You Have No Cellar, Nor Do I

[robwoodall]

A couple of years ago, I built an addition to my house. My son, for reasons that make sense only to a six-year-old decided to call it "the Bat Cave."
I decided to just go with the theme. I painted it charcoal grey and smoke blue, and decorated the walls with framed original comic books featuring the Bat Man. It ended up being a really cool, albeit (fancy word for the day - lol) geeky room. It's also where I keep my small-but-growing stash of tobaccos.
So, keep your raggedy old cellars and "man caves." I keep my pipe stuff in the Bat Cave!

 

[fitzy]

Come on over JV.
I actually have a library as well. My house is a colonial so where the formal living room would be is the library. My father in law built it for us when the in laws came to visit for the summer. 3 walls floor to ceiling. Bottom portion is made up of two rows of drawers and the rest are bookshelves. Plus 3 desks built into the 4th wall. I want to add two comfy leather chairs and a small table for the middle of the room and just smoke in there but the wife won't let me smoke anywhere but the basement.
If you can read French my wife has a large selection of books in French.

 

[yaddy306]

To the OP's original point: no one drinks wine in a wine cellar, so I don't know why you'd call a comfortable place to enjoy your pipe a "cellar". Cellars are for storage.

 

[jvnshr]

@fitzy, my wife can read French, let them read, I will be more interested in your French pipes

 

[seacaptain]

I like "cache."

Yep. Best alternative so far.

 

[mvmadore]

My grandfather had a "cellar"...it was the cellar of a 100 year old triple decker he owned and lived in. The "cellar" had a dirt floor, natural stone walls/foundation, beam ceiling...er um the floor joists...and they had a line of nooses made of twine my grandmother used to pluck chickens, he raised. It had a "coal room" and a real wine room...he and his best friend were vintners of Portuguese Port wine and had around one dozen 50 gallon wooden casks in one room where they aged the wine before bottling in one gallon glass jugs and sold in the area to bars, etc. He had his favorite rocking chair next to the coal fired boiler and would sit there and smoke his pipe, drink some wine, in the afternoons. I'd often sit with him and he'd let me have a small glass of Port now and then.
To me that is a cellar to wish for. He died when I was 17...'72...and I have his last pipe, an old Dunhill my mom bought him the previous Christmas...and I still think of him with wonderful memories and probably smoke a pipe because of him.

 

[bbc417]

I rent the studio adjacent to me and only have tobacco and associated hardware in it….. do I have a cellar?

 

[warren]

One cellars wine to let it age. Are you aging tobacco there? If so I suppose you could apply the wine term to your stash, cache, store house, stuff or collection.

 

[fitzy]

Jv not many French pipes. Just one fancy clay one my Inlaws gave me but I do have plenty of tobacco to share.

 

[oldtoby]

My house is my so called "cellar'. Yep. Lucky me. lol.

 

[winton]

We have about 3/4 of our basement finished. My stash of loose leaf tea is stored in the shelves under the stairs. My stash of tobacco is in a large storage container, in a corner of our bedroom. My smoking area is either at the B&M where my pipe club meets or in my detached garage, if it is warm enough.

 

[foggymountain]

I have combined the cellar and smoking room. I had the dining room in my house altered to become a room not connected to the kitchen. It even has a john.

 

[cynicismandsugar]

Foggy, that office/cellar is the stuff of dreams!

 

[davet]

:worship:

 

[elbert]

For myself, I like 'cellar' for the collection itself (by way of metonymy), and 'study' for the room set aside for its enjoyment. In which case, I find myself in the unenviable position described in Henry Thoreau's essay on Walking:

When a traveller asked Wordsworth’s servant to show him her master’s study, she answered "Here is his library, but his study is out of doors."

For (alas!) that is where you'll find my smoking room.

 

[mvmadore]

Holy Moly Foggymountain...that is one awesome room...

 

[iamn8]

Now that's a cellar!!!

 

[deathmetal]

I like "Cellar" as a verb, "Library" for the room where gentlemen smoke, and "pipe cabinet" for where the stash goes.

 

[iamn8]

If you google "Wine Cellar" you'll find a VASTLY different result from "tobacco cellar". This was my point I prefer smoking in a wine cellar than a pipe closet.

 

[organizedmadman]

Foggymountain you have a NICE setup there!
But I too can back up the claim to a dedicated smoking and drinking room.

I can honestly say, gentlemen let us retire to MY cellar for a smoke and a drink!