Yea. Im no interior designer, though I do have styles Id go for if I had my own place and an unlimited budget. If it came to a place shared with a S/O though I could give less of a fuck if I wasnt "allowed" to have my guns and hunting stuff permanently stationed in the main rooms of the house. She wants to entertain guest and make us look half civilized by having IKEA stuff and banal paint colors? Go nuts. Dude marketing is fucking lame though. Every few years P&G tries and rebrand and start some sort of market for cosmetic products for guys. The meetings have to be epic, "We have such an established market with women we just need to crack the guys. We'll add in a bunch of Guy-dude-bro language to harden the edges of face creams for men. Subscription services are big let's try that! It's gotta work this time!" I saw some flushable wet wipes on the shelf "DUDE WIPES!" Same shitty wipes that still clog your system, just marked up 3.5x the store brand (for a smaller portion).
Personally I like all the “tactical” or “survival” or “military grade” man marketing. You know what military grade means? The product that meets the minimum standards, produced by the lowest bidder. My brother in law is all about these “survival axe” things or “survival shovels” which work as neither an axe nor a shovel, cost more than the individual “tools” purchased separately from quality manufacturers, and are always owned by someone who’s watched one season of Alone and is convinced they’re gonna built an off grid cabin in the woods.
Made a 6 hour round trip to go drop off Xmas presents to the distant relatives I have in Toronto... not a bad day for a road trip. My cousin lives in a $2m dollar house in Toronto. I don't know how to break it to him, but it's super close to being a shit hole. I cannot believe the property values in Toronto... it's beyond insane. He bought it for $1.2 after a total "rebuild", but it was done really, really poorly. Still has electrical issues where he has light switches that control lights in other room or stairwells... totally unrelated. I did not know how to react to the demonstration, other than with complete confusion.
I like the spirit of what the article is getting to but it isn't quite executable for us in our house. The downstairs den kind of operates like that room he describes but we do have a giant TV there. It's easy enough to just turn it off...
Oh dear. This whole new Covid variant was prophesied by the Italians almost 60 years ago. We're all properly fucked.
The average man these days has no interest in the sort of things you would use a study for. They're consumerist man-children. A den is just a bedroom that doesn't have a closet. Mine is currently a home gym.
Meh... my den has my 3d printer in it, a shit load of books, and a ton of booze... all in front of a nice, gas fireplace for warmth/ambience. I like to go in there to drink/read when I'm bored, and have time, or to just let something run on the printer. This is different than my home office that is filled with computers/monitors/electronics and huge uLine commercial shelving to store all the crap that goes with that.
Now that you’ve gotten all the mockery out of your systems, I have a room I call a man cave. We’ve got a 4 bedroom house - mine and my wifes room, my daughters room, and a guest room. The 4th is an office. We have a small family room that was largely given over to my daughter as a playroom years ago and it’s loaded with games, books, instruments etc. So I created a room, yes in the basement, with a minibar, beer fridge and wine fridge. I’ve got a TV of course and 3 different game systems. Dart board, heater, fishing rods, golf clubs, etc. it’s where I can play games or watch movies until the wee hours and I’m not keeping anyone up, or being interrupted. My daughter uses it sometimes to play on line with her friends. I like it, it’s cozy. So yes, a man cave. I tried Bro Hole but somehow that wasn’t quite right. Please don’t hit me Toytoy.
Just got my 4th kickstarter from Element Dice. All the dice except(Rh,Ag,Pt,Au) are as close to 99.9percent pure as they can get them stable(say like Fe, there is a bit of other elements in there so it doesn't rust right away). The 4 are 99.9 pure plated.