Building Our Workshop

Now that we've managed to start collecting some equipment (i.e. our anvil), we needed a place to house it. We pondered lots of different options ranging from full-scale construction of a building to a small mosquito tent and settled on something in between. We are fortunate to have some wonderful family members who have a bit of land and were happy to let us set up a small workshop at the back of their property (thanks P & K!).

This area was basically a meadow, so to prevent sparks from igniting the grass underneath us, we trucked in a bunch of stone-dust to act as the floor of our workshop. Thankfully we had lots of rain during the two weeks it took us to move all of the stone-dust. This helped to pack down the dust so that we didn't have to do it!

The start of our floor.

For the workshop, we opted to keep it simple and put up a basic shade structure. We used fencepost spikes to secure the posts and just ran some roof rafters between the two sides. For right now we've just used a tarp to cover the structure. We're not sure if this is going to work in the long-term, but we can always replace it with something more permanent.

Putting up the posts.

Finishing off the structure.

Since we live in Ottawa, we will have to make some modifications if we want to keep the workshop running in the winter. For the summer and fall, we are going to enjoy our open workshop with a lovely view.

The final workshop.... with nothing in it.