Hi All,

I'm in the planning phase of moving my shop into the unfinished basement of our new (to us) house.

I want my wood shop to feel like a wood shop- to be a unique space where I feel inspired to do good work. For that reason, I'm not thrilled about the idea of painted white drywall, osb, etc. I'm leaning towards using cedar tongue and groove to cover the wooden upper portions of the walls above the poured concrete foundation (about the upper 3.5' of wall). I love the look, and like that I can hang things pretty easily on it. For example:

http://mybasementwoodshop.blogspot.com/

But I got to thinking about the case of a fire. I understand that drywall can keep fire at bay a little longer than wood. Am I'm over-thinking this? Obviously I won't do stupid things that could cause a fire, and I'll have fire extinguishers down there, etc. But I do want to think about safety, especially because this is a basement shop and non an out-building.

Thanks,

Peter