Check this out. My layout is in the front room 👍🤪
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An adversary relationship is trouble! If the spouse has a different hobby, fair is fair. Compromise is the key.
Some husbands tell their buddies they are the boss, but in reality, when she says jump, they ask how high!
I worked with a gal who said "happy wife, happy life, but her husband had a vintage Corvette. At first she told me she complained about the cost of parets, but as the restoration progressed, she ot it. When an item is delivered, she just ask's him, "and that would be for where on the car?"
My spouse gets it, and we have two large spaces in our basement. A gym, which we both use, and my trains. The pull up bar ended up in the garage, and I gave up a 4 ft. by 12 inch
length on the end of my layout expansion. Now I have 4 to 6 structures with no room for.
I'll figure it out though. Corners of benchwork are of little use with R2, R3, and R4 curves. I made one a golf course scene with two holes and a sand trap. Another has a workers duplex house, and an out shed.
Three Alpine village theme buildings are Dept. 56 porcelain, and a bit over scale (about 1/72), so they may end up used under the Christmas tree.
As it turned out, I have the space for the extra 18 inch end, and it's only short because I recycled a set of hollow core bi-fold closet doors that were 7 feet. Plywood was scarce and expensive last year. I joined the hinged sections with metal braces, and added thind wooden strips so they stay flat. Nice and light to handle. I made 2x4" cross beams and monted the bench on them. Then I attached 4 inch diameter round steel legs with levelers.

I have a large room all to myself. Layout and a PC with a nice chair to relax with a beer. My wife has no interest in model rail and probably does not even know I have one. However her hobby is the garden and she does anything she wants with it. Works out well as in summer I can sit in the garden and in winter play with the railway. In winter my wife plans and orders the seeds etc ready for next summer and plants the stuff for spring. Appears to work well and we dont know what each of us spend on our hobby. Off now to sit in the garden and watch the sun go down.