My trophies just arrived from SA, now Im suddenly realizing the room Ive set aside for them has low ceilings.... I have a Wildebeest, Zebra, Impala, and Nyala full shoulder mounts plus a couple European skull mounts. The mounts will "fit"; but I wish I had another foot or so above them.

Now Im wondering what do I do when I go back for the Buff and the Kudo?

Consider some pedestal mounts.

Jim,is right..ped mts both look and work well and you can dress them up real well also...

Pedestals will work but a Kudu an a pedestal will still be about 8 feet.

Of course the buff an a pedestal won't be that high.
Alternatively, you could shoot small ones.

Any reasonable way to raise the roof? I had the same issue in 2009. My solution, in a single story house, was to raise the ceiling four feet to follow the peaked roofline about ten feet towards the end of the house. The area raised is about ten feet long, and fourteen feet wide. A friend, is a retired contractor, did it with me as assistant and general go-fer.

Rich

Euro mounts for low ceiling or build high ceiling trophy room there is your options

New house?

Edelweiss, get your Wildebbest a wall pedestal semi-sneak they look great and can be hung quite high on a 8" ceiling scenario. The Nyala we change out a LARGE whitetail body shoulder wall pedestal and alter it to a nyala, by extending the neck and adding some mass to it and do the semi sneak for them It's a good pose for a low ceiling also. The zebra will fit no problem as well as the Impala on a low ceiling, Kudu semi sneak or sneak works very well. Zebra Wall pedestal...








Or Double Pedestal some of them ....





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lower the floor (sorry the devil made do it)

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
Any reasonable way to raise the roof? I had the same issue in 2009. My solution, in a single story house, was to raise the ceiling four feet to follow the peaked roofline about ten feet towards the end of the house. The area raised is about ten feet long, and fourteen feet wide. A friend, is a retired contractor, did it with me as assistant and general go-fer.

Rich

My hunting partner did the same. It snowballed into a full remodel and took forever.

Mark

It's just my two cents(and I know they mean little)spend the money on hunts instead of the mounts and what they look like in your trophy room. I am greatly awaiting my stuff back from zim, but I won't pay one cent to make my room bigger if I can save that money to go back sooner. A trophy(be it big or small if it's yours)is much more worth the experience and time you put into it. I have elk, deer, and bear scattered all around my house. I will soon have bushbuck, waterbuck, elephant ears, and baboon all over the house. if you have the money do it. If you are like me go hunting.

It never occurred to me to even consider the room height when I ordered the mounts. I had a house fire about 6 months before the hunt (just enough left to rebuild), and never thought about changing the room. Its in the finished basement, so there was no chance of raising the ceiling anyway.

My "problem" is I ordered full shoulder mounts for my Zebra, Wildebeast, and Nyala. My ceiling is about 8 foot high, so I have a choice between mounting them with them almost touching the ceiling or the floor. I cant undo these; but future mounts will be smaller, possibly pedestal and/or European.