Just signed contract to have new home built for me and the future Mrs. Culpepper. Will have a daylight basement which will be my new trophy room. Will have to finish it myself as it will just be studed out. Y'all got any suggestions that will be helpful. I'm probably at least 4 months out before I start my part of the project.

trophy room 101: 1/2" min plywood under all sheetrock so you can stick a mount anywhere on any wall.

Camphor some corner walls. This will give you 36" of usable space opposed to corners you won't be able to use.

That's a nice layout and beautiful mounts

No sunlight allowed. Any sunlight will fade the color out of your mounts in quick time. I keep it dark unless I'm in there then I turn on only those lights I need. My mounts hide's still look like they did on the animals. My buddy did his room at the same time with a reasonable amount of natural light, and 5 years later he has faded mounts and is unhappy.

I really like trophy rooms.I dont have a true trophy room of my own and dream that one day I will have one.When I sit in the room surrounded by my mounts I feel that my life has not gone to waste.My opinion on a room is that it should make you feel very good just looking at it.It should not be a spooky and uninviting place like a creepy barn,dark attic or Norman Bates motel type place.I dont think it has to be expensive just INVITING.I have seen alot of money spent on awful trophy rooms some by AR posters.

Are you going to have any type of water pipes, drains, sewers, washing machines or toilets above your trophy room? One of the major state universities had a multimillion dollar gun collection. A pipe broke in a custodians closet on the floor above flooding the gun collection.

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Originally posted by David Culpepper:
Just signed contract to have new home built for me and the future Mrs. Culpepper. Will have a daylight basement which will be my new trophy room. Will have to finish it myself as it will just be studed out. Y'all got any suggestions that will be helpful. I'm probably at least 4 months out before I start my part of the project.

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Originally posted by SBT:
Camphor some corner walls. This will give you 36" of usable space opposed to corners you won't be able to use.

My living room is exactly like that. Unfortunately the wife decided that the TV and portraits of the kids would look better than my bison, cape buff or muskox.

Women.