Glider workshop question

[Hoot]

I got off my rear and sold my small condo and bought a house. Now I can have a full blown model workshop inside the house. (Air conditioning in the summer and heat in the winter.... Yipeeee ! )

The house has an extra room upstairs, not a bedroom, that is only eight feet by seven feet. I can't decide if this room is big enough to turn into a glider workshop.

I want enough room to have a nice workbench and an area that has my scroll saw, drill press, grinder, etc.
I'm trying to decide if I should run two benches or table tops along two ajoining walls, in an 'L' shape or if I should build a bench in the middle of the room.

Does anybody have any suggestions for a table with a flat top?

I really don't want to turn one of the other larger bedrooms into a model shop because I want to tile the floor of the model room for easier cleanup.
What are most of you doing for a model building area?
S Gibson

[TJTucson]

Hoot - I use a smaller drafting table to work off of for my planes. You can see it under the Sierra build thread here under Thermal. I just have to be creative with space and stay organized. That's really the toughest part - Organized. :D

Tracy

[WGH]

Could get a little loopy from fumes working in a space that small, you may want to consider a good exhaust fan.

[dephela]

I use two tables. One is high enough to stand at, heavy, rugged with a solid door on top. On the wwall in front aremost all the tools used in a building session. On the other side of the building room[11x14] is another door at a lower level and lots of drawers holding "stuff". A small 3x3 table "floats" around the room as needed for cutting foam, holding projects...

On one end is shelving to hold hardware, on the other shelves to hold long boxes full of monocote etc. Another set of shelves is next to the high bench and has all the wood.

Outside this room is where all the planes, winches, batteries, radios, chargers etc stays.

It's been working for me and has stayed neat for the past 20 years.

[mhmitchell]

Kitchen countertops come in any length. Get one without the splash rail. Support it with cheap (Lowes) Kitchen cabinets with drawers . I put plastic egg trays in the drawers to hold small screws and stuff.

If you have a small scroll or band saw. Mount it to a kitchen cabinet with wheels under it. Maube with a drawer for blades. In the bottom put a large bag of sand (lowes) to keep vibration down.

[mhmitchell]

Hope the above are useful to someone. I would line the top of the door worktable with corkboard so I could cut on it. Its also good for building since the pins will hold well in corkboard. Additionally you can close the table with model in place.