martin
your new work/play space is quite a conversation piece, you must need to pinch yourself when you are up there to make sure you are not dreaming. you mention that your wife will have her workshop as well, what is her favorite passion, or is it a secret? it will be fun to see your playmoprojects grow. i wonder how long it will be until you run out of table space.
kaethe
My wife has several hobbies - first she has her fabric crafts room, which also spills out into the rest of the house. She cards, spins, dyes, sews, knits, crochets, quilts, and other stuff I can't recall right now.
Under my Playmoden is her woodwork "shop", or it will be when she starts to get some machines in there. For now it's an empty garage. The door in the corner leads to my den.
She is also enjoying gardening, now we have some space with raised beds and other features that our tiny yard in London didn't offer. The small potting greenhouse sits inside a wooden rectangle that will eventually house a full-size greenhouse.