Shadow's Basement

[Shadow]

This is more of an all-purpose room, rather than a man-cave, but there are elements no man-cave should be without!

First, the before pics (Yes, it WAS a dump!):
http://www.princeaccounting.com/poker/pix/basement1.jpg

http://www.princeaccounting.com/poker/pix/basement2.jpg

http://www.princeaccounting.com/poker/pix/basement3.jpg


The work isn't done, as very little trim is done (office only) and no flooring or ceiling is done. But it is wired for cable, phone, and cat-5e in several places throughout the main basement area, the office has cable/phone/cat-5 on every wall, and there is plenty out electrical outlets (even though I still have to use power strips!

The office (I have since added a ceiling plus can lights for lighting, you can see plenty of outlets and cable/phone/network jacks, the wiring hanging from the wall is now tapped into a network and phone patch panel):

http://www.princeaccounting.com/poker/pix/office1.jpg

http://www.princeaccounting.com/poker/pix/office2.jpg

http://www.princeaccounting.com/poker/pix/office3.jpg

http://www.princeaccounting.com/poker/pix/office4.jpg


These pictures are with the basement set up to host a 60 player poker tournament:

http://www.princeaccounting.com/poker/pix/poker1.jpg

http://www.princeaccounting.com/poker/pix/poker2.jpg

http://www.princeaccounting.com/poker/pix/poker3.jpg

http://www.princeaccounting.com/poker/pix/poker4.jpg

http://www.princeaccounting.com/poker/pix/poker5.jpg.

http://www.princeaccounting.com/poker/pix/poker10.jpg

http://www.princeaccounting.com/poker/pix/poker11.jpg

http://www.princeaccounting.com/poker/pix/poker12.jpg

http://www.princeaccounting.com/poker/pix/poker13.jpg



The Bar (which no man-cave should be without!

http://www.princeaccounting.com/poker/pix/poker6.jpg



Fountain pop machine:

http://www.princeaccounting.com/poker/pix/poker7.jpg



Hot dogs and party sub for the poker players:

http://www.princeaccounting.com/poker/pix/poker8.jpg



Nachos, plus beer on tag! The keg is kept in the fridge next to the tap. I drilled a hole in the side of the fridge and the cabinet and ran the beer line from the keg to the tap, plus added pipe insulation to help keep it cold in the line. It works great during the parties, but for once in a while use, you have to let the first several ounces of beer go to get to the cold stuff. Alternatively, you can cut a bigger hole in the side of the fridge and cabinet and run your beer lines through 3" or 4" vent piping and insulate that so that cold air from the fridge refrigerates the air inside the vent piping. But that makes moving the fridge (if you ever need to get behind it) much more difficult.

http://www.princeaccounting.com/poker/pix/poker9.jpg

[Aust1227]

Hell's yes... Nice place, and a nice crowd there too!

[j p frog]

nice post and room! where do you live?

[Shadow]

nice post and room! where do you live?

Just north of Detroit.

Believe it or not, I'm about to give up that room. We just bought a new house a few miles north of here and I will have to start over. The new place has a little smaller basement and is laid out different, but it does have a half-bath already which the current one does not. It also has office space upstairs so I don't have to have that in the basement. The new basement is partially finished with a kitchen which I will retro-fit to a bar area of some sort. More to come on that once I get a cash flow again (need to get the old place ready to rent out as well - anyone moving to MI need a place to rent? QUADS?)

[Quads]

I'm assuming your name is "Terry" or did you buy that sign at a garage sale?

[zathras]

very sweet setup shadow! that place looks huge!

[wyatt880]

Very nice Shadow!

I hope that your new digs will have more Tigers stuff up than your old! :)

[Jbarrow]

Man that aint no mancave dude, kids get sent up the block for running casinos like that..

Tight work !

[Spazum888]

60 people is healthy ammount.
just dont invite the fire chief over for poker
awesome cave

[earnhardtjunkie]

Excellent conversion Shadow! You'll have to keep us updated on rev. 2 at the new place. That kitchen set up you have is great.