Probably the most therapeutic video I’ve ever watched. I am a 78 year old maker, hobbyist, that always felt guilty for many, many years about my shop. Until today. Now that I’ve and heard your honest shop-talk and tour I am at peace. At times I have felt the same way as you when you said you just wanted to burn that one room. (That gave me goose bumps) The evolving shop is normal? My God I’m normal??? Thank you so much for showing the failed projects, which I also have, and call the “Fairbrother Flaws”. I’m so thankful to have stumbled upon your channel and gotten a new friend. Now I can binge and not cringe, lol.

Hello Laura, A FOOD AS WELL AS A DRINK is a lid from the vintage cocoa powder tin made by British company Rowntree

I feel like regardless of what size a shop is, storing project materials always takes up the most space, and is the hardest to keep organized.

The little grappling hook is actually a bomb disposal tool. If you saw a trip wire from a booby trap, you could throw, snag the wire and set off the explosive from a safe distance. The first producer was EOD Robotics.

Janine's "Outside Office" so simple yet so damn brilliant. I'm using that tomorrow 👍❤️

That light switch is an absolute masterpiece! Thank you for sharing the whole place with us.

I’m so INSPIRED by finding you!! I’m a fifty year old woman who has made and renovated and moved and changed so much stuff in my life! And guess what, I didn’t document it! Thanks so much for this, you make a difference. Can’t wait to see you back and see the progress with the house.

As food as well as a drink: that was COCOA... :) Greetings from Uruguay!!

Awesome. I miss my Dad's workshop. He was a carpenter. I still love the smell of fresh wood. Best smell ever.

It may seem inconsequential to many but hands up to all my people who frothed at the sand paper storage 😍 Thank you for the shop tour and I’m really loving the house build. Your tenacity is contagious.

You say "document your stuff", and I agree. I'd love to see a video about how you document your projects and another on how you organize all your digital files to make finding them efficient.

That light switch is magnificent. I love it.

The tin with 'A food as well as a drink' was for Cocoa Powder 1960's. x

Rowntree's Cocoa - "A food as well as a drink"

Golden sticker opportunity for hoarder corner: Anything Can Be A Grill 😂

The Horse Box looks finished. It has a keg in it, so I'm not sure there's much more to be done.

Inside a person's shop is like . your being in the inside of their thoughts ? Creative energies, potential projects, successes, and the steps it took to get them to be a success.. I find it the best kind of tour ever !!

I love Love LOVE the neon letters, it feels like there will soon be no neon left, and my heart just warmed to see someone caring for them.

Definitely appreciate the honest shop tour! We all can be improving and I am excited to see you new "cool stuff with potential" storage solution.

Idea for your movable clamp storage; see if you can find a school blackboard, the type that can move up and down. You might be able to either use the mechanism of it, or look how it works and imitate it.

A food as well as a drink was the slogan for Rowntree's cocoa in the 60’s

I love the random German banter. Your shop is awesome, thanks for sharing!

You should create an art installation where you use all of your neon letters, combined into a composition that doesn't read as literal words. Instead of keeping everything readable, you could key off the colors and shapes of the neon to form a cohesive visual experience. The letterforms don't even have to be in the correct orientation for reading, you could flip them upside down, put them diagonally or rotated 90°. I think it could even be the kind of thing where you can assemble it in multiple panels, so it's mobile and you can set it up for events and whatnot.

"I don't want to talk about the horse box" new t shirt idea

Have you considered storing by base material? ie metal, plastics, wood, then when you have an idea, and know what base material you're going to work in, you can go and be inspired by what you find in the corresponding area.

As long as you know where to find things, it doesn't matter whether your shop is clean or dirty. It's yours!

"Deep in her heart, Janine is also a maker." 😆 Love the banter between your team! Thanks for showing us your shop

If CNC isn't your thing there's no shame in that. If it doesn't make you happy you don't need it in your life :) Good luck and fun with everything. Your work and attitude are inspiring.

Mixing station is my favorite 😁 Brilliant. Everything is fantastic. Thank you for the inspiration. I’m setting up a shop in my basement with a paint room that I added a ventilation window that partners for airflow with a screen door (rest I added glass block), work table with wall shelves, storage shelves in zones for tools, kits with tools, paper, too. Your storage is phenomenal. Very inspiring. I appreciate the new ideas to help me improve my setup

"My shop is only a mess because I do not have more space!" Yeah... right. Laura's Shop is probably the biggest one I have ever seen and... I guess every shop is a mess, always. We should just make sure that our shops are at least not dangerous and we spend more time making things than looking for things. :D

How many hours does Laura have in her day??? Way more than mere mortals!!! Renovating a house, re-jigging a workshop, making KZfaq videos and creating cool stuff and having a fun life with friends, food, beers and ice cream!! Who else wants to be Laura??? Or at least like her, hard working, creative, funny,....

And I remember watching most, maybe all, of the videos inspired by these projects. Fun to see your appraisal now. Whether they proved themselves or not, the projects were always fun to watch. Carry on !

This isn't just a shop, this is a full blown maker compound! Very cool!

Great to see your shop and workspace, especially because it was an honest tour. And the best part was honest Laura.

supe hyped about the riso printed stuff !! looks awersome when done well. Also great shop tour bringing back memories from both your and our personnal journey making stuff. Thank you !!

Very impressive!! More of a "compound" than just a workshop. I love the outside area, very cool! Thanks for sharing it with us!😄😄

I really look forward to seeing you organize the rest of your shop!!! That would be an amazing project!

For my first Father's Day my wife gave me a Leatherman Supertool. I still have it 24 years later, and most days you'll find it on my right hip.

Love the organisation of the equipment and especially the light switches

Wow Laura what an awesome shop, thanks for giving us an honest tour! Love seeing how the organisation and retrieval of your potential is made 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Thanks for the tour - it was really good to have a look around. I'm with you 100% on the old neon signs, too.

I loved this tour of your space. I'm an artist and absolutely love seeing how other people store their stuff. You are such aa happy and joy filled person and I'm so glad to find your channel.

Thanks for the tour! I love your shop, even the messy parts. OMG, I'd love to have a go in you CNC room! I'm drooling over all your tools! I enjoyed this video soooo much! 😍I'm looking forward to future renovations ... or just anything you do.

Perfect Sunday afternoon viewing, highly enjoyable thanks Laura, Felix and friends.

I love how creative are your creation, it's really amazing !

This is incredible, thanks for sharing

Thanks! Terrific shop tour with ideas and discussions.

I'm in love! Your shop is a dream! I wish I had the space you have. I like your storage area, you have a lot of neat stuff!

Laura, I feel you on the the "hoarding," but I prefer to think of it as "resource collection." I just finished building a tiny studio for a local music venue, which was built with 95% scraps I saved from the constrcution of my home. In order to create using reuse materials, it must first be captured and stored. Don't be too hard on yourself about the disarray. It is hard to construct storage for rotating stock of different shapes and sizes. But, I look forward to what you come up with.

What a great shop! I only wish that I had that much room, but that is another story for sure. The part that I truly enjoyed though is your light switch, that is something I've never seen and it simply puts a smile on my face.... somehow have to find one for myself HA! Thanks for sharing, and can't wait to see future videos!

👏Tellement organisée ! Bravo pour l’ensemble des projets et l’atelier 👏👏👏

Thanks for the tour Laura. Great maker spaces

What a wealth of riches you have with your shop! All that space, so many, many tools and materials-truly my ideal environment. 🌿

The drill index anchored to the wall with the handle is sheer genius.

A wonderful workshop tour. Thanks

Excellent tour and it's great that you show what works and what doesn't, both with storage and projects. I always feel you learn more when something doesn't work or you have hiccups along the way to success. Thanks and keep up the good work. Love my Leatherman Wave, it's so useful.

Love a good honest workshop tour! Oh what I would do to have that kind of space to make stuff, right now all the ideas live on paper but someday they will be made real (I hope)

Thank you so much for this authentic and honest tour. I believe that this honesty regarding imperfection and all what's not going like we would wish it to encourages peoples to love not just the perfect part of others and themselves but the whole person. So, cheers to life! And cheers to you all!

Aww the little neon room, how nice of you to rescue these old tubes!

Love love love that power switch!

I loved this whole video, especially embracing the multi-part map on the side including the carpet, and all the marker squiggles as part of the graphics. So much content is just here is the perfect, the flawless; you embrace the "didn't go as planned" with such grace and joy at the discovery. Your enthusiasm is wonderful and always makes me smile. Thank you for sharing all of this with us!

Thanks for the shop tour Laura.

What a great space I dream of a “shop like space” for my art studio. Love you creative life style. Thanks for sharing it.

I hope you are enjoying your well deserved vacation. I am ultra jealous of your shop and compound. Reminds me of my grandpa's farm when I was a kid.

Whether shop materials, or sewing rooms, art supplies, baking supplies - all need specialized storage solutions, that's for sure. I admire and take inspiration from all the projects you have taken on to make your shop more convenient and useful in your work. All the best to you Laura as you work on your home as well!

great tour! thanks for the honesty!

So much space ! Thanks for the tour

Hi, thats interesting - You also use emulgated Ballistol/Water as a cutting fluid. I first did that 50 years ago, when i built rc-parts from metal and i did not have professional cutting-fluid. But it turned out, that it works perfect with all metals i ever drilled. Greets from munich!

That was a fantastic tour! I really love all your work stations. I think I would just live in your shop, it's so nice. I appreciate meeting another human who collects things of beauty, interest and usefulness, but then has storage problems. Thank goodness I collect smaller things than you, so my storage challenges are not so difficult.... yet. Thank you for the 'honest' tour of your space! Work shops are not supposed to be neat and tidy, they are supposed to look like you're working on projects. A neat and tidy work shop means you are not working. (this is what I tell myself when I look around at the sea of stuff I'm fiddling with)

Thanks for the tour! Thumbs up. And we're all looking forward to some colab videos with a certain Swedish person...!

When you are mass producing the same product there is some hope of a relatively neat shop. When you are doing different projects, some at the same time, the most you can hope for is to be able to locate the tools and materials required. The 20% of always used tools will probably be nearby but the 80% of sometimes used tools will be an Easter egg hunt. Then making storage items visible can sometimes help cuz locating them requires looking around the shop rather than unearthing them from the pile of closed doors and lids. Because they are visible you will see them often even when not looking for them so your memory should be triggered when the tool or material is required. Multiple workers makes the challenge greater since everyone works differently.

Thankyou for talking about the importance of documentation of projects and ideas and everything, it goes for so many fields of work

So much progress since 6 years ago, I've been following since you first started.

You should sell all of the CNC, because you don’t want to use it and it’s claiming space. Then, put all of your sponsor shop shelving in there and make it look like a store. Counter, some random cash register, a massive catalogue on a swivel holder… Make it look like a general store/auto store, from a few decades ago.

This is the stuff dreams are made of. Your shop is the coolest.

A Food That is a Drink- Smoothie. I enjoy your channel and your enthusiasm for every project and your pure joy when it works just like you imagined.💗

Laura, you are such a nice person, and never stops to inspire me as a fellow maker. Love from Amsterdam

From an industrial engineering perspective regarding your storage, you should consider using shelving at ninety degrees to the wall you currently use. Stack each shelf heavy at the bottom light at the top, and try to maintain like items together, If it’s deep storage, this system will enable more shelving to be progressively added as needed and still allow space to move.

Sweet Sewing Room! With the gear you have you can make some awesome shade awnings to cut the heat in summer.

Love that light switch. I want one!

I get the key of my first shop in 4 weeks and I can't wait!! This is some good inspiration. ❤️

Thank you for everyone who answered the riddle!! Lol, very nice shop Laura... I wish you were my neighbor, I could take care of your garden and setup the sewing room, in exchange for letting me use your shop every now and then, I dabble in DIY but mostly building things for my overflowing balcony garden and overflowing sewing desk.

I joined during the house project and didn’t explore your history being fully satisfied with that present. I am completely floored!! It’s like finding a treasure trove that is only partially revealed!

That was a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing. The CNC could be really useful but I guess that it needs quite some time to get into the software side of it.

Lovely video. Hope you are having a great vacation.

Love the honesty.

Loved the video! It would be great to see the lathe used and maybe a video when you organize the storage area

I've sorted storage areas in my current/past jobs at times and I've never really found a one-fits-all system. It's something nuanced that won't fit every scenario it's even being used for anyway. The thing well all do a bit wrong if we're not careful is not taking the time once we've sorted everything to keep it tidy. That stuff snowballs so hard

Antique Vintage Rowntree Tin Box "a food as well as a drink" Cocoa Powder 1960's. Your exact tin is on eBay!

Very cool shop tour, nice video... Thanks for showing the world

Nice shop! After years of watching, I still don't know what you do, but it's nice to see your storage solutions. I only have a single car garage and it looks like your CNC room except with more sawdust.

I love your connection with Leatherman from my hometown which may mean you’ve traveled here!? To see all that neon lit up on your shop property one day would be so great. Thanks for the honest tour. 😀

immer und immer DEINE WERKBUDEN SIND KUNSTWERKE soooo viel krativität und fachwissen an einem OrT. wunderbar laura. danke fürs mitnehmen🤗👍💥

hi you were working on your talents and now , wow , really fine work and thanks really great ! Judy

Great shop and great tour, keep up the good work.

Thanks Laura, that was extra fun.

Very cool. Thanks for sharing!

I liked the shop tour and noticed that I unfortunately missed the video about the construction of the two sandpaper holders, I think they're super amazing.

Risograph printing is AWESOME!!!! You could make some sweet Merch with it.

Awesome video, loved it! Thanks for sharing.