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Cheap, epic man cave

He created a proper log cabin type man cave in the middle of the city, with only just more than a 1000 bucks… Yup just over R1000.

We will most definitely soon be using some of these tips to make our headquarters a bit more mancave like.

Here is the finished result:

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The plain ugly room he started off with:
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The old crate wood he got from a steel shipping company and he used the planks from them:
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He used a draw knife to make each plank look hand cut:
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The walls busy coming up:
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Even a freaking awesome fake fireplace made with stones he picked up next to the road:
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The center ceiling beam is one of the few pieces of wood he had to buy and then he aged it:
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Same planks that were used for the walls were cut tongue and groove and are then used for the floor boards:
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Fake pillars were even made to hide some of the old steel round tube pillars:
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Fake pillars with fake lock joints to hide more stuff:
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Finished man cave took roughly 6 weeks, most of the other stuff was free:
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The window is actually a photos with a light behind it:
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Even real ashes were put on the fake fireplace to make it look more real:

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The stuff used to decorate and put in the room were MUCH more expensive than the room itself, a lekker proper hunting cabin.

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Even most of the furniture and shelves were made from reclaimed wood:

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