Guys,
I think I've posted a couple of pictures, over the last few months, of my modest little mancave. It is my home office that I had fitted with a high velocity whisper quiet exhaust fan that allows me to enjoy my pipes and cigars. My son and pipe pal Nick sits up with me a few times a week and we enjoy a pipe together and catch up on the day. I also take turns with my other buds hosting poker games once a month or so.
As you will see in the before pictures... This PAD, TAD and EPRD (estate pipe resto disorder) I've contracted has caused me to outgrow the meager accommodations of my little hideout.
The befores...
Staircase leading up to the cave, my neighbor calls it "The Stairway to Heaven"
Top of the stairs.
Getting ready for a poker game a couple of months ago.
My tobacco crawl space at the beginning of the year... (it's on the top shelf of the bookcase on the left)
Tobacco crawl space after the TAPS Expo...
So, as I was outgrowing my shelf space I was trying to decide what to do about it. I probably need to disclose right now that I am a very thrifty guy. After 26 years in the car business, I absolutely hate to pay List Price for anything.
As I was looking at the different options on pipe cabinets and more shelves or bookcases, regardless of how nice they were, I just couldn't get over the price of some of these. Heck a small little pipe cabinet that held 20 or so pipes was several hundred dollars. I even saw some for thousands of dollars. (yikes!)
While surfing craigslist and other garage sale sites I kept noticing how cheap the old "Entertainment Centers" had become. What was once thousands of dollars were now only four or five hundred. This would sovle several problems for me...
1. A place for the Tobacco
2. A place for the Pipes
3. A place for my TV
4. A place for my refurbin gear
After a couple of weeks of looking every day I ran across a really nice looking setup that the fella was asking $200 for. After talking to him I got it down to $150.
So, today my son Nick and I rented a small uhaul truck and made our way up to Apex NC, about an hour or so north. When we got there the owner met us and proceeded to take us uptairs to the family room. This unit was huge. 5 pieces, with the center piece being enormous and very heavy.
I told him that I was a little disheartened to learn that we would need to haul it down the stairs. He felt bad about it and knocked another $50 off. So we got it for $100! My kind a deal. (did I mention that I'm thrifty, the Blonde calls it CHEAP!).
After 45 minutes of loading the truck, 1 hour of driving back down to Pinehurst and over 1 hour of lugging all of it up the stairs to my mancave we finally had it set up.
I then spent the next glorious couple of hours setting it all up.
Here's how it turned out...
Top shelf is the Esoterica shelf. So far I've been able to find 2 bags and 1/2 tins of Margate, 1 bag of Woodbridge, 1 bag of Dorchester, 1 tin and 9.7 oz of Penzance & several oz of Stonehaven. (I feel very fortunate )
Corner unit and bottom shelf full of 29 large jars of C.B. Perkins Tobacco (picked it up from a fella that bout it from a closed store)
Top shelf is some of my nicer pipes (couldn't get my 24 pipe rack to fit up there), 2nd shelf is some of my cigar stuff, 3rd shelf is 20 something jars of various tobaccos, including several jars of 3 & 4 oz Lane samples from the TAPS expo, 4th shelf is Nicks pipe rack.
More jars and a few bags...
All five units in all their glory. 8) (over 10' wide)
23 or so of the modest stable...
Look at all those beautiful Bulldogs.
Finally, the desk all cleaned up and tonight's briars set up for the evening's tobacco medley.
Top of the
I think I've posted a couple of pictures, over the last few months, of my modest little mancave. It is my home office that I had fitted with a high velocity whisper quiet exhaust fan that allows me to enjoy my pipes and cigars. My son and pipe pal Nick sits up with me a few times a week and we enjoy a pipe together and catch up on the day. I also take turns with my other buds hosting poker games once a month or so.
As you will see in the before pictures... This PAD, TAD and EPRD (estate pipe resto disorder) I've contracted has caused me to outgrow the meager accommodations of my little hideout.
The befores...
Staircase leading up to the cave, my neighbor calls it "The Stairway to Heaven"
Top of the stairs.
Getting ready for a poker game a couple of months ago.
My tobacco crawl space at the beginning of the year... (it's on the top shelf of the bookcase on the left)
Tobacco crawl space after the TAPS Expo...
So, as I was outgrowing my shelf space I was trying to decide what to do about it. I probably need to disclose right now that I am a very thrifty guy. After 26 years in the car business, I absolutely hate to pay List Price for anything.
As I was looking at the different options on pipe cabinets and more shelves or bookcases, regardless of how nice they were, I just couldn't get over the price of some of these. Heck a small little pipe cabinet that held 20 or so pipes was several hundred dollars. I even saw some for thousands of dollars. (yikes!)
While surfing craigslist and other garage sale sites I kept noticing how cheap the old "Entertainment Centers" had become. What was once thousands of dollars were now only four or five hundred. This would sovle several problems for me...
1. A place for the Tobacco
2. A place for the Pipes
3. A place for my TV
4. A place for my refurbin gear
After a couple of weeks of looking every day I ran across a really nice looking setup that the fella was asking $200 for. After talking to him I got it down to $150.
So, today my son Nick and I rented a small uhaul truck and made our way up to Apex NC, about an hour or so north. When we got there the owner met us and proceeded to take us uptairs to the family room. This unit was huge. 5 pieces, with the center piece being enormous and very heavy.
I told him that I was a little disheartened to learn that we would need to haul it down the stairs. He felt bad about it and knocked another $50 off. So we got it for $100! My kind a deal.
(did I mention that I'm thrifty, the Blonde calls it CHEAP!).After 45 minutes of loading the truck, 1 hour of driving back down to Pinehurst and over 1 hour of lugging all of it up the stairs to my mancave we finally had it set up.
I then spent the next glorious couple of hours setting it all up.
Here's how it turned out...
Top shelf is the Esoterica shelf. So far I've been able to find 2 bags and 1/2 tins of Margate, 1 bag of Woodbridge, 1 bag of Dorchester, 1 tin and 9.7 oz of Penzance & several oz of Stonehaven. (I feel very fortunate )
Corner unit and bottom shelf full of 29 large jars of C.B. Perkins Tobacco (picked it up from a fella that bout it from a closed store)
Top shelf is some of my nicer pipes (couldn't get my 24 pipe rack to fit up there), 2nd shelf is some of my cigar stuff, 3rd shelf is 20 something jars of various tobaccos, including several jars of 3 & 4 oz Lane samples from the TAPS expo, 4th shelf is Nicks pipe rack.
More jars and a few bags...
All five units in all their glory. 8) (over 10' wide)
23 or so of the modest stable...
Look at all those beautiful Bulldogs.
Finally, the desk all cleaned up and tonight's briars set up for the evening's tobacco medley.
Top of the
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