Room
Workshop
This is the room 6S came from, and the only one in the house where a bad standard can cost you a finger rather than an afternoon. The workshop's mess is never really about storage; it is about three verdicts you keep postponing, on offcuts, on half-finished projects, and on paint. Start at the PPE station, because everything else in here involves a blade, a solvent, or a cloud of dust, and you want your glasses findable before you spend a Saturday handling any of it.
The 6 micro zones, in working order
A micro zone is one session, not a whole day. Finish one before you start the next.
- The Main Workbench (60-90 min)
The one surface where a project actually gets built, cut, glued, and repaired. - The Power Tool Storage (60-90 min)
Keep every corded and cordless tool guarded, complete with its own accessories, and ready to pick up and use. - The Fastener and Hardware Zone (45-75 min)
Let you put your hand on the right screw straight away, so a project never stops for a hardware run. - The Material Rack (60-90 min)
Hold the wood and metal you will genuinely use, stored so it stays straight and does not fall on anyone. - The Finishing and Chemical Zone (45-75 min)
Store paint, glue, stain, and solvent so they stay usable and so they never start a fire. - The Safety and PPE Station (30-45 min)
Make protective gear so easy to reach that putting it on is faster than skipping it.
For this room
- {'label': 'Where to start', 'text': 'Take the Safety and PPE Station first even though it is the smallest zone in the room. It sets the terms for the other five: once the glasses hang by the door and the extinguisher gauge reads green, you can work through the blades and the solvents without improvising.'}
- {'label': 'Cleaning note', 'text': 'Vacuum, never sweep. A broom launches the finest sawdust back into the air, where it settles on wet finish and into your lungs, and the fines are the part that actually burns. Empty the dust extractor at the end of every session rather than the start of the next one.'}
- {'label': 'The trap', 'text': 'You will sort the fasteners twice before you touch the offcut pile once, because tipping out a jar of screws feels like progress and putting good wood in the fire bucket feels like waste. The zones you keep skipping are the zones holding the room back.'}