Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for January 28, 2019

This looks more like a typical man-cave. “I got the beer cooler set up over in the corner, and the TV is set up. I’ll get around to fixing it up eventually, but I don’t want to rush it.”

True, that is not much of a man-cave. But it is warm, being next to the water heater, and it has a window. A guy may not play video games there, or watch football, but he could smoke a cigar and drink whisky without interruption. .

Who’s been taking photos of my apartment!!!

But each, in their own way, serve their purposes.

This is the household’s interrogation chamber in which the wife questions hubby’s recent whereabouts! Notice the nearby sink for waterboarding! Very convenient!!!

It may not look like much…

But you can tell by the comments it’s fairly realistic for a lot of people.

The only people who can apparently afford the huge apartments you see on television…. the ones where “man caves” are full of new leather furniture, and all the latest appliances and electronics….

are the fictional posses of 20-something, incredibly well paid coffee shop employees who populate sitcoms.

Before I ever heard of a “man cave” an old friend of mine had a space almost like this in the garage.

He’d sit in a sagging recliner, and watch an old TV,

surrounded by his unfinished projects…

next to a TV tray full of bits from whatever he was currently repairing.

It kept at least some of that stuff from piling up on the kitchen table, which made his wife happier.

Neither my Dad nor Dale had a man cave, but each had a tv in another room. Same thing!

That’s all a man needs; otherwise it’s a “DEN”

A good friend of mine (RIP) always used to say that every important project begins with a comfortable thinking chair. Or ends in one, I might add.

It’s not the extravagance of the space, but the quality of the contentment that the space provides that matters.

I think that’s most of them.

Being that i am a bachelor, my home is my man cave.

I think I saw this one. The homeowners gave Chip and Joanne a $70 renno budget. They covered the chair in shiplap.

I see the crumbs have been cleaned off the recliner in preparation for the Ballard Street Spelunkers Club Meeting.

Looks comfie enough for me.. the sink doubles as a urinal.. handy, and the hot water tank keeps the area nice and warm.. Has a reading light. A good man would find this a dandy retreat.

I wonder if his wife has a “she shed”.

HE HAS A CHAIR??

Man Cave……Level 1

My dad’s man cave was like this, an old armchair in the room with the furnace and water heater. He had his tools and a workbench there, where he’d spend hours reloading shotgun shells and listening to sports on the radio.

Delbert has told his wife not to appropriate this corner of the basement because he’s hosting a meeting of the “Committee to Restore the Old Term for the Jack of Hearts”.

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In other words, he wants to save his cave for the knave rave…

Hey, what’r you gonna do with that Louisville Slugger? ☺

Take what you can get.

He’s planning on making that old door into a coffee table.

As soon as he can find some old cinderblocks.