"For the last year this has been our social life," he said, gesturing to the 10-foot-long tubular car in the center of a basement workshop.

Barney then comes home to find Katy has been rummaging through his basement workshop.

I didn't step outside that basement workshop for two months.

He'd been there in the darkness of the steps leading down into the basement workshop, during the period of Pete's visit.

Finding this cellar beneath the basement workshop had been a real discovery in Pete's opinion.

Then he built a lot of these music machines in his basement workshop.

He retired to his basement workshop nearly every evening.

What my father did in his basement workshop was make toys.

There are more awaiting repairs in a basement workshop.

And why are writers always writing about the smell of the wood shavings in their basement workshops?