Thread: Work Space and storage

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Where do we all build are props and or store them?
Lets post some pics, as im sure some of u's have a area just for that.
I should be done with my new building space tonight and will post a pic of it. I cant wait till its done.

As for storage, i have stuff everwhere, guys hanging from rafters in the garge and so forth that I need to see all year. Kinda weird when someone walks into the garage and one of the corpses' arm is hanging down and you see his head.

I just build in my garage. If the weather is good, prop building moves into the driveway. As for storage, I have a 14x20 shed that used to be for the mower and such. Now it's prop specific. The shed is nearly busting at the seams, yet somehow each year I find new ways of utilizing the space. Next year I'm doing a new theme, departing from my traditional graveyard. That means new props, and no new places to store them. Maybe I'll need to expand the shed.

I am lucky enough to live in a 21 room house. In case anyone is wondering, NO ONE needs 21 rooms. We really only live in FOUR! So the FCG lives year round in an upper tower room in place. The lower tower room stays the same as well- only a TV for a projection ghost is set up every year in there. One of the cellar rooms stores the larger props, and an unused library has bins and boxes of small props. Oh, and an out building houses all the larger gravestones.

I build all over the house, wherever hanging space seems to be available. If it is something that can stand on its own, I can build it in the garage. Otherwise, it's hanging off the kitchen light fixtures, the curtain rods, you name it.

Storage is one of the reasons I like ghosts so much. You can fold them up and tuck two into a letter-sized filing box. Everything goes up in the attic. Thank goodness most of it is styrofoam, or the ceiling would collapse!

I build some of the smaller things at my house.
But, the bigger stuff gets built at the shed that we use for the maze. We also store the majority of the panels, doors, & scrap wood. I keep the majority of my props, lighting, & etc. in a heated storage area.

Front view outside of shed
http://www.mazeofterror.ifmclan.com/...s/EPSN0001.jpg

Shed w/ doors open view front to back
http://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...Anch=imgAnch10

Storage pile of piles along wall
http://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...Anch=imgAnch11

Shed view from back to front
http://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...Anch=imgAnch12

I primarily use our garage for buuilding and storage of the big stuff. Right now it holds the cemetery fence and columns, witch cauldron, three 4x8 sections of castle wall, coffin, "death chair", my pvc frames for static figures (about 5 of these). Smaller decorative props are stored in the basement under the stairs. We have 4 bins of stuff and some of it that won't fit is loose or stacked on shelves. I've had to move some things into our fruit cellar this year. There are now 4 of the posable Mr Jabberjaws skellies sitting on the shelves in there. I truly am running out of space, particularly for big things. I'm not one for clutter and frankly, my basement/garage haven't looked this good in three months now that everything is put away and cleaned up.

I squirrel it away where ever I can. In the attic, in the basement, in the garage. Wife loves to tell people that the number of Halloween storage boxes now greatly outnumbers the X-mas storage boxes. She came in yelling at me once this summer because she walked by the window in the garage, saw the silhouette of one of my figures standing there and it scared the crud out of her. lol. I've pretty much reached max capacity and am looking at having to add a storage shed if I accumulate any more stuff.

Originally Posted by boo who?

I am lucky enough to live in a 21 room house.

Twenty-one rooms?????? Is your last name Trump or Gates?????

hee hee hee

None of the above. Dad was a general contractor who built a huge house out of left over material! So I know that I come by my "Gee, what can I make out of THIS?" genes honestly.