What to call your haven?

[LeonardY]

I had a good friend say to me. "Wow, you are setting up a great Maker space."

I personally dislike that term. They started using it at work for the wood shop and machine shop. I have to now contend with untrained people thinking they can use the shops.

I'm curious how you describe your space.

 

[Glemon]

Shop

 

[quickfarms]

Barn

 

[pancho400cid]

Garage.

God I hate that "maker space" ****. Sounds so... I don't know... pretentious?

 

[jh87]

I’ve always heard maker space as a business where you could go to use tools to make projects you otherwise couldn’t do because you don’t have the machines to do so. Sort of a community fab shop. A lot of the YouTube folks call themselves, “makers.” I never cared for that because it’s so vague. Like, you build furniture, or birdhouses, or you glue google eyes to toilet paper tubes and sell them at craft fairs? I prefer the term “dickwith.” As in, “what do you do? I dickwith this, I dickwith that.” Lol. As to the op’s question, I just say garage.

 

[Sumboodie]

I've never heard of a Makers Pace.

Someone used that yesterday on here and I thought he was talking about the brand of lawnmower he was trying to fix.

My garage is the garage and the shop is the shop.

 

[MushCreek]

Same here; my shop is the shop; the garage is the garage. I use the garage to park the car. I use the shop to work on stuff and make things. All of the big tools (and most of the little ones) live in the shop. The shop is 150' from the house, just far enough from each other to maintain harmony now that we're retired and together 24/7/365.

 

[16again]

It’s my garage.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Garage. Shop. Maker Space. Meh. I call mine Halfassed.

 

[TRWham]

Garage.

God I hate that "maker space" ****. Sounds so... I don't know... pretentious?

Precisely the word I had in mind, but preening and virtue signaling are pandemic in the 21st century. This too shall pass.

As to the OP, my haven is my deck or fire pit depending on the season. I use and enjoy the garage/shop but it is not always relaxing.

 

[Innovate1]

I think maker space started out describing more high tech community workshops with low power laser cutters and 3d printers and the good "hackers" that reuse stuff and turn it into other high tech stuff. Some had wood working and metal working equipment. Then it kind of morphed into broader stuff. Kind of like STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math) had art added to it to become STEAM - which wasn't in line the original intent of STEM in schools at all. So now everyone calls themselves a maker. True, it is vague has lost a lot of the meaning.

Almost forgot the original question... I call the place I park the cars the garage and the detached building where I do other stuff the shop simply because I needed to call it something besides the garage.

 

[macdabs]

I call mine the “Final Tour Garage” . The last shop I ever will build at my age.

 

[i_be_moose]

Mine is the ToyBox

 

[mmb617]

I have three places I might be working on things I enjoy.

I call the shop the shop.

I call the garage the garage.

I call the basement the basement.

I guess I'm not too imaginative.

 

[Tom Vermont]

Scuderia

 

[glentre]

GarageMahal

Glen

 

[LeonardY]

I call my space a garage with tools. I have a studio in the house.

I didn't really think anyone here would call it a Maker space. It does sound pretentious.

 

[rmmiller]

I personally hate the term man cave, always looked at as what a person that can't fix **** does to a garage/shop. Anyone that refers to my garage as that is quickly corrected! I call it just that too, a garage. It's attached so in my eyes does not quailfy as a shop.

 

[Jinks]

Shop

 

[jshillin]

I've got a garage and a Wood Shop or Wood Shed.

 

[shaune]

DreamLand Garage

 

[GRivera]

I don't like Maker Space either - sounds like a term a non-do'er made up for those of us who have mechanical ability

Also hate the term man cave - seems a woman came up with that one and it caught on...otherwise it would have just been been "the cave"

Mine is the garage or barn - cause it's a pole barn

 

[santagary]

Maker...yes, I confess I've made her several times in my shop named "Honey Doing".

 

[stingry]

I personally hate the term man cave, always looked at is what a person that can't fix **** does to a garage/shop. Anyone that refers to my garage as that is quickly corrected! I call it just that too, a garage. It's attached so in my eyes does not quailfy as a shop.

I’m with you, hate that term!!!!!

 

[JimH74]

I call mine the shed. If someone hears me speaking about it, and calling it a shed, I hope they just think of a broken down building. Not something housing my "treasures".

 

[NUTTSGT]

Garage for the poll.


Official name is "the Nutt House" as it saves my sanity.

 

[CoogarXR]

"Maker Space" sounds like it would be over run with skinny jeans, penny loafers and patchouli oil.

I call my dump the garage or shop.

I don't like "man cave" either. Sounds like something that would need inspected for polyps.

 

[38Chevy454]

"Maker Space" sounds like it would be over run with skinny jeans, penny loafers and patchouli oil.

I call my dump the garage or shop.

I don't like "man cave" either. Sounds like something that would need inspected for polyps.

Agree, maker space is just as bad as man cave. Both terms are waste of breath to those of us who do real work and use our garage or shop as intended.

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[isb cornbinder]

Shop or garage work for me.
My silly neighbour suggested I have a man-cave and I asked him to leave. He is the same neighbour who said he prefers his 8 foot ceiling to my 10 foot ceiling. He suggested it took the light longer to reach the floor and his bench. At 186,000 miles per second, I can wait.

 

[Clemson13]

Garage on for the attached 25x25 space on the house. I park cars in it, and thats about it.

Shop for the detached 30x40 shop that has the welders, tools etc. The shop is for projects.

I hate the term makerspace. I loath it when people here that i weld for fun and decide i am a "maker". No. I am not, i fix **** & build **** i need but i am not a "maker". Such a hipster douche term.

 

[PoorUB]

Beings I have only one building that doubles as parking and shop I just use "shop". Although when we go out to get the car it is generally a "garage" then, so either applies.

 

[RivennHewn]

“Maker space” and “Bespoke”.

Both terms are so trendy and on point!

Especially if they are pouring colored epoxy!

 

[LX-Markham]

It’s the garage, first and foremost. It transforms into the shop.
I tell my wife: “I’ll be in the garage!”

 

[48windsor]

I call that space where I park my cars attached to the house the garage.
That other space a few feet off house I refer to as the shop.
I park my truck in there but thats where my tools are.

 

[SALIV8]

I call mine the dan cave. Dont care what others think. Lol

 

[kaymccampbell]

I was going to say that makers are the product of liberal feminist school teachers instructing emasculated boys and indoctrinated STEM pretender girls in educational institutions without real vocational training but you beat me to it!

Somebody's looking for a nice shiny new "douche bag" T-shirt.

 

[Jlbc212]

Foreign office.

 

[HMCFab9]

The Maker-space term probably comes from the same group that came up with the term She-shed.

(Yuppy office putz bean counter type that think they have real skills to build stuff)

 

[ronr80]

I also hate the man cave sisssy thing, shop or garage for me , and no TV , but I have a beer fridge. R

 

[LeonardY]

I decided to do a little research on the history of Makerspace.

The etymology of the term Maker Movement goes back to 2005, when Dale Dougherty started the Make magazine with the purpose of encouraging people who were interested in gaining new skills, commencing new hobbies and working with and forming communities that share the same interest (Hira, Joslyn, & Hynes, 2014).

Here's the full article.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/brie...ief History of Makerspace _article-card_title

Although the idea actually is reverse of what our garage/shops are. I enjoy having a friends over and the garage is on the tour. But when I'm with friends I want to drink a beer, chat and have some good food. But in the garage I want to be left alone for the most part.

I don't like people messing with my tools.
Nice neighbor came by and started handling my Japanese hand planes. He kept putting them down on the sole. I explained you place them on their side so not to nick the blade. He continued to do the it.

That's not to say I won't help someone. I spent the last summer teaching another neighbor's son about design and building. This was his second year at Engineering school but he couldn't do an internship due to Covid.