> already too many instruments in our non-dining room

I mentioned this to Herself, and she nodded sympathetically: unkind words like "clutter" are sometimes heard when she's dusting the dining room.* But if I don't have the instruments to hand when said hands are idle, how will I practice :-) ? As it is, both the banjolele and the bouzouki stay in their cases for lack of floor stands, which makes them less likely to casually get picked up and played.

I really must agitate for modern houses to have picture rails, so instruments can be hooked from them, and we'd get the floorspace back.

* I maintain a tactful silence on the subject of jigsaws.