Our Shop

Our proposed woodshop

Our goal

We are working to build a community woodshop on a portion of the Johnson Farm, a city-owned parcel on Fletcher Bay Road. The shop would provide about 4,000 square feet for tools and workbenches. The building would also include two bathrooms, an entry area and a small library/lunch room.

Many professionals are donating their services to this exciting community project. They include three architects—Andy Rovelstadt, Russ Hamlet and Eric Hoyte; landscape architect Kia Micaud; and Jaime Saez of Saez Consulting Engineers, Inc.

What we want in our shop

Not your typical bus shelter

The first houses in the new Ferncliff Avenue affordable housing project are just beginning to be built, but a beautiful amenity of the neighborhood—a timberframed bus shelter—is already in place. Volunteers from Bainbridge Island Community Woodshop assembled and finished the structure in mid November, using wood from trees that had to be cleared from the site to make way for the development. Coyote Woodworks, a Bainbridge sawmill company, milled the wood, and timberframers at Salisbury Construction cut the joinery. See how the structure took shape.