Hello everyone,
I hope you are having a great day.
Hosting can be an incredible experience and meeting other people is wonderful, however after a busy period of hosting, sometimes all you need is a bit of time to relax. We are human after all! 🙂
How do you like to relax? Perhaps you like to put you feet up and watch a good film, read a book or a nice bubble bath, or perhaps you like getting out and about, going for a nice walk, meeting family/friends or even a day adventure to the beach perhaps.
For me, I like to relax by going for a nice walk usually along the river, perhaps grabbing a cup of tea on the way to walk with and then ending the day with some sofa time in my Pjs. Wild, I hear you say! 🙂
How about you?
You poor bugger, fancy having 'inlaws' less than 5 minutes away!!
Yes the man cave, Oh Bruce every man has to have one......
Mine is in an old shed up the back of the block. This is where I have my computer, my piano and all those things that mean a bit to me in my life....except Ade....this is my mans territory, she has the house!!
When we bought this house this is what the shed looked like.....
And this is what the inside of the shed looked like....it was disgusting beyond belief!
After the big cleanout I put on a new roof and did a bit of rough cladding on the outside. The thing you have to realise when you embark on something like this...It's a shed, and will never be anything other than a shed but it's good to make it as liveable as takes your fancy....
And this is what it now looks like inside....
Through that doorway has become my workshop and principal bloody possum home...I am still trying to get rid of them!
I am a long way from the house and I can do what I like and make as much noise as I like. I have double skinned the building and it is well insulated so very litle noise comes out of it Bruce. A few of us get together regularly, neighbour Randall plays a guitar and Chris the son in law is a drummer and Dave from Meals on Wheels plays a base and we knock over a few drinks and a few reds up here every now and then.
Every man has to have his man cave, so Bruce, when you see a post from here, you can visualise where it comes from!
Cheers....Rob
@Robin4 sorry I took so long to see your post mate.the man cave looks amazing.
I also noticed your wine collection.funny because I just hosted 13 folks from AUS this week for 3 days of water engineering from the Israeli perspective.from around your area up to Sydney and Melbourne.
robin, your shack is quite impressive.
me outside my cave protecting my last copy of "on the beach" VCR
haha
In actual fact it took me about 2 weeks to build that Lizzie!
I have a lot of advantages...I am retired and for the first 6 years of ownership of this property had nothing else to do each day but wake up in the morning and build or wreck something. It really was a simply as that! Ade was relatively mobile then, she was still driving so I wasn't a continual taxi service, I hadn't joined Meals on Wheels at that stage....all I had to do was try and make this property into something other than a total run down derelict wreck.
But I also think that is the strength Lizzie...it's not me, it's the property, there was always the basis here for building in some character. Most of the houses on this earth don't have character, and never will....short of knocking them down and starting again there is just nothing you can do that will allow you to show whatever it is is that you have. I mean, you can always put an ornament here or there, change colour, a kitchen, but to really make 'a silk purse out of a sows ear'.....not too many properties you can actually do that with.
I am absolutely sure you Lizzie would be aware of my favourite show on Television....it's called 'Grand Designs' I would never miss an episode of that show! I wouldn't probably want to live in many of them but the style that comes from that show is amazing.
I have seen the property of my dreams though, and it is about 2 Kms away from here, and it's just a pity that I am 72 now and time is against me to start again! But I would so love to do something with this property....
Bedrooms in the second building with a gallery between. I know I could make something good out of these old sheds, once again it comes back to character.....never mind, just a dream but I do look lovingly at them every time I drive past!
But back to reality....best part about this man cave though is something I had absolutely nothing to do with.....it's the wine!!
I have got a good collection, and there is a bottle for every occasion.....
Although I have three wine racks here, this rack is for the better bottles! It's on a plinth with castors and I can wheel it into an old fridge I have out in the potting shed during the summer to keep the wine at a reasonably stable temperature. That way I have got a reasonable chance of drinking it before it goes off!!
Have a great weekend @Lizzie @Bruce43 @J-Renato0
Cheers.....Rob
