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[gsganzer]

Nice place. Ought to keep you busy for a while. You must be pretty tall to reach those upper kitchen cabinets.

I'll put the wife on my shoulders.

 

[gsganzer]

The designer for our new house wanted to put in a second row of cabinets like that, to balance out the tall ceiling and windows. She was good and we used a lot of her ideas but I vetoed that one. I think it looks fine without them.

What size is the shop? Both it and the house look really nice. Congratulations!

The house has really tall ceilings and doors, it makes it feel really airy though. The shop is 40 x 50, I think 12' side walls, but maybe 14'.

About 20 x 40 feet of the shop will be made into a recreation/bunk/trophy room. I'm thinking something in this style, maybe.

 

[1 Old Man]

The house has really tall ceilings and doors, it makes it feel really airy though. The shop is 40 x 50, I think 12' side walls, but maybe 14'.

About 20 x 40 feet of the shop will be made into a recreation/bunk/trophy room. I'm thinking something in this style, maybe.
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Very nice! Congrats on the new place.

 

[riptides]

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About 20 x 40 feet of the shop will be made into a recreation/bunk/trophy room. I'm thinking something in this style, maybe.

I used reclaimed materials for a building we turned into livable space. Old metal against old wood is a really nice look. Sort of gives a timeless impression.

Your idea will go over very well for a foreseeable future.

 

[BleedingOrange]

OP, beautiful place, any chance you could provide the listing so we can see more of the features and pictures of your new awesome place ?

 

[dodge man]

Awesome shop!

 

[EddieWalker]

I really like your shop, but I wonder if I would give up any space for a trophy room. For me, I want my room in the house, where my TV is and where I spend all time. Is there a way to add on to the house or tear down a room and build a trophy room?

I'm slowly working on converting my garage into a family/trophy room. I removed and sealed off the big garage door a few weeks ago and I poured concrete for the new porch last weekend. This weekend I'm working on siding and moving the walk-through door to the middle of the room.

Three years ago I started building a new three car garage to replace the one we're converting to our family room. Lots of distractions on getting that done, but now I'm focusing on this room. It's going to take years to get it done, but when it's done, it will allow me to have all my taxidermy work all in one place, where I can see it every day.

 

[gsganzer]

Eddie,
It's funny how I've changed with this retirement property search. Our current house was built in 1967 and was a simple 1500 sq/ft ranch style when I bought it in 1997. When my wife and I married in 2002, we added a 20' x 30' living/dining room with a big fireplace on one end. It's a really nice comfortable room, but I've now filled it up with game trophies. Pedestals, shoulder mounts, even a full-bodied Tahr. Our original plan was to find a similar type of house with a great room that could also house all the game animals.

Then we started looking at retirement houses and our plan went out the window. We realized we were ready for a place that was completely different, being open and simpler to maintain and feeling less cluttered. The place we eventually bought, was the first place we looked at. As we continued to look at other homes, we found ourselves always comparing them to the first one. With it being a higher end custom home, it ended up making all the other homes feel cheap. We plan to put a couple of the mounts in the house with the gemsbok over the fireplace, sable pedestal in the corner of the dining room and probably the blackbuck on a wall. Anymore mounts and it will start to feel cluttered, which is exactly what we're trying to move away from.

Then we started looking at the workshop. I'm trying to wind-down and retire and I really don't have many more projects that I want to do, except for building a chicken coop, loafing shed and maybe some welding projects. I'd rather spend more time gardening, traveling, reloading, hunting and time with friends and family. Losing 20' x 40' to a dedicated trophy/game/bunkroom, still leaves me a 30' x 40' shop.

 

[gsganzer]

OP, beautiful place, any chance you could provide the listing so we can see more of the features and pictures of your new awesome place ?

I'll see if I still have it. I did download all the photo's from it. Maybe I can put them in an album and link to it somehow.