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    Default My mancave sucks

    I have a mancave. It sucks. It had fun features like tininess, dark paint to make the tiny room look tinier, 15 year old carpet infested with fleas, and not one, but TWO tiny closets (what were they thinking?)

    I'm not a fan of living like a weirdo so I've been fixing the joint up. I thought I would share some photos of what's been keeping me from quality pen time. The photos are in chronological order starting TWO years ago! Man time flies and the mancave kinda gets pushed to the side when more important projects need to get done. I'm not done yet, but It's looking more like a proper fountain pen enthusiasts mancave finally! I've done all the work myself. It's been fun but extremely hard. My house was built in 1904 and I'm pretty sure everything went out of square about 1905. Everything from the rubberized garage flooring that looks like black marble to the industrial light fixture had to be custom fit to the house's eccentric personality.

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    Wow, Hector! That would work as a womancave, too! You have a great room there.
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    Well done I really like the change from old style mouldings to the rubberised flooring and the modern style wheeled cabinets.
    Thanks for sharing.

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    Looks fantastic !

    You put a lot of work into it and it shows.

    So when are you hosting a Pen Meet ?

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    Very impressive. And beautiful.

    Are you going to coat the wood, or leave it raw?

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    Is having mad calligraphy skills not enough, that you have to be a bloody handyman too?

    Seriously though, really nice work. Always impressed by other people's talents.

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    Ssswwweeetttt! An ink spice cabinet!!!!!! It's no cave!!!! It's a luxury fountain pen room.

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    The crown molding is fairly awesome.
    My other pen is a Montblanc.

    And my other blog is a tumblr!


    And my latest ebook, for spooky wintery reading:

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CM2NGSSD

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    That's a lot of work! You have a good eye for design, too.
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    Everything is getting painted white when I'm done.

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    Clear an bright.
    Beautiful fountain pen office.
    If ever you decide to go for a walk in France...

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    Super transformation....love that sliding ink-shelf. 7

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    Incredible. I almost wrote Ink-redible, but thought that was too corny.
    Great looking room, even in incomplete state. You have a tremendous skills and a great eye.
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    I really like the ink cabinet. I like how you can open it and have your bottles on display and close it up when you aren't in the room to limit the ink's exposure to light. All of my iroshizuku inks are in their original boxes where I can't enjoy staring at them which is a shame. I love your magazine/paper storage cubbies too. It would be great to have a nice selection of papers and stationery readily accessible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lady Onogaro View Post
    Wow, Hector! That would work as a womancave, too! You have a great room there.
    My sister once told me "Women do not have women caves, we have boudoirs... there are exactly the same only they don't smell of smelly boys!"... I love my sister
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    Amazing work Hector, I can now add "pen caveing skills" to my list of jealously of your pen collection and hand writing!
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    Wow, thats fabulous. Good thing you are going to paint the wood white because I prefer stained wood and won't want to steal the room.
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    Wow, would you umm, come design my woman cave????
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    Current pen rotation: way too many!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sammyo View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Lady Onogaro View Post
    Wow, Hector! That would work as a womancave, too! You have a great room there.
    My sister once told me "Women do not have women caves, we have boudoirs... there are exactly the same only they don't smell of smelly boys!"... I love my sister
    All the spaces I inhabit seem to be too messy to be called boudoirs. :-) If it weren't for my neatnik husband, I hate to think what our place would look like! A friend told me once that I was the messiest girl he ever met. I have to agree with him that I am domestically challenged when it comes to tidy spaces.
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