apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

Uh, images of scantily-clad or un-clad women?

Relationship books, kitties, Manolos, back issues of Cosmo, yarn for knitting projects. . . little by little their girlfriends are moving in.

• Tackiness
• Lack of style
• Lack of girlfriends due to lack of style

ugh. Nothing wrong with liking sports or beer but I wouldn't base my decor around it.

Super duper gross.

Leather/Vinyl
Motion Furniture (Recliners)
Cup Holders
Pine or Oak (You'd think those were the only two kinds of trees on the planet...)
Bar-B-Que
Anything with a Remote Control...

Yawn. Were are the urinal pix.

Pinball games and other arcade games can be cool. What's missing? Regular console video games.

Sport team motif curtains are the weirdest thing I've ever seen. Not that I've seen them here, but I think if men knew about them, they'd want some curtains up.

I'm having trouble with this concept to tell you the truth. A bar that looks like a bar, centers around sports possibly, is a fine place to hang out, as long as the whole apartment isn't this bar. Rather a sport bar than a nightclub in the home, let me tell you.

When I think of the (new to me) words "man cave," I think of "girl repellent," and not the intentional "space of one's own" kind, but rather the one with all the hideous taste because he thinks it's awesome taste that makes all his potential lady-friends excuse themselves very quickly and never take his calls again.

I have a woman cave. A 10' x10' room painted, dark brown w/ hardwood floors and super yummy brown zebra patterned area rug. The 42" plasma is positioned on the wall so I can watch tv on my couch from Weego home either sitting up or laying down and I am flanked by a large taxidermied piranha as well as an alligator head. Perhaps I should submit a picture and show the boys how it is really done.

real men have bat-caves

Male? Yes. But also heterosexual, please.
'cause gay men have taste :)

My husband's future man cave will be a home theater-type space (with extra-insulated walls) where he can yell at the Bucs, Red Sox, Orangemen and NY Rangers without upsetting the household or neighbors. (One called once during a Bucs rant, thinking he'd found a snake in the house.)

To plan your man cave -- or your SO's -- here are a few tips:

http://jgkitchens.blogspot.com/2008/11/in-praise-of-man-caves-with-primer-for.html

BTW, if you turn to page 27 in this online magazine, you'll find some tips for Gal Caves, too:

http://www.tampaflair.com/may2008.htm