Pictures of our "Man-Caves"

comxfan · Post by **comxfan** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 3:02 pm

Someone suggested this a whiile ago, and I was going to start a thread then, but forgot to ever do it. So here it finally is! This is the upstairs of our house. I made it into 2 rooms, the 21 x 32 room for me, then a 20 x 21 storage area. off the main room is my comic "closet" which is 25 x 6.
I used thumbnails to ease up the page load time, just click on them and it will take you to a large pic.

http://shell.ayrix.net/~jwheeler/comxfan/ManCave01.jpg

http://shell.ayrix.net/~jwheeler/comxfan/ManCave02.jpg

http://shell.ayrix.net/~jwheeler/comxfan/ManCave03.jpg

http://shell.ayrix.net/~jwheeler/comxfan/ManCave04.jpg

http://shell.ayrix.net/~jwheeler/comxfan/ManCave05.jpg

http://shell.ayrix.net/~jwheeler/comxfan/ManCave06.jpg

The last is my price and joy of the Man-Cave - a 1950 Bruswick 6x9 Snooker table. That was my house warming present to myself!

I've showed you mine, anybody else??

Jaime

Brother J · Post by **Brother J** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 3:58 pm

Holy crap, that is very cool the way you have that set up, and everything is in just one room? VERY NICE!

My pool table is down in the basement, as are some of my non-comic collectible items. The closest thing I have to a man cave is our spare bedroom, where my boxes and boxes of comics are. Nothing's really that organized in there, so I doubt it would make for a very attractive picture!

KO2003 · Post by **KO2003** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 9:04 pm

WHoo hooo , man!

That shelving is killer! I have boxes scattered around the room with precariously balanced stacks of comics on top of some boxes. I am the Oscar to your Felix.

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 10:31 pm

Oh my god. I am in mancave heaven just LOOKING at that.

Wow.

How much do come make mine?

Master Dorque · Post by **Master Dorque** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 11:18 pm

Whoa....you must have a huge house to be able to use this much space for your "man cave". I'm envious.....here in Southern California a 1000 square foot starter home will run you $400,000.00 and up, so all my goodies are delegated to my garage, attic, and closets. I noticed on the back wall of your closet you have that "Cool World" Holly Wood clock....I love that thing. I saw one for sale once at a weekly show, and I didn't buy it when I first saw it. Went back the next week with intention of getting it and it was gone.....Damn! You snooze you loose. Anyway, you have a nice set up there amigo!

comxfan · Post by **comxfan** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 11:31 pm

Lots of drawbacks to living in the deep South, but building is not one of them.
Here in Mississippi, I was able to build my 4,000 heated square feet dream home for about $173K last year. Had a contractor with good sources on a lot of things, so that helped immensely.

The Cool World clock is one of the many left over items from the 6 years I spent running a video store(hence the movie posters on the walls). I have a stack of movie standups all folded flat that is about 10 feet high that I am going to dig thru this winter and dress up the cave a bit further, as well as hundreds of movie and comic posters to decorated with. My wife thinks my decorating should be done, so I now just add a piece or two at a time so she doesn't notice much when she does go up there. We did almost have a fight when the Armorines stand up stayed in the main room, and didn't go in the closet like she suggested. Think at that point she gave up trying to limit the "manliness/comic geek" quotient of the upstairs.

Thanks for all the great comments. Glad I shared it with ya'll, and looking forward to what some of the rest of you have done with your stuff!

Jaime

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 12:12 am

Verrrrrry nice.

That's almost a man-cavern!

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 11:22 am

depluto wrote:Verrrrrry nice.

That's almost a man-cavern!

Or even a man-canyon....

rai4ever · Post by **rai4ever** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 12:33 pm

Hope to have a man cave myself one day too.
nice

johnpaulbill · Post by **johnpaulbill** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 2:05 pm

hey, I have a "Man-corner of the Garage"

You have one heck of a set up. I'm very very very envious. Keep us posted when you update your room. jp

whetteon · Post by **whetteon** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 11:09 am

I have a "man-apartment" but keep the comics in my "man-closet". When you doing the whole date scene, I'm not sure the current date appreciates your nerdy ness that early on.

justin · Post by **justin** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 11:14 am

whetteon wrote:When you doing the whole date scene, I'm not sure the current date appreciates your nerdy ness that early on.

LMAO, maybe you should try picking up the ladies at a comic shop or convention instead of at the college there!

~A

ManofTheAtom · Post by **ManofTheAtom** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 1:05 pm

Where can I get shelves (sp?) like those?

And how do you keep them from collapsing because of the weight with those thin legs?

What do the stickers on the boxes say?

How do you archive your comics?

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 1:33 pm

I have a couple of man-houses, but that's because the only female presence is that big black pooch over there...

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Ain't she a beaut?

And she doesn't mind the comics at ALL.

comxfan · Post by **comxfan** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 6:51 pm

Where can I get shelves (sp?) like those?
And how do you keep them from collapsing because of the weight with those thin legs?
I had them put in by a professional closet/storage organizer (didn't know there was such a thing at the time. The are reinforced steel (similar to, but higher grade than what you buy at Lowes, etc.), attached to wall studs in 3 places every 4 feet per shelf. They were guaranteed to hold 50 pounds/sq foot, so feel pretty secure. Cost right at $1000 to have them done, but should last longer than I will, so it was worth it.

What do the stickers on the boxes say?
I attach labels on the outside letting me know what runs are in the box.
100 books fit nicely in a short box, so they say things like "Avengers v.1 1-100". I try to be pretty specific to make it easy to find everything.

How do you archive your comics?
I group them by company and title. When there are similar books, they will go together. For example, Defenders doesn't fill 2 boxes quite, so i have several small runs of books featuring Defenders characters in with them. Also, in the case of lots of short run series, I group them by company and decade released.

My wife thinks I'm a bit too organized some days, but my 10 -yr old son loves it! I am slowly introducing him to all the good stuff through my collection and through my hardback addiction. Gotta love the Masterworks and Archives!!

ManofTheAtom · Post by **ManofTheAtom** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 7:30 pm

Cool.

I organize by publisher and week, heh.

I used to organize by title, got bored and decided to reorganize the 6,000+ comics by week, lol.

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 11:30 pm

You need to invite more friends over and keep the beer flowing. It looks like nobody has thrown up on your carpet yet.

Break in the cave!

magnusr · Post by **magnusr** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 7:02 am

Figured it was time to reactivate this thread. Maybe comxfan's huge cave was so intimidating noone wanted to follow up. Here's mine, it should be easy enough to beat:

I do however have the right to hang a few thing outside the "cave":

/Magnus

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:48 am

The Valiant art looks very cool. I'm jealous.

Unblessed · Post by **Unblessed** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:34 am

One day I'll get book shelves and shelves.

~The Unblessed Soul

cinlach@aol.com · Post by **cinlach@aol.com** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:15 am

ack! is that my (ahem, i mean YOUR) unity uncut sheet i spy?!?!

awesome magnus...it looks sweet.

as for pics of my man cave, which compared to the "man cave mahal" looks like a "man hovel", i'll have to wait until i get my brother outta there...he's currently "vactioning" from school and needed a place to crash for a few...so as soon as i get a clear shot at the "dan cave" i'll pop them up and you can ALL laugh at how pathetic i am...lol

magnusr · Post by **magnusr** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 12:27 pm

cinlach@aol.com wrote:ack! is that my (ahem, i mean YOUR) unity uncut sheet i spy?!?!

Mine, mine, all mine

You and several others board members have helped me to build a collection I cherish - and to strain my finances

awesome magnus...it looks sweet.

Ain't it? It displays very well. The kids love it.

as for pics of my man cave...

Looking forward to them, and what anyone else can share.

/Magnus

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 12:32 pm

Nice setup Magnus!

MrBigFeathas · Post by **MrBigFeathas** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 12:54 pm

I recently took pictures of just my Spidey section of my comic/game room. It's not all of the Spidey comics as I didn't takes pics of the comic boxes just the file cabinet. But here are some pics... (you can click each pic to make it bigger)

magnusr · Post by **magnusr** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:02 pm

MrBigFeathas wrote:I recently took pictures of just my Spidey section of my comic/game room.

Nice. Those drawers for the comics are great. And nice presentation generally.

/Magnus

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