodel and after we lost natural gas. This went on for a long time without hardly noticing it. Now it gets so warm I have to turn it off after a bit. Didn't know it put out so well actually until I closed off the work area. This past winter was the most comfortable winter I've had in the shop ever. Pics aren't that easy to appreciate, but it does the job for me and I don't get so cold I can't work now which was really really nice.
I had enough room after finishing my shop to do one separate for my wife that she can use to strip her antiques and junk finds and do her thing in. I set up her smaller 12" band saw in there along with her dental high speed handpiece that we both use. Both compressors are in my shop area and I ran lines.
Here in the next week or two I'm planning on installing an 8000 BTU A/C in the one wall and an exhaust fan in the other. That should set me up pretty good I think.
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Then I started my "Accidental" paint job on the floor ( I spilled a gallon of latex paint).
Hey, if I keep at it I may even have a completed knife to show! 
