I am looking for advice form those that have gone through the process of buiding out, adding on, or moving in order to house your growing collections. I am hoping to get some advice/opinions and learn from mistakes you made along the way in regard to the build out.
Can you please share some insight.
Thinsg like:
Did you have a plan for set # before expanding your space?
Did you out grow your new space?
Did you build in dedicated space for cab work, shop out room, parts storage, etc?
What do you wish you had done differently?
What do you really like?
Anything really that you can share on things to make it better, avoid, etc would be greatly appreciated.
I ask as our collection is now passing the 40 game threshold and I am putting them in the climate controled storage till the addition, build out, or moving to a bigger place comes to fruition in a year or so. We have many options on the table which include moving slightly out of town where we could build a cleary barn as large as we want, knocking down our current garage and building a 3 story garage (basement w spancrete for project work, main floor for cars in the front and barspace/lounge in the back, and top floor with room for 50 games), or add a story on the house to fit 20 more inside. Basically we have lots of options at this stage and are just at the begining of planning so now is the time to gather feedback.
In an eventual state i would like to have ~70-100 (my current thoughts) and would like to be able to host/open the collection a couple times each year for gatherings and competitions.
thanks in adavance!
If anyone does not want to discuss in public then PMs are cool also.