We moved from Port Macquarie on the mid-north coast of NSW to Kurrajong in the Blue Mountains in March 2018. The house sits on a block of land large enough for us to build a workshop for me to indulge my hobbies of woodworking and metal working.

We wanted a workshop big enough to hold all my tools which included a metal lathe newly acquired (second hand) as well as benches, drill press table saw and sundry other items that were housed on a temporary basis in the garage attached to the house.

First job was to fell the jacaranda tree that was growing in the middle of the area selected to locate the studio.