My Hobby Room

[THarrison351]

I've made two prior posts about my storage/hobby room.

So after living here for almost seven years and never really accomplishing what I had planned, I'm mostly finished. During the pandemic. I was furloughed for four and then laid off for one month. In that time, I pulled everything out of the storage room, cleaned, repaired and inventoried most all my cars and stuff, and sold what I could on eBay. I had planned to strip the walls and completely sheet rock the room until I was laid off and my future was uncertain. When I was called back to work, My wife said to forget about the walls because no one would see them and purchase storage shelves as I saw fit. So, I started looking for the shelves like we'd used for storage in the past (Gorilla), but they were no longer available by that name and the style we had. I ended up with some close-out shelves from Walmart called Muscle shelves. They're OK, but I wouldn't put a lot of weight like they advertise (800 lbs total). Anyways, the people before us used this room as a playroom for their kids and they left the floor padding. My wife thought I was going to pull it up, but I thought it might save a dropped model at least better than concrete. Oh yeah, I put some new LED shop lights up in the room. Not easy to photograph the room with my phone.

[Tom Geiger]

I think it looks just great! You have everything on display, better than a hobby shop!  Lightweight shelving is perfect for models!

[cobraman]

Good looking room.

[hedotwo]

Nice!  Great having a dedicated space to work in and you did it right!

[Gramps46]

Looks really great and well organized too.

[randyc]

That's NICE!   That's a wishbook model room for sure.

 

[wrenchr]

The organization is truly inspiring. 

[DrKerry]

Very nice!!!!

[tbill]

Now get it dirty....

 

 

I kid, great looking space you have there, I don’t know what I’d do with that kind of space.

[THarrison351]

Thanks, I'm going to lock the door...

[slusher]

Great room!  I wouldn’t want to leave it...

[ChrisBcritter]

Should be a lot easier to find the inevitable dropped parts on that rubber matting, too. Nice job!

[Brutalform]

That’s quite an investment there. I like it. 

[THarrison351]

21 hours ago, THarrison351 said:

Thanks, I'm going to lock the door...

Just kidding. I'm now in the process of repairing these three, plus I have about eight more that need cleaning and repairing,

Thanks for all the positive comments. I never would have thought it would have turned out this nice. I also never realized how much I really had until I started inventorying everything earlier this year. I still have a bunch of 1/64 cars I'd like to build a display for on the one empty wall by my desk. I saw a framed piece of 1/4" paneling and they had added pieces of vertical trim to allow the carded Hotwheels and Matchbox cars to slide down on each other. I thought I could build that.