Poor mans trophy room or lodge

Since I've been battling an injury this hunting season, which has kept me from doing a whole lot in the outdoors I've been playing around with my home trying to make it look like a hunting lodge....this is the start....now no real trophy whitetails but lots of good memories(found out I suck at trophy hunting), mostly all bow kills on stateland or junk farms....

Looking for some good lodge type ideas to finish my lodge...
Fishing, trapping, or what ever you might have pictures of on how you have done your trophy lodge rooms....
Also looking for a vintage crow mount to put in the branch....

Looks great! I've got to decorate the front porch but don't laugh to much yet it's 26' x 60' and I hope to fill it with all sorts of fun stuff ha ha
Allan

Pair of old snowshoes,and a hooped beaver?Beartrap?

How bout an old trap or two

fine your self a big old bee hive pair of snow shoe

My trophy room is 14X27
I have every rack I've shot mounted, even spikes
Now that Lyme has damaged my memory I am glad that I do, I wrote a name on the back of every plaque, that reminds me of the hunt. One us "tractor" which reminds me that the nieghbor's was brush-hogging his field just 50 yards away when that buck came to me

And lots of pictures
Fish and turkeys

Just installed new entry door and new flooring
And some shed antlers, and skulls found

Have been trying to figure out for the past few years how to display more fur, think I got it figured out but it involves holes in my solid wood doors so hesitating to do it

Looking good! Add some hanging fur and traps.

Bee hive is on my list, I've been searching, want put it up in the tree above the antlers.

Snowshoes is a most, I want a unique set, some day I'll find them....

Traps are going up for sure, have some vintage trapping catalogs, like Hudson Bay and others....
Have my furs just need to get them tanned....

Michigan trappin, great job...

Any more ideas?

Beaver chewed stump

Birch bark Indian stuff.

That's a great idea....
Found one while scouting for bobcat...now I need to go get it...

A leather wingback chair.

Mike

Got this wall done last night....my great grandfathers 410/22

A "Beer-ater".

^^^^^ what's a beer-Ater lol

A few wall hanger furs for sure. But what might look really cool? Find an old Coleman lantern, and wire it as a hanging light fixture to replace the one in the picture?

You need some fur in that room. I took an old weathered board drilled a few holes in it, placed short pieces of dowel rod and hung some furs on it.

That's looks nice...I do have fur just need to send it out for tanning.....

This will be mine if I ever get the thing built. Cut the logs myself, peeled them and notched them. Lot of work.

Here's a notch.

My living room

Monster whitetail. Story behind that?

Scored 180 inches.My biggest whitetail deer.

Good start!
Wood! Put those mounts on a wood wall!
If you can find an old cedar fence that has blown down, ask if you can dismantle it for free and save what you can.

Waggler,you need some filling for your snowshoes.

That's looking good so far. And some great ideas on the replies.

Make yourself a Rustic Bench. Place between the window & corner. 5 pieces of firewood equals a poor man's bench. That will give you something else to do...lol.





Add some ole trapping, hunting & fishing signs...

My den

This is something different if you can find one. Bears leave their calling cards on trees to make their presence known. I found one on a friends property and turned it into a lamp. Shade courtesy of the local Amish. The claw marks are clearly visible and there is still hair trapped in the bark.

gotta have tanned fur's,will have a couple more pics later.

Great ideas.....
Nice bench work Hern....
Bruce T that's the look I want, I have a ways to go.....
Pcr2 great color phase display on those coyotes.....
Posco, nice, I need to find a bear clawed tree.....

This will be interesting as I'm also in the middle of doing a room. Two things I'm looking for is one different ways to trim the window and two is a ceiling light. Don't like any bought ones so far. I'm leaning at making my own. Say maybe a old minnow bucket. This is another room we did this summer. Fake beams. It is a living room-kitchen area.

Dug out a small bench I had.....some vintage trapping catalogs
Color phase black bear went up...not sure if I like him there but I have no rug on him...

Thanks! I looked for one of these for a long, long time and eventually stumbled onto one when I was out looking for places to put bear baits. This one broke the ice because I've found several since.

I want to thank you guys for being so welcoming to a new poster. You've all been great. I had to pass a background check more stringent than the military requires in order to post here. Just kidding, but Paul wanted to make sure he wasn't letting an anti in here. I completely understand that.

My “poor mans trophy room” is about six feet by 3 feet by 3 feet. Well one of them is. I have three and try to keep them full all the time.

My All Purpose Boy has a cool "Bear Tree" on his property. It's an old Beech that has claw scars from several generations of bears. It is mostly hollow and will topple one of these first days. We hope to save a section of the trunk to put in his man-room, which is basically his entire log home. If he changes his mind I will save it to somehow display in my place.

Here is a lamp I made for my All Purpose Girl. Crap! I can't rotate the darn things!

At any rate, it was made from a beaver log that I dredged up somewhere.

My hunting room.






I did the trim around the window myself. They are all beaver chews from my sister's property. It took almost 2 months start to finish.

Cool man room DD!

Thanks! To bad I won't have it much longer. My wife is pregnant with our 3rd, so that is gonna be our new daughters room. We have two boys already (10 and 12) and we were hoping for a girl. Well, our wish came true, then I was informed that I'd be loosing my hunting room. So, I informed her that either our bedroom or the living room would be my new hunting room.

Every "den" needs something like this. There are over 400 bacula in this "coffee table" from 16 species. Took several years to accumulate all the parts. Table is quaking aspen (trembling aspen).



Jack

Beautiful !

dude that table is crazy awesome

The Bears in this area like to scratch up on power line poles where they can find them. I'm pretty certain if I whack one of those down for cabin decor I'm going to get an unwanted visit from upset people.
Osky

pcr and Bruce (and others)... I really like the "cluttered" look. Seriously. In my opinion, there should be virtually no wall showing, with every square inch telling another story or providing a memory. Well done!

Jack

Like the table.
Finally get to see some aspen used in furniture. I would expect it is easy to work with?
None of the mills I have asked do anything with it except chip it for pulp wood. I have been tempted to spend the time riving some into boards with wedges and a froe to give it a try. I've got some nice clear trembling and big tooth aspen growing a couple places on my land.
Any tricks to working it? does it warp a lot, plane fuzzy, etc... I have lots of other kinds of wood but have always wondered about aspen.

gryhkl. Aspen is one of the few "hardwoods" I have available to mill. Unfortunately, very soft wood. On the other hand, colors can be fantastic. Too, it doesn't seem to "yellow" with age, like everything else that I have in this country. For this table, the aspen was milled, then stacked and stickered for 3 years in a garage, then planed and used. Of course, very stable after that much time. I really like the stuff, and the whites, blacks, and reds are beautiful. No planing fuzz, no warp/cup/twist.

Jack

Put up my Trapper Nelson pack, just the pack for now, I'm in the process of making the wood frame for the pack...bear is mid 60's just a nice vintage pelt even if it's quite small....

All beautiful rooms!

Here is my den it is small 10 x 12. I have mounts etc. in my living room. I really like everyone's cave I can't imagine not surrounded with nature.

Now that's nice Snowy!!! Nice antler collection also....

Few of my fathers recurve bows hung up....he loved bowfishing for carp...Fred Bear style....

Some nice displays guys.Here is a picture of my living room.

Dont forget a USA flag looks good!

Couple of Joe Goodman's prints would look good there.

His prints look good anywhere.

Great looking Trophy Room guys! I'll be looking for a nice beaver chewed stump for a lamp, I like it! I have a lot of fur tanned, haven't really displayed them yet...

Here's my cluttered den.








Sometimes it looks like this...

posting so i can go back for ideas! great job all who posted.

Trapper Nelson pack, didn't have a frame so I made one, sure it's not accurate but close enough...

Few more bows up...

Playing with this, not sure I'll keep it up....

Found this print at a junk shop in the UP..Until I get some antique dbls I'm using this dbls as the base....

You have done a great job nice stuff. I was thinking of something like you have done in the picture but wasn't sure how I would attach the heads/horns. Looks good!

Thanks, it looks better in person...needs something, not sure what...the yellow arrow and bear quiver is my fathers last arrow he used in the field that I know of...

Snowy, what is that first picture on your wall with the small house?

If you are talking about the painting (small House) that has those horns hanging beside it? That is a painting I had done of my grandpa/grandma homesteaded house. The framing of that picture is from the trim of that old home. No power no running water they lived there till very late in life.

That is a great piece of art. I have a similar picture of the house my great grand dad was born in, but it’s just a photo, shortly before it was gone. Your painting looks so close. Amazing work by the artist.

I kind of always cherished that picture and the wood frame came from the trim of that old house. It had 3 rooms and they raised 7 children but not sure how. Some hard times in those years. LOL


This also was painted from a photo.

Set of vintage moose antlers....no lodge is complete until the moose antlers go up.....

You really do have a lodge! Beautiful place Sir.

Thanks

Can't wait until I get all my furs back....I'm on the hunt for antique dbls too...

Thanks TM member for the vintage Ulu knife.....

Down in the hood someone was demolishing an old home, picked up 11 of these doors for cheap......
Will bootleg them into my home and the rest I'll use to make a bookcase....
Thinking they will make great vintage looking lodge style doors....

Absolutely love this thread!

Picked this stuff up at a junk sale, plus a few boxes of junk for 28$
Chair is a rocker I'll put that on my porch...

changed a few things around...my favorite ducks, goldeneye.....

Few of my fathers old bear archery quivers and arrows....

I know it’s an old thread but I think it would be cool to see what everyone else has and to show off a little myself
Here’s mine

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I’m definitely planning on adding some more fur and I’ve got some other things going up very soon that I’ll keep posted

nice !!,

You Michigan dudes....

oh wait

You need a mudroom around the corner for sure.
Then it'll have that "mud on the boots" feel.

Blessings,
Mark

Hern,
What's your story on the Oshmans Card? Did you ship there from Pennsylvaina?
I grew up just south of Mankato and sold plenty of fur to Oshmans, and have a large collection of those cards

Camp

Come on now mark we all know you have a mancave that will make everyone drool so let’s see it