Mark_S
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Splitting the large portraits thread (also, keep in mind we have a gallery category for this as well: (there was a url link here which no longer exists) ).
Until now I have built five darkrooms. But there are still things to improve. And everytime I study other peoples darkrooms, I learn one or two nice tricks.
I recently set up another darkroom. We are renting a house which had a room built on the back of the garage - about 19'x8' which I used for the darkroom. It had windows, but no water, so I covered the windows with plywood, and brought water in through the windows, and pump waste water back out through the window.
Starting on the dry side - I have a row of cabinets to keep stuff in - next to that is a home made cabinet which I store chemicals in.

On the other side of the door, there is a table which holds my dry mount press, with drying screens below, and then the enlarger table:

The enlarger is a Ilford MG600 on a Beseler 45MX Chassis - storage for easels and paper safes below:

On the wet side, I have two 6' sinks, it would be better if the sinks were just a bit wider. 16x20 and 20x24 are doable, but require juggling. The sinks are plumbed with hot, cold and tempered water.
A wire rack above the sink allows me to put things up there to dry, and they drip into the sink. There is also a strip of clothespins to hold film to dry over the sink.

I built a cabinet which holds my Jobo Processor, and allows it to drain into the sink next to it.

Safelight comes from a pair of Agfa low pressure sodium vapor lights.
I've been pretty happy with the darkroom - good place to retreat from the world!