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Well, first of all, the size of a layout and therefore the room to put it in, depends on the scale. An O gauge layout requires about 4 times the size of the same set-up in HO scale, while an N scale layout would "only" need a little less than a third of that foot print. Second, you need to consider the time and the money you can dedicate to your layout. I know of a lot of people who bit off more than they could swallow in terms of layout size and time it takes to get it up and running. I am 60 and I´d never start a project taking me more than 10 years to get the first train running. Third, the size of a layout is irrelevant to the amount of fun you can have building and operating it. My personal motto is "the smaller, the better"! I am right now finishing the planning stage of a 2 by 2 ft. Z scale layout, which would be 2´9" by 2´9" in N scale, or 5 by 5 ft. in HO scale, or over 9 by 9 ft. in O sscale.
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