Shop loft man cave.

[f150skidoo]

So i'm turning half of my dads wood shops attic into a man cave the space is 13' 4" by 55' and the ceiling height is 8' to the bottom of the collar ties. I'm only going to seal half of the space off because its a very use full storage space, since there's a 4' x 8' trap door in the floor with a 3/4 ton cable hoist in the ceiling. I'm going to frame the room off to be 27' 8", and insulate, vapor barrier drywall plus run more outlets and lights.


Only pic of the outside of the shop


This is the area that's going to be sealed off to be the man cave


This is the entire attic of the shop besides that there's a gable with a window on the left side

Over the Easter long weekend i cleaned out and organized the attic.

 

[JC23]

Won't he be pissed?

 

[f150skidoo]

Won't he be pissed?

Nope he gave me permission to do this. He wants to turn entire up stairs into a apartment many years down the road so it will be already half done.

 

[f150skidoo]

Finished tidying up the mess in the attic yesterday. Today we left work early because of the weather so i picked up a bunch of studs on the way home from work and started to framing the loft up.




The progress as of this evening.

 

[f150skidoo]

Got a bunch of work finished over the past few weekends. I finished the framing today and started to run the A/V cables from the area were the bar goes under the floor and up to the TV on the wall. i still have to run speaker wire before i can put the piece of the sub floor back in. The electrician is coming on Tuesday to rough in the wiring.

 

[c0r3y.af]

We have a similar shaped barn-style garage at our home with a small loft up top. I've always wanted to do something like this but unfortunately we have so much "stuff" that it all needs to be used for storage.

 

[f150skidoo]

Electrician was in today roughing in the wires. i finished running speaker wires in the walls and also stapled up moore vents to the bottom of the roof.

 

[f150skidoo]

Haven't posted in here for a couple weeks but i got insulation in and vapor barrier up The walls are R14 and ceiling is R22, I still have to tuck tape the vapor barrier joints. Today i was working at my bosses friends house gutting it and i manged to salvage a couple rooms worth of laminate flooring. Unfortunately I'm about 80 sqft short of flooring, and since the flooring is 7 years old i doubt i can get the same finish. So I 'm going to do a 2' border around the room in a dark colored laminate so i can have enough to do the room.

Here is the color of the laminate in the room before it got gutted.

 

[f150skidoo]

Picked up 38 sheets of drywall today and me and my buddy lifted all of it up with the ceilings cable hoist.

 

[f150skidoo]

Finished the tuck taping today and started putting up board in the stair well. hopefully all the board will be done by the end of next weekend.

 

[f150skidoo]

Got half the drywall done today with the help of a few buddies, And have to keep the beer fridge well stocked for the project.

 

[gordyy]

I like the hoist opening all lofts should be so equiped

 

[f150skidoo]

Finished dry walling today and i am ready to start taping next weekend.

 

[f150skidoo]

The tapers finished up today.

 

[John in OH]

This cave is looking great! From your reference to "tapers", I assume you hired out that step of the drywall work ... wise decision!!

Can you post a couple of pics of the hoist installation? Particularly, how it is supported.

 

[rharman]

Plans for a bathroom up there? Kitchen(ette)?

 

[KCarGuy]

Looks Great so far.
I cannot Wait to see what you do to it next.

 

[marty_p]

Sure going to be nice!

 

[f150skidoo]

This cave is looking great! From your reference to "tapers", I assume you hired out that step of the drywall work ... wise decision!!

Can you post a couple of pics of the hoist installation? Particularly, how it is supported.

Yes we did hire tapers to do the work, I would just make a mess of taping and would take me 10x longer than the pros.

The winch is bolted to a 6x6 beam, and is resting on tripled up rafters on both ends of the beam. This is the only pic i have of the setup.

 

[f150skidoo]

Plans for a bathroom up there? Kitchen(ette)?

Theirs a bathroom downstairs in the actual shop and now i don't have any plans for a kitchen(ette) beside having a microwave up there.

 

[f150skidoo]

Over the weekend i was busy painting, got it primed and 2 coats of wall and ceiling colours. Even got the speaker mounted up.

 

[f150skidoo]

Well the man cave is pretty much done, ill i have yet to do is build the bar. I also installed a 10,000 BTU portable AC.

 

[Anglia Guy]

You did a great job. It looks fantastic!!

 

[MTRD3]

Wow, awesome work! Where abouts in Ontario are you?

 

[f150skidoo]

Wow, awesome work! Where abouts in Ontario are you?

Thanks, i'm about 45 minutes north west of Toronto not far from Orangeville.

 

[f150skidoo]

So today my dad and I started the bar, well he pretty built it on his own and was just helping lol. I didn't bother taking progress pictures but so far i only took pictures of the back panel finished and the cabinets for the booze and AV equip. We still have yet to install the bar.

 

[f150skidoo]

Bar got installed today and installed a receptacle for HDMI and component audio so you can hook up your ipod and laptop to the tv or receiver with out wires hanging down the cabinet.

 

[FXDawg]

wow nice work!

 

[Lone Star Blaze]

other than the Make believes jersey it looks great

 

[Purist]

Hey PO, any updates? Been a while since you had any info here. Curious to see how everything turned out.

 

[Catadj78]

 

[James-W]

Looks really nice!

 

[Cummins01]

cool build!