Build Spaces?

[WinterPoet]

Hiya! Our team is currently going through the paperwork and overall bureaucracy to (possibly) obtain a building to use as a workshop. In the past, we've had the good luck to have a member whose father worked on cars, and therefore had a giant workshop we could use. However, that member is now off at college, and for the first time in our team history, we are without a clear space to use.

So we're reaching out to see what other teams have done. Have any of you worked in someone's garage (which we're considering if we don't get the building cleared in time)? If so, how did you stay organized and turn it into a usable space?

Alternatively, once you got into a dedicated workshop, how did you decide what needed to be there? What tools/machinery were absolutely necessary and what just took space? Again, how did you organize and prioritize?