Congrats on the future train room. That looks like a fun layout you have planned for it. Like a lot of us... you seem to have the same issues with the children living-in for extended periods beyond their 18th birthday. I've had to tear-down one layout already (back in 2002) because my oldest daughter moved back in after only being six months on her own. Fortunately she only hung around for about two years and got her own home... which I wish I could live in (4000 sqft!). I asked her if we could trade... my 2br 800 sqft for her 4 br with 2 car garage... she said NO! (ingrate ) My other two kids are now 'apparently settled' elsewhere so there is hope I will not have to take them back in. I've had my layout in process for two years... working fast is not my nature... and most of the work done was equavalent of about 1 month of actual "work". Too much dreaming... not enough action... . Now that you have the space... go for it full speed ahead... and don't dream about it as much as I do.
Umm, no windows, I should have thought of that years ago. :thinking: No, there is one big 6’ window at the top of the drawing. It might be a problem and I don’t know what I’m going to do yet, maybe some dark or sky colored curtains I don’t know. I did leave a space to open it and to have access to the roof if I need to. It’s in the front of the house so can’t board it up. Some years ago, I built a shadow box for my wife’s knick knacks that fit inside a TV room window because you could not see the TV from the intense sun. It worked well, but one day when I was cleaning up around the outside I noticed the glass had cracked from the intense desert heat. I should have cracked open the window a little for ventilation. Oh well, it’s hard to think of everything.
“Ain’t” that the truth? That’s one reason why I’m trying to use existing layouts and tying them together. Well my daughter signed the papers today on her new home and said she should be out the weekend after the 1st, so I figure I got two weeks before I start moving in. I need to pull up the carpeting and put down some Laminate Flooring so that my chair can wheel around easily. I guess I should paint first. I saw that someone on TB painted their train room a light blue and I was thinking I might do that as well. Only I got to have a white ceiling.
You BETTER get in that room and pee on all the walls!!! FAST i have a spare room in my house after my mom moved out to live with her sister. (there both in there 70's). The room was empty for 4 days before my wife had crap in it!! Its only a 9'x9.5 room so a round the wall is fine with me. but she was like there will be no room for anything else I told her then clear all the crap out of the garage and the room is all hers!!
Oh that’s funny. She’s been talking about making that her sewing room ever since my daughter first announced that she was buying her own place. I finally confronted her about why she needed such a big room for sewing and she said it was the lighting. It has a large 4x6 window. So I told her that I will put florescent lights all the way around the little room that we now share and I will pull out all my train stuff that’s in there now. I also have a small oval layout with Bachmann track that I’ve been using until I got something nicer. Half the time I can’t even use it when she has a project going on. The current room is too small for a layout and her sewing stuff, but it’s plenty big enough for just her stuff. So we’ll see.
The minute my son, who is rudely squatting in my future train room, moves out, I'm tearing out the wall. His room is adjacent to the utility/laundry room that I currently have rights to. The plan is to take out the wall between the rooms, giving me an L-shaped room, roughly 20'x10 with an 8'x10' "leg". At that time, my current layout will be finished, if you know what I mean... I promised the wife that I'd stop there, and wouldn't gut the entire basement... :tb-wacky:
Oh wow, I can only dream about a layout that big. We don’t have basements in Southern Calif., but I remember how big some of the basements were in those Ranch style homes I was in as a kid living in Pittsburgh. I not only could have an N scale layout, but an O scale layout as well. Actually I’ve been playing with the idea of running a shelf all the way around the room above the window and doors for my O-scale Amtrak train.biggrin:
