my new trophy room
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I recently bought a house built back in the 80's. It had been sitting idle with no one living in it for close to five years. I just about ripped the house down to the studs and I am re-building it. I good part of what sold me on the house was the potential for my trophy room. It is a pretty large room, close to 22'x25' w/ 8' tall ceilings. I am going in 8' on each side and then going up 42" before following the remaining slope of the roof. This will give me 42" of vertical wall space all the way down both sides of my man cave/trophy room so I can put bone on the walls. Attached are pics of how it looks right now. My next step is to do the lighting, but Iam trying to figure out the best way to do it. I am thinking about putting some thick crown molding along the 42" vertical wall sides and then hide rope lighting above it to help like up deer I will be adding to the wall here soon and hopefully over the next bunch of years. Let me know what you guys think and what maybe I can do. I'm open to anything.
I'm going to rip all the rest of the sheet rock out and blow the entire thing with spray in insulation. I'm going to re-stone the fireplace all the way to the top of the roof line. There will be a tv above the fireplace and hopefully a big old elk above that one day. In the bottom picture the left closet is going to become my bow/gun/safe closet (you can already see one safe in there now that I keep the bows in so I can shoot as I work on the house). In the bottom picture you can also see the air return at the very top. Hopefully I'll have a big bull moose there one day hanging slightly below it. Floor are going to be some type of dark tile or slate. I was thinking about running wood planks long ways in the very top cathedral part of the roof, but I didn't want it to take away from the mounts that I might have hanging there down the road.
Can't wait to see it done and filled
WOW thats going to look great. Good luuck
So far---so good.
Keep us posted as ya progress.
Good luck, Robb
That is great! Maybe some recessed can lighting behind each mount, just a thought.
Jim
I doubt rope lighting will provide enough light unless you have a rope product I'm not familiar with. I'd put T8 flourescents and 1x4 boxs to hide them along the corner of the walls at the ceiling. Then you can get different color flourescents to give the right feel for that room. The indirect lighting will add a lot to that room. Mike
Mike- you got a picture of that? Sounds cool.
Hang plywood on your walls to render every square inch of wall space capable of placing a mount. That way you are not merely relegated to stud locations.
Like Owl said, I put black 1/2 OSB over the entire walls, then did the barnwood thing over that. More than enough strength to hold up my buff anywhere I want to put him.
Also, I went with the can lighting. They dont hang down and take away from yer mounts and they put out enough light to light up the whole room. My room is roughly 18x24 and 4 can lights do the job.
We are moving to the home next door, so all of my lighting work and scratch coat for stone is for not...
But, I went with 6" can lights using 65w bulbs. In our new place I'm going to do a can in each corner and do them about 18" out from the walls around the perimiter about every 4.5 feet.
The room I have now there are 13 cans and 2 spots...
You cannot go wrong with adjustable LED can spots along with the 6" cans...
A few hundred bucks, and if you are doing this pre-drywall they are even cheaper than re-model cans and such.
My dad went with a few LED spots in his room they built.
Use a few extra switches as well so that you can do one wall, some spots, etc... and be able to switch up the lighting options.
Here's our new place we move-in Sept. 30th... Just after Archery Moose, Bear, and Deer season is over.
My new trophy room will be better, it has 9' ceilings rather than 7'6" like the current room, and it is 27' X 18'.
Don't want to hijack this thread, but Mathews Man, could you post some close-ups of that half-bear mount with the habitat...? I'm usually not a big fan of those types of mounts, but that one looks good. Details please.
Wild1- I'll PM you my e-mail and snap a photo for you.
Sorry to hijack you Trey, hopefully some of the light pictures help you out.
I'd place your mounts and things up and then determine where you want them with Can lights if you can.
Still amazed we are buying this house at the price we are paying... We've been trying for 14 months to close on the house we live in (next door to this place) paying full appraisal on a Short-sale, the bank turned the seller down and the same day our neighbor showed up asking us to purchase his house.
Timing is everything.
I would disagree with plywood under layer. I have barnwood and it can hold just about everything. I drywall screw or anchor will handle most other mounts. Even if you have a cat you can adust the hangers to hit two studs. You will spend a bunch of money that will have little use.
It looks like you have it all figured out and so if you have anything really heavy then add some bracing now.
Looks awesome.
I just put sheet rock underneath my barnwood. Painted the sheet rock black before installing the barnwood... I will NEVER regret that and highly recommend doing it, even if you go with plywood behind the wood. Small holes and imperfections in lining up the boards will not be noticeable. My barnwood is on the ceiling though... nothing hangs from it.
If I WERE to put it on the side walls I'd definitely go with some sort of backing like plywood, but I'd still paint it black. That additional support on the back will come in handy and allow you to hang your animal anywhere you want. Also, if you have insulation directly behind the barnwood some sort of backing would be a good idea... in my opinion.
Do you guys have some more pictures of the barn wood backing? I have access to weathered western red cedar fence pickets and I was thinking of using them somewhere in the design?
As I said, I used 1/2" OSB on the walls. Not only can I hang mounts anywhere but, being painted black (this is really like a charcoal color but, it was 5 gallons of oops paint for $20) it creats the shadow effect for the cracks thru the barnwood.
This is the barn loft floor we used vertically to 4' high then used the 2x4s trimmed to 2x3s for the chair rail.
Even though it is minimal, the OSB and barnwood also create additional insulation factor.
Well, I got the pics backwards. That one shows us getting close to done with one wall. This one should be with the lower section started.
Well, that didnt work out right. Try it again
UPDATE: Thanks for all the post and the pms. Especially the one about the header above my door not being not strong enough.
I bought 12 of the 4" LED directional lights, 8 will go in the cathedral ceilings and the other four will be on the flat 8' tall ceilings close to the main wall with the fireplace. 6 more 6" can lights will be put into the 8' ceiling. All of those lights will be on a total of three switches; 6 LEDs along fireplace wall on one switch, the remaing 6 LEDs on the cathedral ceiling on one switch and the last 6 regular 6" cans on the third switch. All three switches will be on dimmers.
Plywood will be used on both 42" vertical walls.
Insulation on 8' ceilings and 42" vertical walls will be R30. Insulation in 8' walls is R13and the insulation in the cathedral ceilings works something like this....
2x6 joists. I put 1.5" vents to the decking to make sure the air could vent out of the top of my roof. Then I put aluminum barrier foil w a R3.9 value. Then I'm going to fill the rest of the 2x6 with R19, but being that it is going to be a little tight in the 2x6 I think it is going to be closer to a value of R16. Under that I plan on using two sheets of r-matte which each have a value of r5 (3/4" thick each) and then the sheet of drywall. So if I'm correct I'll have. 3.9+16+5+5= a value of almost 30. I'm no expert by anymeans but I think I'm on the right track. It was either this or pay someone a bear hunts worth of money to spray foam it for me.
I'll posts some update pics soon.
On my addition I put 1" OSB or 2 layers pf 3/4" Plywood between the 2 x 6 studs and drywalled over the top of everything. So I could hang my heads anywhere I wanted to.
North wall which used to be the outside wall of the house.
It's been a minute or two but here are some updated pictures of the man cave/ trophy room/ wife escape.
Looks great! After a 2 year hiatus too!
The vertical walls where the deer mounts are hanging have plywood behind the sheet rock as suggested here. The closet is my little inside the house hunting closet. The door has an electronic lock on it just to keep the honest guys out. I built the bar out of plywood, old pickets and welded the aluminum top on it. You can see my son in the background of one of the pictures with the fishing poles. He loves to fish so he is always tearing down the poles off the wall. That's about it. Hopefully I will have some more bone to add to the room soon.
That came together really well!
Very nice, I'm headed out the door for a monster elk I've waited 20 years to have the opportunity to hunt... See you guys when it's over.
Thats awesome, good luck with that tag man!!
Looks like a fun build. Your bar looks real nice in that room too! Well done.
Great job looks good.Good luck in the future hunts.
I found some other pictures of the in the progress stage. Good memories. I actually redid the entire house and this was only one room, but half the reason I bought the house was for this one room....
Bowsite....Never fails to amaze me! Awesome...
When I saw your photo of the "F*C**ll" the first thing that popped into my head was someone broke in and stole your stuff... Glad that was not the case!
Good work, it has come a long way.
Well done and much to proud of and thankful for.
Thanks guys. The bad writing on the wall came with the house when I bought it. Along with just about everything else broken, stolen or spray painted. On the down side, it was a lot of work to do. On the good side, that meant I was able to get it cheap. I can't wait to try and put some more bone on the wall this year.
That looks very nice! Giving me ideas. Thanks for sharing!
Trey,
Great update, and a really nice looking room. In one of your initial posts, you mentioned putting a nice elk above your TV screen....is that really possible.....will it really fit? Maybe I have the scale of the room wrong, or maybe you were considering a semi-sneak mount.....just curious.....