Home Renovation Ideas: Creating Your Man Cave
Posted by Nancy Berger on Mon, Oct 03, 2011
OK, you’ve decided to do a little home renovation in, say, a 14 x 14 spare room. This could be a newly-remodeled basement space or a recently emptied bedroom from your child’s departure for college. Let’s be optimistic and assume said child will not be coming home for any permanent roosting for the foreseeable future. The space is now all yours.
Where shall we start? Begin with some long, serious thinking about what you want to do in this space, and try to project a few years into the future, too.
Do you want a 70” TV so you can practically feel yourself in the dugout with the, hopefully, World Series-winning Phillies? Super Bowl-winning Eagles? Jets? Giants? Yankees?
Do you want to stream live concerts through your Netflix or other TV subscription?
Do you want to have the guys over for regular games of poker? Will there be cigars? Lots of raucous noise?
Or will this space be solely your own, singular cave of solitude?
Few things to consider from the get-go: space for a small fridge, microwave and pantry space for refreshments; easy-to-care-for surfaces for food and drink; and very good air ventilation so your room doesn’t small like stale popcorn ( or cigars :-( ) within a week!
Do you have sofas, chairs and coffee tables you can re-purpose or do you want to start from scratch?
A custom built-in entertainment and storage center will afford you any number of design and organization options, like drawers, shelves, depth and future expandability.
If it’s all about the TV, you’ll definitely need a home theatre system or at least a good sound system – and plenty of built-in sound isolation.
Will you need a sleeper sofa for that transient child or guest – or will space for an air mattress suffice?
There’s so much more to consider, like electricity, lighting and plumbing needs, but with the right planning and the help of professional home renovators, you can, indeed, create the space of your dreams. Cave on, man -- and click below for some great savings!
