Got married later in life, and now it's been a couple years and the damn stork is working full time so are blessed with some babies.

Wife doesn't like taxidermy, so keeping the peace with her has meant it's been in storage until we can get a new place.

We are looking at moving (not sure where yet) and building a new house.

I had this idea of doing a 12 foot ceiling on the basement floor of the new house with the house buried into the side of a hill. If we can get back deep enough and the angle of the hill is shallow enough I was thinking I could bury the eyesore of a 12 foot tall basement/garage floor in the side of the hill.

Then have a machine shop, wood shop and trophy room (3 spaces) downstairs and a garage.

Flip side is buy a house and build a trophy room as an addition or into a new shop.

What do you think would be a better option?

Build what you want/need.

Just like the salesman told me when purchasing my gun safe. He said, figure what you'll need, then buy the next size larger. That was good advice but I'm now in need of the larger size yet!

Build that trophy room a bit larger than you think you'll need. They tend to fill up quickly. Especially if you start putting a few life sized animals on the floor.

If you go with the basement it is cheaper to build up than out.

Jim

up is cool, but trophies tend to not look so dramatic if it is hard to make eye contact.

I had my Buff up high, and people were always commenting on how nice his neck looked. Now, he is closer to eye level, and they give guests the "look at you as if you owe them money..." stare that Ruark wrote about.

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Originally posted by Singleshot03:
If you go with the basement it is cheaper to build up than out.

Jim

Good to know, thanks a lot.