The walls are painted, the furniture, area rug, lighting and blinds are in place and the cave paintings are hung. At long last, John M.'s "Man Cave II" is ready for habitation.
The finishing touches were made to the cave while John and his wife, Karen, were away on a trip. When they returned home, John sent me this message:
"Karen and I just returned home and had to run upstairs first thing to see the MC II! It is wonderful! LOVE the prints, and, of course, you already know that we love the rest. The new rug is perfect. I can almost (not quite) take credit for killin’ the b’ar just like Davey Crockett did. And, the “rearranging” you did is great. We hadn’t done anything more with positioning things because of the trip and wanting to see the prints on the walls, but your taste, as usual, works just great for us! I am SO looking forward to hibernating in the cave for a long time. (Winter doesn’t end for another six months, does it?)"
Shortly thereafter, John and Karen unveiled the new cave to family members and I received another e-mail from John:"We “unveiled” the MC II tonight to Sue and Paul, Beth and Tim. All were very impressed an insanely jealous. I think they liked it."
Take a look at the "before" and "after" photos below:
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This was an extremely fun project to work on, and I want to thank John and Karen for giving me the latitude to take the cave theme all the way from inspiration to installation. My sincere hope is that this space will be a place of refuge for John, who is now officially a modern-day cave man. Here's hoping Karen can lure him out of the cave once in awhile!
It's Karen's turn next...we're going to remodel the kitchen. Do you think we should call it her "gal cave"?
Stay tuned...!
