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    The Man Cave Book
    The Man Cave Book
    The Man Cave Book
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    The Man Cave Book

    By Jeff Wilser and Michael H. Yost

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    The Man Cave Book by Mike Yost and Jeff Wilser is a tribute to great and glorious man spaces and the craftsmen behind them. Complete with instructions and insights into creating your own unique refuge and shrine to beer, sports, and everything else that's right with the world, The Man Cave Book is an essential manual for any man cave enthusiast.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateApr 19, 2011
    ISBN9780062087256
    The Man Cave Book
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    Jeff Wilser

    Jeff Wilser is the author of four books, including The Good News About What's Bad for You...The Bad News About What's Good for You, named by Amazon as one of the Best Books of the Month in both Nonfiction and Humour. His work has appeared in print or online at GQ, Esquire, New York magazine, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Mental Floss, MTV, and Huffington Post. His TV appearances have ranged from BBC News to The View. He lives in New York.

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      The Man Cave Book - Jeff Wilser

      The Man Cave Book

      Mike Yost & Jeff Wilser

      My wife says I never listen to her.

      At least I think that’s what she said.

      The 7 Constructions of a Man Cave

      Behind every man is his man cave.

      In the Beginning

      The Everyman (Basic) Cave

      The meat and potatoes. These are the blue-collar caves, the functional caves, the triumphant intersection of comfort, simplicity, and hard-won goodies. The bulk of man caves (especially ones not featured in this book) will fall into this category—take a look at Mark Lau’s in Chapter 1.

      The Collector’s Cave

      The goal is to accumulate more of one type of item than anyone else in the world. It doesn’t matter what that item is. It matters that you have at least 10,000 of them. And they can be tasteful, too: just look at the shrine to Coca-Cola by Wade Miller, Chapter 2.

      The Sports Cave

      Sports aren’t just watched here. They’re played. You rig your cave to accommodate the toughest athletic challenges known to man: pool, poker, shuffleboard, and the Xbox. Of course, it’s also the ideal venue for watching the game—just ask Jim Meehan, owner of a replica stadium, Chapter 3.

      The Gentleman’s Cave

      Posh, stylish, clean. The kind of cave that would actually impress women. More scotch than beer, more billiards than foosball, more Don Draper than Tim Allen. See Dave Stanoszek’s in Chapter 4 for inspiration.

      The Bar Cave

      At last. You’ve found a way to integrate the two great joys in your life: your home and your local tavern. You’re both bartender and patron, owner and guest. See the tiki bar in Chapter 5 for a classic example.

      The Clutter-as-Art Cave

      Soak it in. These caves wisely pack as much stuff into one confined space as humanly possible. They proudly trail blaze a new aesthetic, one that scoffs at outdated principles like space and balance. A dazzling buffet for all five senses. Skeptical? Just look at the bounty of Jeff Smith, Chapter 6.

      Odd & Outdoor Caves

      These caves are all about personality, personality, personality. They do things different. Some are outdoors, some are jammed with aviator equipment, and some are actually made to look like an honest-to-God castle, like John Bryant’s, Chapter 7.

      Afterword

      Appendix

      Acknowledgments

      About the Authors

      Credits

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      Behind every man is his man cave.

      Behind every man cave is a story. This book tells that story. The inspiration, the joy, the hardwired wisdom. It’s all here. We clear up misconceptions, spread the gospel, and lay down the rules and regulations. You’ll find tips for rookies, rewards for veterans, and, hopefully, the answer to the great question: What were you thinking?

      The Man Cave Book focuses on what makes a great man cave great. Why are they built? How are they built? What can we learn about our own caves, our culture, our humanity, and our own souls?

      Along the journey, we guarantee plenty of surprises, many laughs, and, if men were permitted to cry, a few tears of happiness.

      A man cave can be anything: a stylish lounge, a home theater, a high-tech Mecca to gaming, a music studio, or just an ode to your once great college crash-pad. The world is your oyster. Even the International Space Station is getting a man cave.

      There are many excellent reasons to build a man cave. It’s easier, cheaper, and safer than going to a bar. It’s a harmless outlet. It rekindles friendships. It keeps your trash from the rest of the house. It can even help spark a relationship, especially your relationship with Jack, Johnnie, and Bud.

      The man cave is an opportunity—maybe our best and last opportunity—for freedom. Freedom from responsibility, freedom from work, and freedom from taste.

      When single, we let our walls go bare. When married, we let our walls go pink. And something happens to us when we settle into domesticity. After the wedding, we swallow our egos, phase out our buddies, and choke back tears as our homes—our very homes—collect bizarre items like gravy boats, potpourri, and vacuum cleaners.

      We sacrifice. We stamp out our past. We even throw out the essentials, those must-have objects like the Redskins couch with built-in beer holders, the wall-sized tapestry of Cloud City, the original Atari that no longer works, the stuffed heads of falcons, and the semi-automatic, 800-rounds-per-minute assault rifles that are probably legal in at least three states. We scrap all of this. And like Parisians in the early 1940s, we endure.

      But something’s not right. We feel a rumbling deep in our bellies, a primordial urge, a sense that we’ve lost a shred of our identity. Lesser men will feed this hunger with mistresses, alcoholism, a midlife crisis.

      Not us. We’re stronger. But we wonder…what if.

      What if there’s a way to have it all? What if there’s a way to resurrect the glory of our past, to cherish our hobbies, and to create a sanctuary—a magical getaway—that lets us nourish our souls, with

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