So as promised, a few more pics of my space; both the gaming space and the painting space, now closely adjacent to one another.
Here's a sort of general overview of the space from the southwest corner looking back to the northeast. You can see the primary table in the foreground, presently (and usually) hosting Logansport, since that's my principal setting. In the background on the right you can see a pool table that doubles as the secondary gaming table. Right now I've got a spaceport set up on it with a few new and partially completed buildings as I test fit them for a new location called Landing on Proserpine. And in the center background you can see the painting desk. It's a basement, so inevitably a certain amount of stored debris in need pf use or deaccessioning: a spare dryer, a bunch of soda from an event, shipping packages. But it's not as bad as the photo compression makes it appear. (There's plenty of clear space to comfortably game or work.)
Here's the secondary table with a view of some stored terrain and a filing cabinet full of mostly game related things in the background. There's some decent adventurey related mementos and bric a brac stored nearby that will be more visible when I can get rid of the soda and the dryer.
Here's a Logansport again, with some terrain and miniatures in the background, as well as boxes of books in need of rehoming and . . . assorted junk. I am buried in junk.
Here's an overview of the painting corner now that it's more or less finalized and in use. I need to screen the sewer stack somehow, but that's tomorrow's problem. I've got shelves, drawers, and storage close at hand. There's plenty of light from a shoplight hung over the desk and a magnifying lamp and arm clamped to it. (My eyes just aren't quite what they once were.)
Not visible is a third small table on which a small skirmish game could be set up. I've also used a rolling cart to set up small scenes from time to time. (Though mostly it serves as a staging area and a place to roll dice. The small table will probably serve a similar purpose going forward, but . . . it's flexible.)
Honestly, I'm pretty happy. It needs some redecoration and more cleaning and organizing, but the last couple of weeks have been pretty good. Quite happy with where this is going. The basement stays a bit more clement in the balmy Midwestern US summers. (And it's good shelter should a really nasty storm come rolling through trying to place portions of my house on top of some wicked threat or other. So far I've always dodged that particular freight train, but you really don't ever want to be caught without shelter when you don't dodge it.) And while there is a bit of water that's about to get in from the remnants of a hurricane powerful enough to travel a thousand miles inland, it's just leaks. Nothing a mop and a dehumidifier can't fix.
