New house - New room for my collection

Hi All

Thought I'd share this with you as I'm sure you'll be interested! I have been digging and preserving WW2 relics for more than 20 years now, and have amassed quite collection of stuff.

Three weeks ago we moved house. Our new house has a double garage and my wife kindly agreed to letting me have one half for a new War Room to house my collection. She was pleased it wasn't going to be in the house any more me thinks!

Anyway, 2 weeks after the move, work started on dry lining and kitting out the garage half. Managed to get it all done, with help from friends and family, over one weekend, then all I had to do was move the collection in!

I am very pleased to say I am nearly finished.

Still got to label everything, but with this room being at least twice as big as my old War Room, I’ve been able to spread things out a lot more.

It was a hell of a lot of hard work but I am so pleased I’ve done it as my new War Room is BLOODY AWESOME!!!

Hope you like it :) :)

Everything in cabinets has been recovered by my own fair hand, and quite a bit of what is out of cupboards as well!!! Still amazes me the amount of WW2 relics out there, waiting to be found.

Everything you see is completely inert and abides by all current firearms legislation. There is not one ounce of explosive/propellent in the room and not one single item could be made ‘live’ ever again.

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What do you reckon? I think it's better than before. Been able to spread stuff out so you can actually see it!

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RRPG

Can I stay at your house in that room for like a fair while I am green with envy nice collection bloke champion :super::super:

Nice, hope you are enjoying it and continue to fill it up!

Lots of nice stuff there, I wonder if we've seen some of it in passing. It's the sort of room that several of us could spend hours in chatting and going over things. Stories about where it was found lead to other stories of course...nice. Most of us are short of room and somewhat restricted in what we show...

Thanks all :) And yes Cinders........just bring a sleeping bag and you can kip round whenever you like :)

That's amazing! We just got a new kitchen, which is nice, but not even on the same level...

Russ

#6 one thing that one learns early in life is to keep the cook happy I for one would not want to have a new room added for my stuff at the expense of a new kitchen that is flirting with danger, but after the kitchens in say Geez I need more room!!!!

Quite simply awesome! I have been eyeing those Ikea glass cabinets. May I ask your impression of them? They seem ideal for helmet display.

Thank your wife for me.

LOL!! Wife thanked for you :) She gave me (you) a kiss for it.

The Ikea cabinets are great, but the shelves are not for heavy items. 3.5kg max. Otherwise, very cheap and show of stuff very well :)

Thanks!
I went by Ikea on the way back from a fun show out of state and picked one up based on the way yours looked. Kind of a 2 man job to assemble but
I was able to pull it off alone. I like it a lot.