Here is a quick update of where I am on the workshop design. If you remember from my first article, the footings and frost wall already exist so I cannot modify anything with them, but every thing else is fair game.
I am not quite as far along as I had hoped to be at this point with the design, but here is what I have so far. As you can see from the pictures, I have the wall studs up on 3 of the sides. I have to research the rough opening sizes I’ll need for the doors before doing the fourth wall.
I also have one of roof trusses drawn. Actually, I haven’t decided if they will be premade trusses or if I will just build them on site. You can now see what I mean by a center aisle horse barn. The difference here is that my workshop will not be raised on the interior, the raised section will house the second floor.
The next step will be to finish the front walls and the rest of the roof trusses. Then I will start adding the sheeting on the outsides of the walls and drywall on the inside of the walls.






