Being blessed to have a wife who has always understood my wanting to have a study, I have always had one. Usually just one of the spare bedrooms, but it has always been mine to decorate, do and enjoy as I wish. So I thought I'd see what others study's are like, or if they don't have one, maybe their hobby area.

I'll start by sharing a few pics of my current study, in the house we moved to recently after we downsized.  I can say that it has evolved over the years. I can also say I spend many hours of reading, researching and doing most of my figure cleaning and conversions in this room (on the floor in hte middle of the room). I also have a small painting room that is not quite so neat, but a painting area usually isn't. OK, here's my study







Behind those closet doors are more and more books, mostly on uniforms, and many of the paperbacks I've read.

I look forward to seeing what others have to share.

Terry

His Study

Quoteafter we downsized

QuoteI also have a small painting room

I'm not at all jealous

Some very impressive uniforms there

Attractive, but I'd have expected a sabre or katana on the wall....

Downsized?

That room looks bigger than my entire ground floor....

Very jealous

Down sized?  

I have a  small table in the living room to paint on and occasional use of the dining table coupled with top cupboards crammed with enough lead and cardboard to constitute a health and safety hazard!

My house is too small to have a study. To be honest I think we were lucky the builders managed to find room for the toilet

I have no study, BUT when renovations are done, we will have 4 bedrooms while we only have two kids, so I'm 'guiding' my wife to a repurpose of that room.

You DO NOT see my (HAH!) study.

The only person on the forum who has, is Meirion....And if he ever posts ANY piccies.......

Cheers - Phil

You threatenin me ?

very nice looking room and collection.

I'm afraid my painting space is a converted loft room, far too messy to photograph. I've also hobby items (part finished, or just in-storage) dotted throughout the house and the out-buildings. Whoops!

Our study is full of nature books and paraphernalia.

Front room display cabinets; back room study, out back spray booth, stair storage, front bedroom, storage, back bedroom waiting for daughter to move her stuff so it can become a full time games room.

In the Bathroom I keep a small bookshelf.

Yup. Every room used for something useful.

Quote from: petercooman on 28 July 2017, 08:51:43 AM
I have no study, BUT when renovations are done, we will have 4 bedrooms while we only have two kids, so I'm 'guiding' my wife to a repurpose of that room.

'guiding' ??  Put your foot down and tell her that's its now classified as the wargames room. 

P.S Sleeping in the shed is not too bad, its the surviving on the bread thrown out for the birds that's a bit demeaning 

I'll play along.    Since we don't have any kids, we decided to use our master bedroom as our office and use one of the smaller rooms as our bedroom.  Who wants such a large room for spending so little time in there?  Anyway, so I get a portion for my hobby stuff.  Only requirement was it had to be "classy" looking, so she picked the furniture.  My paint desk is next to a cabinet that has all my paint brushes, paints, tools, etc.  I have them all on trays or containers so I can take out what I need.  It sounds tedious, but after I got my system it only take me a couple of minutes to have it all setup and painting.  Maps of Antietam and Gettysburg on the wall for inspiration.



Then I have a display for my "show off" miniatures.  It ranges from 10mm to 54mm.  Everything else is boxed up in a closet and along with my lead pile.  And then I have a bookshelf of game rules, historical references, etc.





The real truth of the matter though is I'm slowly being overran by the play area of our cats Freya, Arwen, and Porthos.  I think this might be sneaky plot of my wife's to slowly move me to the garage.  Crazy cat people we are...

Great Looking Room FlngSqrl! Glad you shared it!  Yes, it does seem like the cats also have a claim on the room as well.

My pursuit of a dedicated study started back in the early 70's when I got a bookcase with three shelves for my books and stuff. I still have that bookcase, which is now in the closet holding rule books, more uniform books, etc. Oh, and that book case had to share the room we used for watching TV/the den as we only had a 2 bedroom apartment at the time.

Some one thought my current study is a large room, but it's not really - being 13 x 14 is all. Before we downsized I had a much larger room about 18 x 22. That room had a gaming table a library table, a love seat, the two chairs I have now, and many more bookcases. I don't miss it though because I had to clean it, but I try to keep my study tidy - my painting room, a 6 x 8 room, not so much so!

Terry

Thought I would share what happens when you decide to remove the carpeting the builder put in, because it is so cheap all it does is buckle, with hardwood to match the rest of the house. First step was moving everything but the larger furniture pieces out of the room - UGH! Took me two days!!!


It went from this


To this


And this


So they could do this


To result in this....and I am so happy with the results. Bottom line, it was worth it, but let's not do it again anytime soon please! Took 8 days to put it all back - well all except two large boxes of books that are going!

Terry

I might throw up some pictures in about 6 months, but decorating at the mo. My study is not my wargames room, but it is where I keep a lot of my history books.

Oh, please do as I'd love to see it.  just please don't call it a "man cave" as that is way to redneck for me!

Terry