"Gun Room" in Progress! Help please!

Gotta have a poster with dogs playing poker. Must have!

Maybe a theme or something, depends on your firearm taste. Cowboy, military, maybe you like black guns just make it a place you won't mind hanging out in for a few hours ,but its gotta have one thing a mini !


No not mini 14 a mini frigerator

A small pool table surrounded by guns with nice low voltage halogens, maybe some framed pictures of field dogs, a couple of remington "copies". And your gun safe. if you have the room. Otherwise a big leather couch and a table made of slate or a tree cut in half. You could set up your reloading bench off to the side, or maybe have it hinged to the wall to save space. then some old wooden shelving for all your stuff built into the wall. It can be as simple or as complicated as you like. Take your time

SOUTHPAW said:

Actually, the old color was earth tone! Haha, the whole house is eath tone tans and browns. It gets really really boring when every room is almost the same color. My GF painted her room red!

As mentioned, I'm really looking to go very modern/industrial themed. Very contemporary and kind of, well, dentist office-like. Not looking to do the woodsman/hunting thing (ducks, etc.).

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I fully understand, and I think it'll look great with a contemporary style. I personally can't stand the wood, books and trophy look, as posted in a pic earlier. I think your room would look good with technical diagrams, and clean dark furniture with strong lines, and glass.

If you want to keep it modern and industrial, all but a few things you might find at the surplus store will turn it tacky real quickly. If it were me, this is where I would keep my gear, I use clean and tight hanging systems, box shelving, and pretty much paint it all black. I would replace the light (as previously mentioned) and build/re-furbish a beautiful reloading bench. If you don't reload, I think this would be an excellent time to start.

As for technical drawings/posters, here's a site I've bought a few things from to fill up wall space, they have just about everything, All Posters, it's not the very best selection of gun related images, but its a start, and they're reliable, and fast on shipping.

Also, I would sort through my current photography collection and possibly blow up some of my own photographs (poster size) for wall arrangements. If you're not into photography then forget it, but since it's abundantly clear that you have a genuine interest in guns, I'd venture to say that you must use them to some degree, whether you're a hunter, or simply a range junkie, beautiful photography can be taken anywhere. I envy you for your free bedroom, I would be having a lot of fun in your shoes, as i'm sure you are.

Framed cartridge comparison displays...

Hey SOUTHPAW...try this link...Really cool...
www.cabelas.com/p-0018793610020a.shtml:)

If it doesn't come through, on the Cabela's page, type in Tatonka rifle cartridge board in the search block...They also have handgun cartridges, cowboy cartridges, etc...
Just a thought...Good luck,
Tac

Now I wouldn't normally seek interior design help from you guys

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This may qualify for understatement of the year . . .

Well, Southpaw, you've got a good start with that battleship-gray paint . . . you weren't in the Navy, by chance, were you?

SOUTHPAW,

Posters are great, but I made a list of my favorite western and action movies. Then went on E-Bay to find photos of the stars with their guns. Like:
Steve McQueen
Glen Ford
Gary Cooper
Clark Gable
Gregory Peck
Clint Eastwood
Marlon Brando
Ronald Reagan
Burt Lancaster
Dean Martin
John Wayne
…and a lot more.

Have fun decorating!

My "Man Cave" isn't "tasteful", "fancy", or "female friendly". In fact the entrace to my "Cave" is posted with a slight tweak on a Henrik Ibsen quote which reads, "A woman cannot (nor should she try to) be herself in the society of the present day ("Man Cave"), which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view."

Nevertheless, I had a partially finished basement with a fireplace and a bunch of collections taking up space in closets around the house, and so I decided to take over the basement and make it my room. It now has a number of "vignettes". One corner contains my World War II collection of firearms, helmets, wooden crates, ammo cans, photos, posters and miscellaneous other military stuff. On the walls are framed, authentic World War II era newspapers, including headlines on the Normandy Invasion, Wake Island, Bombing of Pearl Harbor, Battle of the Buldge, Iwo Jima, the Japanese and German surrender, etc. I also have a Japanese and German newspaper. Other areas of the room contain prehistoric and historic artifact displays, and fossil collections. My books, my desk with laptop, etc.

I started my "man cave" with a Winchester safe. That lead to the Winchester framed posters and tin signs. Then a Winchester clock. If you're into S&W's or Rugers, etc. there is a bunch of items to spruce up the 'ol cave.

If you are into the technical drawing stuff there is guy on the 1919 board selling function drawings of the 1919a4. They are informative and look decent when framed

I'll second framed copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. NRA also sells framed pictures showing the evolution of the service rifles and handguns. I think it'd be cool to link freedom to the guns that kept us free.

Shotgun shell shot glasses

http://www.after5catalog.com/12gauge-shot-glasses-set-p-13.html?cPath=1_6_12

A Couple of Lester's Ammo re-prints. You know, "America's Cheapest Ammo" that "Usually Works". You can even even order one of them customized with your name directly from the artists' website: ]http://www.blueloonfinearts.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/LestersAmmo_bear450.jpg

-Matt

I'm with Just One Shot: Secure the windows and install a superb security system before you drop a lot of money into the bells and whistles that everyone will appreciate when they walk into the room.

It's a terrific idea -- hope it works out well for you.

MattTheHat, thanks for the great posters!
Your link, however, is borked ... here's one to the "Gloden Age Parodies" on that site:
http://www.blueloonfinearts.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=GoldenAgeParodies

SOUTHPAW...if it's gonna be a gun room, you've gotta have this...
http://candy-crate.stores.yahoo.net/barfifsecag.html

You have to show us pics when you're done...
Tac

I say don't worry about posters and decorations, you need something solid, commanding and solely yells I love my guns and this room is dedicated to them, a poster and a book won't do. I say remove your closet doors, build a nice glass display case (in addition to your safe) and/or display table making your previous closet into a gun cache niche. Like the cabela gun room only much smaller. It's a gun room, a room where you want to look and just soak in the pride of owning fine firearms that are yours. Memorabilia and little decoration will always come but a closet turned built in firearm sanctuary, now that is a manly thing!

If you hunt, mounted animals (you can buy them from taxidermists and make up stories)

If you reload, put the bench in the closet to keep the clutter out of sight.

A nice decanter set with some premium beverage and crystal tumblers is nice as would a repro Remington bronze

One of the bullet displays can be nice if framed well, or an arrowhead display framed nicely

Some nice dark beadboard wainscoating and a few of the 30's style club chairs for enjoying that premium beverage.

One of the electronic shooting games on the wall might be fun a,so.

Good luck!

I know it isn't exactly a thread specific response, however. . .

"SOUTHPAW...if it's gonna be a gun room, you've gotta have this...
http://candy-crate.stores.yahoo.net/barfifsecag.html"

Was I destined to find this thread? Not too long ago I had a dream about a new TV show. It was called "The Barney Fife Show". Period Black and White, he was going to be a Sheriff in a new town. How long has Don Knotts been dead now? Yea, Ole Don was a funny guy, and good shot from what I hear.

I didn't have a bunch of money to put into my "Man Cave", so I just tried to utilize the available space, and mostly items that I already had on hand. The picture below is of my humble WWII gun collection (from left to right - 1942 Izzy Mosin Nagant, 1940 Nagoya Type 38 w/bayonet and intact Mum, 1939 Tula Nagant Revolver, 1943 BSA No4 MK1 Enfield w/bayonet attached, 1944 Rockola M1 Carbine in an older hi-wood stock that has two "kill" notches carved into the buttstock, a 1944 Springfield M1 Garand, and 1938 Mauser K98) . I've been working on some plans with a friend, for a wall mounted display, but here is what it looks like at present. The books in the foreground are from a men's Bible study that I have in my "Cave" each week. You can also see some of the other items, like the fossils on the fireplace, old crocks, antique hunting supplies, and pocket knife collection on the corner cupboard, a couple of "Star and Stripes", etc. Althought it may not look all that great, I find the space very comfortable.

Doug S said:

.....picture below is of my humble WWII gun collection.....books in the foreground are from a men's Bible study that I have in my "Cave" each week

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I remember hearing something about those people that "cling to God and Guns".....glad to know I'm not the only one.