The WHAT???

[Alagirl]

K, didn't know this was a term...

I have been bored lately, and I am watching HGTV (it used to be better, like about 99% of the TV channels, but that it's another story) and it seems like 'the Man Room' is now an official term in real estate...wtf?

I mean, most of you have your big 'Girl Room' out back, with the 4 legged friends and the stuff that goes with it, but man room for the regular people? what's the 'Woman Room'? The kitchen? :confused::confused::confused:

[missamandarose]

Its just the room where the men go so they don't bother the women with their beer, loud sports on TV, loud shoot-em-up computer games, belches, farts, etc. ;)

Back in the day, after a formal meal, men would retire to the study/library, and women would go to the parlor. I wouldn't take too much offense to "man room" or "man cave". It just keeps them out of our hair.

When we finally move out of Wee House, I plan on having "my" room... for crafts, my books, my computer, etc.... and my husband can have his "command center" as he likes to think of it... with his games, computer, etc. Right now our shared office is much more "his" room and I hate it! Its so disorganized and messy!

[JanM]

Actually DIY network has a show called 'Man Cave' (I think that's the name) that's all about this. I guess it makes up for the House Hunters thing about the woman having an entire huge room for scrapbooking, sewing, or the Vegas one that required a huge kitchen for her cake decorating business (I think she did one or two a month for sale-and they looked very amateurish). I liked the TLC Moving Up episode where 2 guys moved to a big country farm to start a horse breeding business, and rehabbed the old barn into a party place to rent out (I assume spare barn), and the entire old house had to be rebuilt (it was colonial era) because there basically was no foundation and lots of colonial era trash under the floor-or should I say colonial relics under the floor? I don't remember the guys ever having any horses around though. And there was another one where 2 people who did rescue were 'Moving Up' to a huge horse farm to accommodate more animals, and the couple that bought their place had a few horses-and the teenage daughter was living on a cot in the horse's stall during the remodel (instead of living with the rest of the family in an RV until the house was finished).

[Alagirl]

A good way to look at it, but it seems like the houses have living room, bedrooms, kitchen and man room. No girl room or parlor....I guess that's my problem. :) Then again, too many women are happy with the arrangement, who am I to judge! (and damn straight, should I get a bigger house, I will have my own room, for my computer and computer and stuff)

[MistyBlue]

LOL...a Man Room is a *good* thing to have. My sister had her husband build one into their finished basement. She lives with her husband and their 6 and 8 year old sons. SHE needs the Man Room more than they do. :yes: They holler, yell, scream, watch sports, play video games, all toys are there, etc. And she can enjoy the rest of her house without a pack of males making a ton of noise and mess. She even bought them a microwave and small fridge for it so they stopped tramping back upstairs to the kitchen. And since they had the Man Room put in, the rest of the house stays a LOT cleaner and more peaceful. They have a deal, she doesn't go in their room and tidy it or girl it up with decor or tell them to keep the noise down or use a coaster or whatever and they don't fark up the rest of her house.
Every other room in the house is the Woman's Room. In my house I have the inside and the outside, LOL! Hubby has the living room when he's home...that's his TV and recliner, etc after 6 pm weekdays and on weekends. I do all the inside and outside work...and the back deck, back patio, barnyard, front porch are all my domains. No men coming outside when I'm relaxing and asking me where stuff is or what's for dinner. And the kitchen is MINE...in a big way. I love to cook, and I have a large kitchen so my computer area is in there too. Mess up my kitchen or get in my way when I'm cooking and you can kiss your arse goodbye. :D

[Alagirl]

I love your set up...come to think of it... I do all the work, but I don't reap the benefits...where did I ever go wrong?!

[dmalbone]

LOL, I was also going to say it's a GOOD thing to have. It keeps them out of the barn! :lol:

[deltawave]

We used to call it the "den" or the "basement". :lol:

My "girl room" is my barn. I don't care who claims what room in the house. :D

[MistyBlue]

LOl...yup ye olde Den or TV Room.
I have a ranch house, but it's set into a slope so the basement is walk out and finished...so it has windows and doors and looks out over the backyard and stone patio.
It works out awesome because the finished area of the basement is 25x25 and we call that the Teen Room. Our youngest daughter is 16 and when she has friends over they go downstairs and can Guitar hero or Wii or shriek and giggle all they want without bugging me or messing up the rest of the house. I have a few couches, a large TV, a computer area and set up a good sized table down there too. They have room to dance or play Wii, table for games or putting out snacks on, computer to Facebook and can run in and outside without tracking all over my clean floors upstairs.
So even though my house is a modest 1450 sq 5 room ranch, with the basement it's a 2000 sf house with a useful dungeon, LOL!

[kookicat]

Over here, we call them 'the shed' ;) :lol:

[cutemudhorse]

My husband installed A/C for these folks thatjust built a really really big new home. Over the garage is a very large apartment that is for the guy. My husband dubbed it 'The Man Cave.'

[Mali]

My husband installed A/C for these folks thatjust built a really really big new home. Over the garage is a very large apartment that is for the guy. My husband dubbed it 'The Man Cave.'

Me thinks I should let hubby build that big garage he wants after all....:winkgrin:

[paintjumper]

Our house is a log house and the attached 2 car garage was NEVER a garage, it was enclosed and it became the kid's play room with a big screen TV and all the Bowflex stuff of hubby's. Well, when he decided to rebuild a 59 corvette we built another 2 car garage off to the side of the house and THAT became his "man room"............so I don't even have him in the house!!!! It's great, it has heat and air and his computer and his XM radio and all his car in 1 million parts and I DON"T EVEN CARE.............it's wonderful! He can get lost down there for hours! I occasionally take him a refill on his marguarita and he is happy as a clam. ;0 Me too!
Everybody said when he decided to rebuild that car, "oh no, now you will have less barn money".........but it has been just the opposite, he spends money on his car so he feels bad about fussing with me about my barn money, seems we are both happy! ;)
I HIGHLY recommend it.

[CHS]

I have been bored lately, and I am watching HGTV (it used to be better, like about 99% of the TV channels, but that it's another story) and it seems like 'the Man Room' is now an official term in real estate...wtf?


We have "The Man Cave" here. It's a big detached garage between our house and my neighbors house. It has chairs, tables, a stocked fridge, a grill with vent system (compliments my hubby so they could grill in the rain), a/c and heat, with the usual various tools and farm equipment to be tinkered with.

I have my barn, my neighbor has her barn. The houses? We only sleep, and shower in them.

[Miss Motivation]

My husband has a big Man Room 1200 SF metal building with his office on one side and his workshop/car lift/guy stuff on the other side. He said all he needs now is a pizza slot in the door and he's good forever.

He loves having his space, since the barn stuff is my territory.

[Huntin'Fool]

Hey to All,
Yeah the "Man Room" was once also the "Smoking Room" because women didn't smoke (right). I agree with not caring *except* I know far too many women who "get" the kitchen as in all the cleaning, food prep etc. with no real room for their hobbies-if they have any which many don't. As Virginia Woolf said everyone needs a "room of one's own". I have not read that particular essay or whatever in which she wrote that but I think I read that it referred to Jane Austin and the difficulty of writing in a room with everyone in there chattering or whatever, no quiet etc.

*That* said I really dont' know any horsey women who live exactly like that-giving up almost everything to the hobbies of husbands and children. I think horses empower women-and everyone really. Maybe because they are such an addiction you can't help but fool with them and think of them all the time. And thus have your own interests etc. And when I think of it now, that room of your own-even if it's only in your head.

My husband has fixed up our old barn and made it 'his'-no room for horses and I was annoyed at first but he does need a room of his own too and I'll fix up something new for the horses-with his help!

It is a funny phrase though-Man Room or Man Cave.

Regards,
Huntin'Fool

[Guin]

My ideal house:

Library/office for me with computer, fireplace, desk, and bookshelves. Also mini-fridge for wine. ;)

Great big huge "equipment room" for hubby and son's baseball and stinky sports gear so it does NOT come in the house proper. Must include industrial-strength washer and dryer for gross baseball/football uniforms and separate shower/bathroom. Keep your grubby stuff AWAY from the rest of the house! Attached directly to garage on OPPOSITE side of the house would be ideal.

6-stall barn, 10-acre pasture with brook, and indoor ring for me and DD!

[Trakehner]

My wife has her music room (Piano, guitar, hammer dulcimer and her more fru-fru furniture), I've got a room in the basement for my horse stuff and guns/workbench. Works out well. The garage is free space where boxes rule and is part mine...for my mower, lawn tractor and yard tools for the outside yard work...funny, my wife doesn't deal with any of that space.

[horsey nurse]

I love the idea of a man room or "cave"! Right now we don't have one, so I kick my husband out to spend time with his best friend drinking beer, BBQing, and watching TV in his detached garage. That works out great! Eventually darling husband will get his garage......but not before I get another horse!

[Trevelyan96]

Truly, Mr. Trev. is entropy in action. Every horizontal surface he goes near become a disaster zone. If it were possible, I'd get him his own MAN HOUSE!

He has a workshop, garage, and office, but I still can't keep him from messing up my family room, kitchen and barn. :(

[MistyBlue]

My husband and kids had the same problem Trev...for quite some time I'd finish cleaning a room and 5 minutes later that room would look like a bomb went off in it.
I used a few large laundry baskets...and went around picking up all the crap they left all over after they ignored my requests to pick up after themselves. After a basket was full, I'd bring it down to the basement and stick it under the workbench. Did that for about a month...stuff kept "disappearing" aand of course everyone else in the family was going nuts asking where stuff was. I'd just reply, "Last I saw that, I had put it where it belonged. You must have left it somewhere." And nope....didn't return the stuff or 'fess up where it was. I had 4 laundry baskets full of crap before they stopped leaving crap all over the place.
After they started picking up after themselves on a regular basis...I started slowly returning stuff from the baskets when nobody else was home.
I've had to re-do that about 3 times in the last 15 years, but it's worked like a charm. :D

[Alagirl]

My husband and kids had the same problem Trev...for quite some time I'd finish cleaning a room and 5 minutes later that room would look like a bomb went off in it.
I used a few large laundry baskets...and went around picking up all the crap they left all over after they ignored my requests to pick up after themselves. After a basket was full, I'd bring it down to the basement and stick it under the workbench. Did that for about a month...stuff kept "disappearing" aand of course everyone else in the family was going nuts asking where stuff was. I'd just reply, "Last I saw that, I had put it where it belonged. You must have left it somewhere." And nope....didn't return the stuff or 'fess up where it was. I had 4 laundry baskets full of crap before they stopped leaving crap all over the place.
After they started picking up after themselves on a regular basis...I started slowly returning stuff from the baskets when nobody else was home.
I've had to re-do that about 3 times in the last 15 years, but it's worked like a charm. :D

YOU. ARE. MY. HERO!!!!!!!
:yes:

:lol::lol::lol::lol:

[SarahandSam]

MistyBlue, love that strategy! LOL...

I am sitting in the man cave at the moment, which is my husband's office... only place where we have internet. In all the other rooms of the house, I picked out colours, furniture, etc., and he trusted my taste enough to go along with it. This room is his to do whatever he wants with... so it is packed with musical instruments, electronics and recording equipment, and CDs. Someday he will pick a paint colour, I hope, so that the walls will no longer be the neon orange the previous owners painted it, and until then I just shut the door when folks come over. d;

I like having a man cave because it keeps all his stuff out of the rest of the house, and it's a lot easier to decorate when you don't have to incorporate a Sega Genesis into the decor.

I do have my own office, my own dressing room, and my own tack closet in the attic, so I kinda get the better deal anyway. Someday we'll build him a wine cellar though...

[Char]

My ideal house:

Library/office for me with computer, fireplace, desk, and bookshelves. Also mini-fridge for wine. ;)

Great big huge "equipment room" for hubby and son's baseball and stinky sports gear so it does NOT come in the house proper. Must include industrial-strength washer and dryer for gross baseball/football uniforms and separate shower/bathroom. Keep your grubby stuff AWAY from the rest of the house! Attached directly to garage on OPPOSITE side of the house would be ideal.

6-stall barn, 10-acre pasture with brook, and indoor ring for me and DD!

OOHHH!!!! OOHHHH!!! I like THIS one!! I'll take 2, please! :lol:

Especially the last part!!!

[Guin]

LOVE MB's laundry basket strategy!!!! :lol: