Stevo's Playhouse

£10 motion sensor and solar. Not very bright at all, but it is just to be able to see the combination on the padlock. I hate the neighbour's sun light mains powered one that floods the neighbouring gardens every time a fox scratches its arse so was trying to avoid similar. Plus, middle of Lidl "huh, that might be handy" psychology played a large part.

For layout, I really wanted to tray and achieve what I heard Adam Savage refer to as "first order retrieval". Where if you have to move something out of the way to get at a thing, you probably won't use that thing. Little detials like the two folding workmate benches by the vac, they are stacked sideways rather than one in front of the other so I can grab either one. Seems fairly common sense but it's surprising how easy it is to go back to piling stuff up in the most space efficient way rather than the most use efficient way, if that makes sense. Granted, in the above photo, the workbench is in the way of the shelves but it is usually in the middle with clear space around it. Adding more sockets was also another thing, plugging and unplugging meant I was thinking twice about whether or not I could be arsed to use the pillar drill for example and instead just grabbing the cordless and getting poorer results. Proper goal is to move things around again. Current arrangement had only some thought about what was used most but mainly about being able to use everything. As I learn what I use most and where, I can start to re-arrange.

Flat surfaces are something I also wanted lots of to be able to work on things and have plenty of space to set bits down without losing them mid project. But keeping those clutter free is a constant battle. Good thing is though I quite like spending an evening in there with a beer, Youtube on the TV and just pottering and tidying.