My wife says...

[John Fenna]

That my hobbies take up too much room....
Views of "The Spare Room" AKA "My Sewing Room", "The Trophy Walls", "The Bushcraft Gear Store"....

From the door


Floor space (unused)


Trophy Wall and sewing bits storage


Trophy Wall 2 Crafts for Sale storage


Behind the welcome banner (stolen from the Albertville Winter Olympics) is a storage tower for fabrics etc.
The cutting table is actually a fixed bench along the wall (with storage under) plus a pasting table and sheet of hardboard both of which tuck away when not in use.

Am I really taking up an unreasonable amount of space (my sleeping bags, kipmats, knives and some other bits live elsewhere around the house and the Garage is too small to hold a car as well as my workbench, anvil, belt sander, seasoning wood, canoe kit .. the 2 canoes live on a custom frame in the garden)?

 

[British Red]

John I'm thinking of building a barn or big shed for hobbies.

Which is onl worrying when you consider that we already have four.

 

[Dreadhead]

I think you need an annex I have a similar sized room as my new office, plus a shed out back for all my dyeing and riveting, and a concrete shed out the front for firewood and pack storage

 

[Swallow]

Is the overall space you have split evenly by all family members?

 

[dwardo]

I can see at-least 3 square feet you are not utilizing there John. Ok you may have to enter the room through the window but hey.

 

[Toddy]

I can still see the carpet; you do not have too much stuff.



Right now I have four sheds and a greenhouse, and it's barely possible to walk into any of them
Himself says the loft won't take any more stuff, and the kitchen table is presently buried under my quilting. I have three piles of stuff on the living room floor ready to go to other people, and generally life's busy and interesting

Houses with no stuff around always leave me lost for words. What do you talk about ? what do they do ? what do they make ? what do they read?
Different world view I reckon.
Imagine being bored :shudder: or having nothing to do but watch tv :yikes:

M

 

[cranmere]

Houses with no stuff around always leave me lost for words. What do you talk about ? what do they do ? what do they make ? what do they read?
Different world view I reckon.
Imagine being bored :shudder: or having nothing to do but watch tv :yikes:

This. I sometimes grumble about stuff being stewn everywhere, but it's as much my stuff as his. I figure that stuff means you do things. No stuff speaks of a sterile and dull life.

 

[Zingmo]

“Being creative is aided by breaking away from tradition, order, and convention and a disorderly environment seems to help people do just that.”
Kathleen D. Vohs - University of Minnesota

Z

 

[treadlightly]

May I suggest the virtues of minimalism???

 

[mousey]

My wife says....

Lots of things but I tend not to listen



** goes and runs off to hide in a cupboard before the flying iron finds me **

 

[wandering1]

Fortunately I'm not hitched so....no nagging
Instead it's parents....naggin
It's a matter of 1 shed brimming over
Timber piled up in corner of garden
Bush and hiking kit stored in bedroom cupboard and assorted other places
And the brick built shed (used to be dads workshop) which I use now
AMD a rather large piece of MDF on the bedroom floor that is currently a cutting board and sewing table for the leather projects

 

[cranmere]

May I suggest the virtues of minimalism???

Are there any?

 

[sunndog]

Are there any?

Only on a trip, not at home

 

[Goatboy]

I think you need an annex I have a similar sized room as my new office, plus a shed out back for all my dyeing and riveting, and a concrete shed out the front for firewood and pack storage

An annex!, I think Captain Fenna should be offered a wing in a stately home.

Seriously it's one of the reasons I live alone (SWMBO doesn't even live in the same hemisphere, never mind the same continent). So the book collection has spread so that every wall is lined with bookcases. The gear is everywhere, though stored; sometimes too well.

Nice MP40 Mr Fenna, a trophy of parachuting into take on the Bosche during Operation Market Garden?

 

[Joonsy]

May I suggest the virtues of minimalism???

Are there any?

Yes, I know where everything is because I have so little, and as the little I have is used a lot it collects no dust.

 

[John Fenna]

An annex!, I think Captain Fenna should be offered a wing in a stately home.

Seriously it's one of the reasons I live alone (SWMBO doesn't even live in the same hemisphere, never mind the same continent). So the book collection has spread so that every wall is lined with bookcases. The gear is everywhere, though stored; sometimes too well.

Nice MP40 Mr Fenna, a trophy of parachuting into take on the Bosche during Operation Market Garden?

MP40 and helmet are souvenirs of playing in "Allo, Allo" Cheeky swine - I ain't THAT old (really - I'm not ... I just feel it some mornings and look it a lot of the time!)

 

[John Fenna]

Is the overall space you have split evenly by all family members?

There are only the two of us - we each have our own bedroom (her snoring meant that I had to drive her out of the marital bed - she can still wake me through the wall!) and the dining-room, kitchen and living room are mainly hers, most of the garden is hers (though the hedge and canoe racks are mine, the back yard is all hers and the bathroom is a 50/50 split but she has sole ownership of the garden shed. The loft is mainly a costume store for theatrical stuff for the Attic Player ... which we both belong to!

 

[John Fenna]

May I suggest the virtues of minimalism???

No...... it is not in the realms of possibility!

 

[Goatboy]

MP40 and helmet are souvenirs of playing in "Allo, Allo" Cheeky swine - I ain't THAT old (really - I'm not ... I just feel it some mornings and look it a lot of the time!)

Hehehe, Sorry Mr Fenna. Was it the TV series or a stage version? Always laughing when seeing Colonel Kurt von Strohm played by Richard Marner when he was a German guard in The Dirty Dozen.

Hey at least I didn't commit the cardinal sin of calling your MP40 a schmeisser!

Lovely collection of stuff Sir.

 

[laro13]

MP40 and helmet are souvenirs of playing in "Allo, Allo"

Which episode?