I guess since it will be mostly a tying room, I’ll post here.
I AM BUYING A HOUSE!!! This means, I get a room. Not a room upstairs, but the basement is MINE. I have a unique opurtunity to create a room for my tying and related gear and amusments. This room will contain my tying desk and material storage, rod building area (still have that 2 weight to build) and this will double as a leader furling station, all my fishing gear, my library, a comfy chair, TV, and a SMALL wet bar.
To all out there, what would you put in your perfect space? Please include all wants or needs you can think of. Pictures could be helpful with ideas. Thanks!
A computer and enough electrical outlets for the stuff I have now and the stuff that I?m going to get. A bookcase for sure, for real books not for what we use bookcases for and I might have to get back to you on this.
That will get you started:D What you described and a computer desk should just about do it. Put in a small kitchen and bath and they’ll never see you again. LOL
Lots of drawer space, especially if the drawers are made of, or lined with, aromatic cedar (keeps the bugs away). VEE and I have 32 good sized drawers and that’s not enough
Peg board on part of a wall is a great idea, with plenty of hangers for all those package goods that get lost in a drawer.
A goodly sized bench top, mine is 8 feet by 2 feet. Every inch covered by tying material of some sort. (Not enough Drawer Space) I would opt for a light blue or green top. White gives off too much glare and is hard to keep clean.
A rack for spooled items, thread, antron, floss, wire, etc. Mine holds 52 spools, not big enough.
Light, and plenty of it. Not only over the vise, but all around the room. I like the daylight balanced flourescent lamps and the almost shadowless light they provide.
Secure hook storage. If you’ve ever dropped a hook box and had more than one compartment open, it’s a pain in the …foot. Not to mention trying to resort the hooks.
NO carpeting. See above. Nothing finds hooks like bare feet on carpeting. Nothing attracts hooks like carpeting.
Find a big ol’ used desk with drawers on the sides. That’s what I use for my rod building area in the garage (no basements in California). I keep all my tools, epoxy, and parts in the drawers along with fly boxes and stuff for fishing. I put in high output florescent lights for general area lighting and another light fixture over the work bench. There is a shelf for a radio within reach so I can listen while I make things. Oh, don’t forget the beer fridge.
Some John Prine or Bob Marley CDs, a comfortable chair and a good light. Like money, there is just never enough storage. Ever. One of my newspaper subscribers goes to the Mayo Clinic for treatment and his doctor is a tyer, and the standing joke between them is what is the newest pelt in her “pelt freezer.” Yes, and my subscriber will swear on a Bible, that the doctor (yes, a woman, no less) has a separate freezer for road kill pelts she finds driving to her favorite Driftless rivers. JGW
If you want to get some good ideas about storage and material placement, check the extensive pictures in the post right below this one “a fabulous collection.” The life-long fly tyer who passed away really had his stuff organized and accessible. You might want to add or delete a few things but his game plan was very sound. Just my 2% of a dollar. I hope this helps you with your very pleasant task. 8T
I am going to have direct and indirect lighting on different switches and task lighting for the work area’s. I’m going to build a wall of drawers out of cedar plywood perpendicular to my tying area that will be on a short wall, peg board on the opposite side between the tying desk and rod building area. The floor will be wood laminate raised off the concrete floor to keep it a bit warmer. The far wall will contain my TV flanked by built in bookshelves with my gear armoire and wet bar opposite the rod building area. All walls will have plenty of outlets.
This is just what I am thinking so far and we’ll see how it goes. I figure this will keep me busy until spring steelhead season. This will be more than just a tying room, I want this to be a place I can go and drift away when I can’t get away to make a drift.
Any other idea’s, or if you think I can improve on the idea PLEASE let me know. I only get one chance at this, I want to make it count.
Probably not. If i get a laptop I can bring that down. But we will have an office upstairs for my business, so that is where the desktop will be. I’ll have the TV with a DVD and/or VG’s to have music and such.
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