Creating a pleasant environment for the layout

[daveg]

The walls are painted, the carpet tiles are laid down.  All I need to do now is find places to hide all the junk, er useful items which I have collected over the years.

Andy

Always a challenge finding the right place for all the bits n pieces!

Perhaps take a look at the Really Useful box offers around. Good solid storage iIMHO.

There's a thread somewhere on the forum but forgotten where exactly 

Dave G

[Greybeema]

I'm thinking kitchen cabinets under the layout to keep all those useful things in but I want to have the layout significantly higher than the cabinets and the underside assessible.  So maybe a set of short legs to lift it above the benching.

I also need a desk/bench and I am thinking a mobile pedestal for all the tools that are required (Air brush, compressor, dremels and general modelling tools)..

[Newportnobby]

I'd recommend looking in charity furniture shops for storage pieces. It's easy to pick up kitchen/bedroom cabinets with lots of drawer space for very little outlay.

[texhorse]

Thanks guys.  Looking at the amount of stuff I have, I was thinking more along the lines of a second shed!



I'll need to throw some of my polystyrene blocks and packing materials out, at the very least.

Andy

[Tdm]

Get yourself a big Xmas Hamper - enjoy yourself drinking and eating the contents - then use the Hamper for storage - oh - and don't wait for Xmas to do it. 

[texhorse]

That's a superb idea, I may just take you up on that!!!!

Feliz Navidad todos!!!!

Andy

[d-a-n]

Has anyone else put much thought into their layout room, before building a layout?  Do you have any photos which may give me more inspiration?

My layout (if you can call it that) is in my office and runs around my desk where I do all of my photo editing, is a place just to run trains around and shunt a bit when I fancy an 'eye break'. The surface needs to be easy to dust down as I don't want a great deal of dust getting around the trains, cameras or computers. I don't feel I'm doing too badly for space but it does now dominate the room, seeing as it's pretty much just an Ikea dining table! It looks more office furniture than layout by design -  I could take the track up very easily if I fancied doing something different and still have a useable desk.

[smg id=13546]

The layout serves the room rather than the room serves the layout.

[mark100]

Has anyone else put much thought into their layout room, before building a layout?  Do you have any photos which may give me more inspiration?

My layout (if you can call it that) is in my office and runs around my desk where I do all of my photo editing, is a place just to run trains around and shunt a bit when I fancy an 'eye break'. The surface needs to be easy to dust down as I don't want a great deal of dust getting around the trains, cameras or computers. I don't feel I'm doing too badly for space but it does now dominate the room, seeing as it's pretty much just an Ikea dining table! It looks more office furniture than layout by design -  I could take the track up very easily if I fancied doing something different and still have a useable desk.

[smg id=13546]

The layout serves the room rather than the room serves the layout.

Some BR Blue and you listen to the Beach Boys   

[Ozymandias]

Currently my half-built layout is languishing in the garage - but we're having a loft conversion done. She thinks this will be the "Spare/Guest Bedroom". Which it will be. It'll just have a large layout, some guitars and all my modelling gear in it.

I hope our guests like the smell of cellulose thinners...

[texhorse]

 

Ha ha ha ha!!!!  "Guest room"?  What planet are these people on?  My wife said the same thing to me when I decorated the back bedroom and er.....I'm still in the shed with the layout.

Andy

[Ozymandias]

Andy, I strongly suspect that (despite my protestations) my layout will probably remain in the garage, too. But a man can dream.