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My wife and I have our house for sale. We've move a bit over the past few years, but plan to be relatively "settled" after our next move. (we're 30-ish, with a baby boy). We'll likely have a 2-car garage, of which I'll get one half. I have to share this half with other things - drums and workbench/shop area. I'm really thinking a 4 x 8 may be the way to go. A 4 x 8 with a backdrop down the center (much like the layout in MRP 2006). This will give me two scenes, as well as a purely "linear" looking design - you don't see any looping action, etc. Yet, I'll still have continuous running on a small layout. The layout could be used as a "divider" between my "dirty" section of the garage (tools, bench, etc.), and my "drums" area of the garage (nice music equipment that I don't want dust around, etc.) There seems to be a lot of 4 x 8 hating these days, but with a scenic divider down the center of it, it meets a lot of the same qualifications of other linear layouts, only smaller. There's always a walk-in option, but then the layout really becomes only semi-portable. A 4 x 8 on casters could easily be shoved out of the garage when I need the space for something else. I think purely switching layouts look really cool with their linear design, but I just don't think I'll be satisfied without continuous running. Thoughts?
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