Jim, I did the bed/bath room darkroom back in my college days; when we got a house a couple of decades ago I started to eye the bathroom up as a darkroom and my wife stepped in and said, "how about the garage", end of story. I built an addition over the newly removeled garage and put the darkroom up there. My son is off to dorm life this comming fall. I feel the pressure of the void of what college money he will need already. We saved, a little, but it is never enough. I need to take my gear, get a hackeysackoline vehicle and go back to nature for the next year.
After my tour, isn't that a joke...tour, in Vietnam I was going to really see America when I got back, never did, married and off to college then work and well... life. When does life really start?
The only way around deep pockets is to get rid of the pants.