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My potting 'table' is my breakfast table with newspaper spread across it Actually I put the newspaper on the floor as well, that's where my 'potting' takes place. I'd go in the garage to get a mix of garden soil and potting soil in a bucket and bring them back to the breakfast area to work my potting/ re-potting. The breakfast area faces south and I've built a bench along the window, that's where my indoor plants are.
Eventually I'll build a 'real' potting table, but it needs to be located near a spigot so I can water plants & wash my hands after I am done. But it is chilly outdoors in the winter time, that's when I grow my vegetable seedlings. Fortunately, I have a understanding wife as long as I clean up afterward.
I have a nice green plastic table that I have hiked up on black plastic nursery pots. Got it from an older gardener who was moving. It is right beside our garden shed and I can water directly on it without worry. sometimes the pots get old and the table shifts a bit but lord knows I have a life time supply of pots behind the shed so that is no worry.
I used to have most of a garden shed set up with a nice multilevel potting table and lots of additional storage shelves for pots, tools, fertilizer and soil. The only thing it lacked was running water close by, so I had to haul big watering cans of water when I needed them or haul the hose over. My current setup is in a walk out basement, which is not as handy and still doesn't have running water really close by. What I'd love to have, if I had the money, is a small greenhouse with potting table, storage and running water steps from my back door. Someone I know has a "shed" (read: perfect little dollhouse) set up with ventilation and lights run on electricity provided by solar panels.... she also has a garden to die for.
I used to have most of a garden shed set up with a nice multilevel potting table and lots of additional storage shelves for pots, tools, fertilizer and soil. The only thing it lacked was running water close by, so I had to haul big watering cans of water when I needed them or haul the hose over. My current setup is in a walk out basement, which is not as handy and still doesn't have running water really close by. What I'd love to have, if I had the money, is a small greenhouse with potting table, storage and running water steps from my back door. Someone I know has a "shed" (read: perfect little dollhouse) set up with ventilation and lights run on electricity provided by solar panels.... she also has a garden to die for.
My dream is a green house like you have described...gravel floor, potted citrus and orchids and winter vegetables and lots of work and storage space....more like a green mansion rather than a green house, LOL....well, I can dream anyway.
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Actually I put the newspaper on the floor as well, that's where my 'potting' takes place. I'd go in the garage to get a mix of garden soil and potting soil in a bucket and bring them back to the breakfast area to work my potting/ re-potting. The breakfast area faces south and I've built a bench along the window, that's where my indoor plants are. 
What I'd love to have, if I had the money, is a small greenhouse with potting table, storage and running water steps from my back door. Someone I know has a "shed" (read: perfect little dollhouse) set up with ventilation and lights run on electricity provided by solar panels.... she also has a garden to die for.
