Oops. I think you may have misunderstood me. By "mechanical room", I mean the room with my boiler, indirect hot water heater, security system, central stereo/cable system and air exchange system.
You still have a gym, soundproof music room and a high volume air exchanger (whatever that is). Still sounds like a bad ass house! Not to mention it's your HOUSE IN DENVER, versus the one in Lake Oswego? lol.
man, I do miss a basement..For the past decade we have been in a modest ranch style house that is only 1980 sq ft. I have liad caim to the family room. The seconed fridge is in the utility room a few feet away, I have all the happy stuff to hide out for days..
The "gym" consists of an elliptical machine, a Real Ryder stationary bike, a Concept II model D ergometer, free weights and a bench. I haven't even set it up yet, as the basement is still being restructured. As for soundproofing a room, it's easier than it sounds. I picked a corner that has no windows and backs up onto our yard (using earth as soundproofing beyond the brick and concrete). I'm framing the room with 2X4 studding, putting Roxul Safe & Sound in the walls, and blowing in 10" of the same product (non-batted) in the ceiling. I'm then covering the walls and ceilings with Quietrock. The ceilings will have sound diminishing channels across the joists as well. The door will be an insulated exterior door with weatherstripping. The inside of the room will be covered with sound absorbing foam (the stuff that looks like egg cartons). It won't be perfect, but it will eliminate 80-90% of the noise. A high-volume air exchanger just pulls the existing air from a room and then pulls in fresh air from outside and conditions it (makes it warmer or cooler) and replaces it. Most cigar rooms have the same thing. I don't mind cigar smoke, but I do mind the lingering smell.
I'll post pics after I finish the basement, if you're interested. Right now everything but the Concept II is in a storage unit. I don't think I'm going to make it particularly nice (mirrors, etc.), just a room to hide the equipment from the bar area. You work out, don't you? You seemed to make a remarkable recovery from your colon removal. Any suggestions? Should I install a bar on which to do pull-ups?
A treadmill desk? I've never heard of one of those. One of my partners works at a standing desk and he loves it. He had back issues for years and tried a standing desk out of frustration. Of course, he may have done it so no one ever meets with him in his office.
One thing I'm giving up in my basement is a "listening room". I don't watch TV nearly as much as I listen to music. When I was a bachelor, my stereo used to have a prominent place in my house, meaning the furniture was arranged for optimal listening. Hopefully in our next place I can get that as well.
A man cave thread without some expression of strong manlove and mutual admiration between bobobrewski and bobdobalina is not a man cave thread.
