My Man-Cave (Still a WIP) (Updated 4-4-18)

Stryker2011 wrote:Still a WIP. Need to finalize cleaning and putting stuff away. But this is pretty much it in a nutshell. Moving around too much tends to make me ill, so it's slow going. Believe it or not, the wife helped me carry that monster butcher-block table top into the basement. Not doing too much today, not feeling well, so I decided to take a few quick pics.

Hey I've got the same globus bar full of Scotch and Bourbons (still a bit small, but it looks nice)

Nice seeing pics of your mancave and collection. So cool.

I don't know about you, but my man hole (compared to your cave) is not open for public, not even my friends and family!

Glad I’m not the only one who has a full scale “figure” as well... nice collection!

Thanks all for checking out the madness. It's a daunting task at the moment just walking into this space and not feeling overwhelmed. I'd like to be able to display all of my figures at one time, but I feel if I just jam them all in tightly, that it'd look no better than the floor at the moment. It's like a hoarder's nightmare in this place. I seem to have taken on one too many projects at the moment and can't seem to concentrate on getting any of them done. I have so many half-assembled figures lying all over the place it's not funny (including figures I've had for years!).

How is the "Hoarder's Nightmare" looking these days? Have you built an addition so you can get everything out and on display?

How about a photo-illustrated update on the current state of the most simultaneously inspiring and envy-inducing figure space I've ever seen?

davidd wrote:How is the "Hoarder's Nightmare" looking these days? Have you built an addition so you can get everything out and on display?

How about a photo-illustrated update on the current state of the most simultaneously inspiring and envy-inducing figure space I've ever seen?

Oh, my God! If you saw it today, you'd be like "This guy needs help for his hoarding addiction!" The whole room is an absolute mess. Every surface has open boxes, figures lying everywhere, no room to actually work. My desk is cluttered with WIP stuff and things that need to be fixed, and I just don't have it in me at the moment to clean any of it up. It looks like a freaking bomb went off in a toy store. I can't even get to my book shelves, or the DVD/blu-ray library part of the room, and the plexiglass I bought for the Jabba the Hutt display is now on the "workbench" covered with a bunch of stuff as well (it needs some sanding and polishing to get rid of some scratches that it came with -- very pissed about that -- before I can put it on the viewing frame).

Stryker2012 wrote: The whole room is an absolute mess. Every surface has open boxes, figures lying everywhere, no room to actually work. My desk is cluttered with WIP stuff and things that need to be fixed, and I just don't have it in me at the moment to clean any of it up. It looks like a freaking bomb went off in a toy store. I can't even get to....

    

Don't worry, I'm laughing with you (before we both break down sobbing), not at you!  That sounds like the constant state of whatever my "hobby space" is at any given time, whether it be in the storage shed, or the garage, or the dining table, or the top of a nightstand, or the kitchen counter... you know.

At least you have a space in which to contain the chaos.

Or... does it find its way out to the rest of the house?

Sounds like my office... and my storage room... and my walk-in-closet combined, but much more impressive than all of them... But you know, historically, that was what these (man)caves were for ... serving as cache for treasures (and sometimes mummies)...
Hey, better have it than not have it.

Impressive room. Lots of cool stuff in there.

Same for the other rooms posted as well.

I have one small corner of my basement, and it looks like a hoarders paradise in there, full of storage totes, unopened kits, partially build/unfinished bashes, organizer bins, and ref books.... and it still looks like a bomb went off in all of that haha. Too much stuff, and not enough space.

What an impressive man cave! I even see a figure of Elvira. This reminds me of unseen pictures that I still have in my folders.

well.... THAT was fun to look at and read through...

impressive space available...

for a very short while, I will feel better and think that I do not have THAT much stuff after all.

Thanks, All. Sadly, I have probably tripled my collection since these initial photos were taken, and the entire space is a disaster that I have to carefully move thru (like a true hoarder). I really need to fine tune and curate the collection better. May need to start selling stuff.

I feel your pain, Mark.