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ManSpace: A Primal Guide to Marking Your Territory
It's the book version of HGTV meets For the millions of men around the world who have ceded their bachelor pad decor to laundry rooms and playrooms, ManSpace provides inspiration for men to reclaim private spaces that offer more than big screen TVs and recliners.
ManSpace is a refreshing take on the spaces in and around the home that men claim as their own. The smoking room, the garage workshop, the basement pool room, the recording studio or the wine cellar are just a few examples of the spaces men carve out of their homes. Manspace will profile these spaces to offer inspiration and ideas to other men looking for a way to create personalized places dedicated to their work and play. ManSpace profiles around 50 different spaces from converted air streams trailers and attics to extra bedrooms and out buildings to entire houses dedicated to a man's possessions and activities.
ManSpace is a refreshing take on the spaces in and around the home that men claim as their own. The smoking room, the garage workshop, the basement pool room, the recording studio or the wine cellar are just a few examples of the spaces men carve out of their homes. Manspace will profile these spaces to offer inspiration and ideas to other men looking for a way to create personalized places dedicated to their work and play. ManSpace profiles around 50 different spaces from converted air streams trailers and attics to extra bedrooms and out buildings to entire houses dedicated to a man's possessions and activities.
- GenresNonfiction
224 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 2006
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June 29, 2007
This is really more about 'what some people with piles of money have done' to decorate basements/attics/extra rooms for the exercise of their displays of conspicuous consumption. Not that having some of those spaces so decorated wouldn't be nice -- at least for a while. Maybe. Well, especially if one was liked to watch pro sports on the tube, or liked big cars, and whatnot.
Mostly, the author kept saying things like "and he can invite the guys over for a night of billiards" or "to watch the big game" or "to make some head-pounding music." Not my cups of tea. But look, too, at the underlying message: there is a gaggle of guys also interested in this excess. Some of us are more solo types, interested in quieter pursuits rather than racking up the latest and biggest electronic gear. Some of us don't have a posse.
Book had lots of pretty pictures, though.
Mostly, the author kept saying things like "and he can invite the guys over for a night of billiards" or "to watch the big game" or "to make some head-pounding music." Not my cups of tea. But look, too, at the underlying message: there is a gaggle of guys also interested in this excess. Some of us are more solo types, interested in quieter pursuits rather than racking up the latest and biggest electronic gear. Some of us don't have a posse.
Book had lots of pretty pictures, though.
June 8, 2016
Interior design for men. Real men...not Queer eye for the straight guy men. Very good. Great for ideas.
March 5, 2016
Awesome! Loved it. It's a natural progression from the day dream spy and treehouse books I read as a kid.
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