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Kindly Define "Man Room"

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I've been looking for a home in Duluth and came upon this lovely Lakewood listing on Craig's List: http://duluth.craigslist.org/rfs/605502262.html (The picture I posted is only of the garage & other room.)

It sounds great - and even features a "Man Room." I'm asking the assembled to define "Man Room" for the newbie. And what does a man do in a room of his own?

My mental image is a semi-finished space with a mini-fridge, a wall of dubious VHS tapes, a leather-esque Lazy Boy and ...a towel. Please help me erase this image with the right one. Is it like a workshop?

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If it were up to me, a Man Room would include a bathroom. Or maybe just a toilet would be sufficient.
Otherwise, I see it as a place for playing poker and watching football. A man could make models there, too, and not stink up the house with glue and paint.


A "Man Room" is an area for a guy to hide his "guy things" like pool tables, big TVs for football, darts, or a workshop. This keeps them hidden away from the women who are too lame to appreciate such items.


In my mind, a "man" room is the room that has the home theater in it. Top of the line audio/video equipment. The mini-bar for serving your buds beer during the big game. No girly/frilly decor. For the geek set, the room contains multiple video game systems. I'm sure there's smut involved in there somewhere, so I can't erase that thought entirely.


Speaking for the "geek set", we have no "Man Room", we have a completely kick-ass gaming room, setup for any random game of D&D, Settlers of Catan, or poker, complete with a Mame arcade cabinet.
Hide that in a "Man Room"? Screw that - it's in the upstairs living room. ;)


I forgot to add that in my vision that would be some sort of toilet/piss pot.

Lucie/bird


We have a "man room" in our house. No barkolounger, vhs tapes or towels in sight. Great view of Enger Tower out the window, comfortable chair, tons of books and the dog's bed.


My "man room" is part of our laundry room complete with motorcycles and parts and empty Summit pale ale bottles. It is the only area of the the house where my neat freak, umm I mean my beautifully hyper organized girlfriend has no say on its state of decor or cleanliness. It keeps both of us very happy.


First, think of a sewing room. Now, picture the exact opposite of that.

I think a Man Room is the kind of place where a man does whatever that particular man is into. Mine has a drawing table, computer parts all over the floor, etc. I had a Man Room even when I had no one to escape from, so it's not about escape. It's a relaxation/hobby room -- like I said, the male equivalent of a sewing room.


"Man Room" probably has dusty taxidermies of various types.


Mine does.


It's a lot like the apartment he gave up when someone somehow convinced him it was a good idea.


A "man room" means you either didn't want to remove that cool knotty-pine-look beadboard, or you didn't want to tape the drywall.


i've only been in "the man room" once uninvited. i suspected that's where the salt and pepper shakers were. why? because it is a man room, and that is where salt and pepper shakers go.



The Man Room is a retreat, where he may keep his hobby stuff, and a place to go when he needs time to recharge, or a place to sit with his buddies and oink like the pigs all men can be occasionally.

I've always been of the opinion that BOTH parties in a relationship should have areas they can retreat to.

This is a good thing to have after they've had a disagreement. Both parties can hide until cooler heads prevail.

Even if it's only a 10 x 10' room in the basement, as long as the room is his and his alone, he'll be happy.


PartsGuy, that's sound advice to be sure. I'm starting to groove on the "place of my own" idea. It would be good to hide from spouse, children & real life.


Two-car garage, nice view of the lake, breakfast nook, bay windows, spacious masturbatorium ...


I love going to estate sales and seeing the various parts of the houses. Usually the Sewing Room is the smaller upstairs bedroom. With old thread, fabric, knitting needles and stuff I don't know about.
And the basement usually has the Man Room: the wood-paneled bar, the tool room, maybe some old photography equipment, and at some estate sales, a box of old Playboys.

The dirtiest thing in my man room is a couple copies of the Slim Goodbuzz Limerick book. Hidden away from the kiddies.


I have a man room at my house. It is the basement of course. I have a bar that is stocked with good red wine of various sorts and Lake Superior Brewery Windward Wheat. I have a big screen television, a lot of stuff from my childhood bedroom(my sports card and comic book collection, a few autographs and some baseball figurines) Itis my place to relax and be myself. Listen to the Weezer song "In the Garage" and you have a description of a man room.


clumsy, you forgot the shag carpet and track lighting. sounds more like a Batch Pad on CHiPs or some other popular 1970's TV show...


my man room is in the basement. big screen t.v. & video games. all my dead tapes and my record collection + stereo. knotty pine walls and big leather sofas. dart board & beer signs. not off-limits to the wife 1 night a week. her band practices on the other end where my bar should be. it also doubles as jimmy johnsons's second bedroom. so nice.


We actually have a "Man House." But is is very unlike the image conjured by the "masturbatorium" image (although I always get a chuckle out of that term thanks Barrett). I am not sure why women think that when we get together as men or alone in a room all we want to do is play video games or jerk off, maybe drink some beer, but I guess there are guys out there who perpetuate that image. Lucky for me, I guess I'm not one of them. We are a man house by virtue of the fact that there is no woman here, and even though I have little girls there are few frills, but you might trip over a random barbie doll and we are pretty well stocked with High School musical posters and stickers. Also, we do have women visitors but by far the visitors are my guy friends and the food and snacks follow suit: Lots of pizza, micorwave popcorn, chips and salsa. The porn is gone these days, but we do still watch quite a few movies. I got a projector and put movies up on the wall. For big sports events like the hockey tourneys or football games we tend to draw a decent crowd. So we have lots of comfortable chairs (although they don't match each other very much). There are lots of books, too and some random messes. the reality is that when you remove a "woman" from a house or a room, there are lots of trappings that go with that, like ten million pairs of shoes, a baffling variety of undergarments, "glamour" magazines, knick knacks, and doilies. It just makes room for more "man" things. And it leaves you a place to set down a glass without a coaster, too.

In a related note, I know of a family somewhere in Duluth with two domiciles on adjacent lots. One is the "man house" the other the "woman house" in the back there is a fantastic garden that they both adore. Seems like a fairly good relationship so they really could be on to something there.

What's missing? I'm not so into pool, but I would like a foosball table. ANyone know where I could get one in working order for cheap?


I was under the impression that men had died off. Don't see where a "man room" would be of much use today. One could still dream of or maybe pretend?


Anarchy, maybe you were confusing it was a "real man" room. That's a whole different ball game.

Lucie/bird


I have such a room -- which is lovingly referred to as my "Man Cave" by the missus. It's mainly a music room (stereos + CD/LP collections) ... a place to listen to my ELO records without being laughed at!


like ten million pairs of shoes, a baffling variety of undergarments, "glamour" magazines, knick knacks, and doilies.

well. that settles it, then. i'm officially a man.

my man room is more like the dad's in Pride and Prejudice--a study--wall to wall books and a desk, filing cabinets, and something to lounge and read on. and some iPod speakers.

sadly, i just had another realization about the men in my family... they have never really been allowed to have "man rooms" where they spent any significant amount of time. my grandfather had a workbench. my grandmother decorated the rest of the basement for parties, but it was never used. my dad--he got nothing but a tiny little office in the basement--like a closet. the men's place was sitting in the "other chair" while you watched tv. holy god, chalk another mark in the "we're fucked up" column.



I don't even want to speculate what goes on in a "man room."


Some women have a horrible opinion of men.


According to my brother-in-law, the man room would need to be large enough to house his huge snooker table, have a bar with Tennents lager on tap, and a huge television with 4 or 5 channels showing nothing but "football" (soccer).

Bro-by-law is English, just received a snooker table larger than any room in his house, and tonight was excitedly telling my son that Man United is #1 in the premier league.


According to my brother-in-law, the man room would need to be large enough to house his huge snooker table, have a bar with Tennents lager on tap, and a huge television with 4 or 5 channels showing nothing but "football" (soccer).

Bro-by-law is English, just received a snooker table larger than any room in his house, and tonight was excitedly telling my son that Man United is #1 in the premier league.


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