Your Woodshop Offers A Different Kind Of Relaxation

Have you been feeling the urge or desire to work with your hands? Not those that include typing on keyboards, moving the mouse and scrolling your iPhones but those that involve heavy tools as well as some mess or dirt. This feeling is somehow normal, since as a lot of us spend a lot of time doing just desk jobs, some of us may be yearning to do something more tangible.

This is the discovery of the author of the book, “Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work”, Matthew Crawford. He decided to own a motorcycle repair shop and leave his job as an executive director. He has never been happier.

Author, Mitchell Parker of Houzz shares that humans have the natural urge to work with their hands. Working with our hands to solve problems also makes us happier and more resiliant to stress which is why having our own woodshop is a great home addition.

A woodshop is a great place to relieve stress not only because it is a place where we can work with our hands but also because it allows us to work with wood, a material that humans have used for many years to create various things or objects.

If a woodshop is what you need and you are planning on adding one in your home, then you may want to see Mitchell Parker’s collection. The collection includes woodshops designed by Rhonda Vandiver, Architect Marcelo Valdes, Contractor Phil Johnson, Jeff Parsons, Paul Barnish and Luc Sergerie. via [Houzz]