Hobby room

Living Legend wrote:

When we first bought our new house the deal was the basement which is finished out was going to be mine.  It includes a bathroom, 3 closets, bedroom and a nice size den.  After we moved in she tried to "reclaim" my area.  The first sq. footage I lost was a closet.  We put all of our mideveil clothes and camp stuff in it.  Next I lost the bedroom, bathroom and another closet.  We live in Arizona so our bedroom being in the coolest part of the house made sense.  Alas Ive also had to now "share the den"  with my wife as once again having our computers and the TV in the basement seems to make sense.  I do have to keep reminding her that she is a guest in the den and that flowers and lacy type things are not permitted under any circumstance as exceptable decore.  She still tries to sneak them in without me knowing.

You give her an inch, she'll take the whole mile.  NEVER EVER GIVE AN INCH!

jwb wrote:

Jim Barton wrote: Have you ever noticed that when you outgrow your work area and you create a new larger area, very quickly you outgrow that? Just this afternoon, I was modeling and digging through the spares box looking for some scrap wood when it dawned on me that no matter how much I expand my workbench or the storage space, there never seems to be enough room! Years ago, living in California, I kept all my modeling stuff in a small two-drawer nightstand and a fishing tackle box; the workbench doubled as a dining room table. I was always struggling to find extra room. Now in Arizona, I've got perhaps ten times the storage and work space, and it's not enough! Something fishy going on here... Einstein's Theory of Modeling Space: The relative amount of space required is exponentially and inversely proprtional to the relative amount of space available. This is observable in the example you gave. In the tackle box scenario, your ratio of space available to space needed was nearly 1 to 1. However, as your space available grew, the proportion of the space required grew faster. So as your space doubled, your space required quadrupled. If your space available quadruples, your space required goes up four squared. Eventually, you will create a styrene rip in the space time continuim. Yourrelative space will decrease to the point of negative relative space, at which point the gravitational pull of the stuff trying to occupy that space will then collapse into itself, causing a a brief destabilization of the matter in the local vicinity. Everything will be drawn in, compressed into a small ball with a mass far greater than the earth itself, and explode, relaeasing the energy of a thousand times a thousand air compressors, plus several bottles of paint and one tube of glue. It can be pretty catastrophic, so wear goggles.

 

jwb wrote:

Jim Barton wrote: Have you ever noticed that when you outgrow your work area and you create a new larger area, very quickly you outgrow that? Just this afternoon, I was modeling and digging through the spares box looking for some scrap wood when it dawned on me that no matter how much I expand my workbench or the storage space, there never seems to be enough room! Years ago, living in California, I kept all my modeling stuff in a small two-drawer nightstand and a fishing tackle box; the workbench doubled as a dining room table. I was always struggling to find extra room. Now in Arizona, I've got perhaps ten times the storage and work space, and it's not enough! Something fishy going on here... Einstein's Theory of Modeling Space: The relative amount of space required is exponentially and inversely proprtional to the relative amount of space available. This is observable in the example you gave. In the tackle box scenario, your ratio of space available to space needed was nearly 1 to 1. However, as your space available grew, the proportion of the space required grew faster. So as your space doubled, your space required quadrupled. If your space available quadruples, your space required goes up four squared. Eventually, you will create a styrene rip in the space time continuim. Yourrelative space will decrease to the point of negative relative space, at which point the gravitational pull of the stuff trying to occupy that space will then collapse into itself, causing a a brief destabilization of the matter in the local vicinity. Everything will be drawn in, compressed into a small ball with a mass far greater than the earth itself, and explode, relaeasing the energy of a thousand times a thousand air compressors, plus several bottles of paint and one tube of glue. It can be pretty catastrophic, so wear goggles.

And don't forget your towel!

Jim Barton wrote:

Have you ever noticed that when you outgrow your work area and you create a new larger area, very quickly you outgrow that? Just this afternoon, I was modeling and digging through the spares box looking for some scrap wood when it dawned on me that no matter how much I expand my workbench or the storage space, there never seems to be enough room! Years ago, living in California, I kept all my modeling stuff in a small two-drawer nightstand and a fishing tackle box; the workbench doubled as a dining room table. I was always struggling to find extra room. Now in Arizona, I've got perhaps ten times the storage and work space, and it's not enough! Something fishy going on here...

Einstein's Theory of Modeling Space:

The relative amount of space required is exponentially and inversely proprtional to the relative amount of space available.

This is observable in the example you gave. In the tackle box scenario, your ratio of space available to space needed was nearly 1 to 1. However, as your space available grew, the proportion of the space required grew faster. So as your space doubled, your space required quadrupled. If your space available quadruples, your space required goes up four squared.

Eventually, you will create a styrene rip in the space time continuim. Yourrelative space will decrease to the point of negative relative space, at which point the gravitational pull of the stuff trying to occupy that space will then collapse into itself, causing a a brief destabilization of the matter in the local vicinity. Everything will be drawn in, compressed into a small ball with a mass far greater than the earth itself, and explode, relaeasing the energy of a thousand times a thousand air compressors, plus several bottles of paint and one tube of glue.

It can be pretty catastrophic, so wear goggles.

Have you ever noticed that when you outgrow your work area and you create a new larger area, very quickly you outgrow that? Just this afternoon, I was modeling and digging through the spares box looking for some scrap wood when it dawned on me that no matter how much I expand my workbench or the storage space, there never seems to be enough room! Years ago, living in California, I kept all my modeling stuff in a small two-drawer nightstand and a fishing tackle box; the workbench doubled as a dining room table. I was always struggling to find extra room. Now in Arizona, I've got perhaps ten times the storage and work space, and it's not enough! Something fishy going on here...

You can NEVER have more then you need.  hehehehehe

Bud

I have a full basement all to myself and what I have learned from having all this space?  Is that we are like fish,  our hobby grows to fit the space we are allotted.  My models have gotten bigger, I am building more at the same time, and I have accumulated a lot more than I really need.

Scott

Some of you guys complain, but my hobby space is a 6 metre square area of our downstairs room, with half of that being a wood bench the rest of the room is shared with my younger sister

Will

For years I was in the wilderness with no place to call home - just rented accomodation. I made no models for 12 years. The I got a place - quite a big place and had a room JUST for hobbies! Whoopee!

However, 8 years later, a wife (a wonderful wife - don't get me wrong!) and a daughter (wonderful etc) and a baby-on-the-way means my Hobby is in the Attic. I am not. It is just storage space. I am lucky - we're having a baby! But please let none of us complain!

The even better news is that we are planning to move house - and this time it will have a hobby room. I will banish the soft furnishings and have nice easy clean surfaces. A good hard laminate wood flooring should mean I loose less photo-etched items! I need an area from which I can clean the dust from - I hate it when there is dust around and I am airbrushing. I also need some display space for my models.

So, I have a PLAN.. Wish me luck.

When I was in college, living at home, I had a section of the basement in the family house (in Columbus, Ohio) to myself.  I eventually moved out, first to Tidewater Virginia and then to Greenville, North Carolina.  In both those environs, I discovered, houses rarely have basements.  (There are excellent reasons for that.) 

For about ten years I was a bachelor living in a couple of two-bedroom apartments (first in Newport News, then in Greenville).  In both cases I turned the bigger bedroom into a workshop and slept in the smaller one.  After I got married and my wife and two stepkids moved into a house, I made do with a small spare bedroom.  For a while my workbench was a sheet of plywood laid on top of a twin bed, and had to be removable when we had guests.

Then, in 2001, my mother passed away (Dad had gone ten years earlier) and we inherited some money.  My dear, dear wife insisted that a substantial chunk of it go to a permanent workshop.  (I insisted that another substantial chunk go to a down payment on a new car for her.)  I bought a prefabricated wood building, ten feet by twenty feet; I won't soon forget the day it was delivered and plopped down in a corner of the back yard.  It has full wiring (with its own circuit breaker panel), heating, and air conditioning.  Now all my tools can stay set up all the time, and I can make as much of a mess as I like and clean it up when I feel like it.  The shop even has a small stereo system, so I can listen to music and audio books while I work on models.  There's a small fishpond just outside, where the frogs provide their own sound effects on summer nights like tonight.  Everybody should have a wife like mine.  And the answer to the obvious question is - about $7,000.  She freely admits that it was worth it to get all that smelly, noisy junk out of the house.

When we first bought our new house the deal was the basement which is finished out was going to be mine.  It includes a bathroom, 3 closets, bedroom and a nice size den.  After we moved in she tried to "reclaim" my area.  The first sq. footage I lost was a closet.  We put all of our mideveil clothes and camp stuff in it.  Next I lost the bedroom, bathroom and another closet.  We live in Arizona so our bedroom being in the coolest part of the house made sense.  Alas Ive also had to now "share the den"  with my wife as once again having our computers and the TV in the basement seems to make sense.  I do have to keep reminding her that she is a guest in the den and that flowers and lacy type things are not permitted under any circumstance as exceptable decore.  She still tries to sneak them in without me knowing.

the FSM isuue with the awesome hobby room was the April 2006 issue

If you are going to make a hobby room, "private study" MAKE IT  the BIGGEST room in the house LOL

That's GREAT. I am set up in my bedroom and for your wife to have "allowed you" is even better. The question is how much did you have to KISS UP !!! LOL

No but really that's GREAT, when you are done, you have to post some pics.

Good Luck

Bud