Project Man Cave

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Hi all,

Over the last couple of months I've been converting my Double Garage into a Man Cave. I bought a 7 ft American style Pool Table and Dart Board last year but the place really needed freshening up so I set about getting onto it in March.

Since then I've bought quite a few things for it. I've gone for a predominantly American-themed Bar style with splashes of Britishness mixed in (although you can't see any British stuff yet lol).

As you can see it's a concrete sectional garage which is prone to a bit of damp and cold in Winter so anything valuable (including the Pool table which can be folded comes inside) and really the purpose of the Man Cave is to serve throughout the Spring and Summer Months (so March to October sort of time).

Here's what everything looked like to begin with...





 


We decided to go with a 'Brilliant White' Paint for the walls - as white imo looks great with everything, with the only problem being that it can get dirty quicker than anyother colour. This is Dulux Weathershield Masonry Paint that is supposed to be decent though.





Almost everything cleared out by this stage...

 




There was quite crack in the Concrete Floor from the back to the front of the Garage so we filled it in with some Concrete Cement...

 
Floor Painted...



Pool Table and a few other things start going in...



And a 3 seater Sofa...



As well as a Bar.. and a few Jack Daniels bits bought...Bar Runners and a Bar Stool...

 
Ok

Well the thing is the Garage has been as in Pic 1 for the best part of 4/5 years and we've finally got around to getting to doing something about it. We've got two grown up kids, a three year old and a Baby on the way in August and we've had to completely redecorate the house (which is 4 double bedrooms) leaving the Garage last as that was the least important thing in our eyes.

As the House is finally finished we wanted to make use of the Garage and have friends over, TV in there for the World Cup etc. so we haven't had much time to plan anything.

I'm an absolute noob when it comes to DIY so it didn't even occur to me to insulate the garage, we just wanted to get it in decent shape before the World Cup kicks off in 10 days time.

I did ask a few days ago but can anyone give me a rough idea as to how much it would cost to insulate, materials and labour?

We'll look into it but at the moment I'm just stoked that we've turned it into a decent room! And Jack Daniels is my favourite tipple so it makes sense to decorate accordingly :p

Thanks.
 
Thanks Jez, I've got a Carpenter and Joiner guy who lives in the same village coming tomorrow to give me some advice / estimates etc. :)
 
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