After years of renting, I bought my first home this month and I am pretty proud. My mom started in right away, talking about window treatments, lighting fixtures, blah, blah, and more blah. I put the dart in that balloon straightaway. Sure, I am letting her find some curtains and pick up the bathroom essentialsin basic primary colors onlyand I plan to handle the dcor myself. Now, you may laugh at the way your average 25 year old would choose to decorate, but give me a few weeks and Ill be the one laughing.
See, I have several married friends. And two of them even have pretty cool wives who let them carve out a section of the basement or garage to create a man-cave. Heres my plan: I dont need a man-caveI am crafting the man-castle.
Heres my to-do list:
1. Find a prime location for my 52 inch flat screen. Strategically find furniture, install sound system, and maneuver lighting to accommodate the TV as the focal point in the great room.
2. Shop football display cases. Ill need football helmet display cases, ball cases, and some type of framing for two special jerseys. Dedicate dining room to sports memorabilia displays.
3. Kitchen supplies. Two words: paper products. Then I can let my mom work a little magic; shell like that and she is likely to be the only one doing any cooking in there.
4. Speaking of food, purchase a Weber kettle and charcoal. Grilling up a fat burger or a decent steak with a bag of chips on the side is about all I need to get by.
5. Get started on the basement. Heres where the magic happens, and I havent fully fleshed the concept out just yet. The great room upstairs will be dedicated to game watching; the basement to game playing. I want to install a bar area and either a pool table or a ping pong table (maybe both, if I can work out the logistics) and get another TV. I may even get more baseball or football display cases to house more sports memorabilia down here too. This project may get postponed for a few months.
So, thats the plan. Ive only been here a few weeks and I am getting the essentials about wrapped up so I can start my list. And my goal is to be the envy of all my friends, the king of my man-castle.