Nice digs, guys. As you will soon learn, no matter how big the shop is it will not be big enough. I'm looking to add a loft to mine as I have enough height to make use of it.
I do not like renting - I always feel like I'm living in someone else's house. Hope you can work out a way to make this your own. As a home owner for something like the past 40 years or so I heartily recommend it. I was just fishing around in my skull trying to remember how many houses it's been now -- well, it's a LOT. Not as many as Keith, but a LOT.
Best of luck and great happiness
Dan