Not weird at all, I have the same problem, I live in a small 1 bed apartment (about 660SqFt) I have several ways of maximizing the space, I think I could easily fit upto about 20 planes in the apartment (if a little cramped).

When I rented the apartment, I was looking for large living spaces and small none living spaces. What I mean is the front room and bedroom are a large size but the kitchen, dining area and bathroom etc are small. Don't have a dining table or if you do have a very small one in the corner, use the dining area as storage. My dining area is a desk and workbench all on a very nice table (well it was when I got it). I currently have 5 working planes and have just obtained 2 more kits, I have a stand in my bedroom build of 1/2" PVC plumbing tube that holds 4 of the planes, I am going to update the stand to hold the 5 and so on. I should be able to get this stand to hold about 8 or maybe even 10 planes.

When you have a place try to imagine your furnature (try for as little as posible) and stuff and then think of where you can put it all, take a note book and a tape measure and get the dimentions of each room and each bit of funture make scale paper representation of everything and try each combination until you find something that works, I keep doing this in my head, it is not as good, but it does work.

Also limit the size of the planes don't buy 5 1/4 scale planes as this won't work.

The hardest part is not having a good workshop for good shop tools.

I am very interested in what others in the same situation have done.

HTH

James