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Hobby Room
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2022 12:01 pm
by Sir Henry
This is my new hobby room and is ten feet away from where I can start shooting. My gun room is my bedroom and is upstairs. I have an office that doubles as a hobby room but I got tire running upstairs for ammo, a target or stapler or one of the million other things I would forget.

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It’s a 72” Snap-On and I had to sell a kidney to afford it.

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This is the best feature of it. I can store the majority of rifles upstairs and keep a dozen of the most frequent shooters in it and lock it.

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Re: Hobby Room
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2022 3:26 pm
by markiver54
Looks great! and I might add; that large loop still amazes me.
Very nice hobby room. Yes, those Snap-Ons are very expensive, but what a great idea!
Re: Hobby Room
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2022 5:25 pm
by Headhog
Great makeover. That is a very functional room and being so close to your shooting area is a home run. Super job/idea Gene.
Paul
Re: Hobby Room
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2022 11:24 pm
by Travlin
Very nice. What is the story on the church pew?
Re: Hobby Room
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2022 11:30 pm
by Sir Henry
Headhog wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 5:25 pm
Great makeover. That is a very functional room and being so close to your shooting area is a home run. Super job/idea Gene.
Paul
It’s a shortened pew that I bought from a neighbor. I need a place to put packages when come inside and where I can take my shoes off or put them on.
Re: Hobby Room
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2022 9:56 am
by Hatchdog
That is probably the best use of a tool chest I have ever seen. We need a thumbs up smilie…….well done!

Re: Hobby Room
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2022 2:39 pm
by Sir Henry
Hatchdog wrote: ↑Sun Sep 11, 2022 9:56 am
That is probably the best use of a tool chest I have ever seen. We need a thumbs up smilie…….well done!
Thanks. I even have tool chests as nightstands and one is a tv platform.
Re: Hobby Room
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2022 9:14 pm
by Sir Henry
I installed track lighting in the hobby room. Over the tool box it’s CRI of 90 and 3000K. The lights aimed at the walls are CRI of 85 and burn at 2700K down to 2200K at 10% brightness.

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Day above and night below. I live in a rural area 300 yards away from the main road so I don’t put curtains up except in the bedroom.

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I think it makes good artificial light for photography even though I prefer natural light. This was taken at night with only track lighting.

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Re: Hobby Room
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2022 10:06 am
by Hatchdog
Great picture, candy on the left and eye candy on the right.

Re: Hobby Room
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2022 3:32 pm
by dave77
You better hope you get lots of trick or treaters or you will have quite a bit of candy left over. Or maybe that was the plan.
I always buy some Halloween candy even though I haven't had a trick or treater for 37 years.

Re: Hobby Room
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2022 4:27 pm
by markiver54
dave77 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 31, 2022 3:32 pm
You better hope you get lots of trick or treaters or you will have quite a bit of candy left over. Or maybe that was the plan.
I always buy some Halloween candy even though I haven't had a trick or treater for 37 years.
Bout the same here. I always buy a small bag of something. Have not seen any Trick or Treaters here in many years. I would just hate to have one show up though, and not have any treats.
Re: Hobby Room
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2022 6:26 pm
by Sir Henry
I’m really hoping to give all the candy out. I’ve already had my fill.
Re: Hobby Room
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2022 7:09 pm
by markiver54
Have not had a single one here. No surprise. I just ate my second Peanut Butter cup.

Re: Hobby Room
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2022 12:58 am
by dave77
No trick or treaters so I guess I will have to eat the candy I bought today. I had already eaten most of the small bag of candy I bought last week.
I don't blame parents for not letting kids go out trick or treating like we used to, we would be out way past dark and the only parents out were with the very young kids. The worst thing that ever happened was bigger kids stealing your bag, didn't take long to figure out that you shouldn't let your bag get too full before going home to empty it out.
Re: Hobby Room
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2022 11:11 am
by daytime dave
Gene, great hobby room. I have priced (only ) the Snap On tool chests. They are very costly.
I'm happy with my Craftsman and newly purchased Harbor Freight tool chests. Mine live in the barn though and only hold tools. I like your method here though.
Re: Hobby Room
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2022 2:37 pm
by Sir Henry
daytime dave wrote: ↑Tue Nov 01, 2022 11:11 am
Gene, great hobby room. I have priced (only ) the Snap On tool chests. They are very costly.
I'm happy with my Craftsman and newly purchased Harbor Freight tool chests. Mine live in the barn though and only hold tools. I like your method here though.
Thanks Dave. I would have been happy with a Craftman if they made one the right size.