I'm not sure how rich / loose with your money you are but a friend of mine got the 5 Oilers replica mini Stanley Cups from the hockey Hall of Fame.
http://shop.hhof.com/novelties/2306-nhl-miniature-stanley-cup.html
One day I might pony up enough money for some signed jerseys and frame them.
http://www.amazon.ca/UPI-Marketing-Inc-SCR10032-Replica/dp/B0063GJCHM
there are 3' stanley cup replicas that run about four bills. they are great. i bought three so far. one to be signed by oilers cup champs and the other two are the start to getting five.
slick pieces. (btw...the one i bought to get signed i have most of the big guys except gretz and the actual oilers currently on staff in the organization which i know is weird. i have an easier time getting guys elsewhere. its a pain to bring around with me on business but i do it. its made some air miles.)
they are so nice that once you buy one you will want another.
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on the topic of chairs... there is a natuzzi leather that can be custom ordered in a blue, which i find matches well with the oilers. natuzzi is in sears.
natuzzi is high quality leather without getting out of hand on price.
i also saw a glass cocktail table that was in the shape of a rain drop...or in an oilers fans brain...an oil drop. i think i saw it at ashleys or online. it was about six bills. i think the matching side tables were just normal squares and were five bills each on sale.
the legs of the table were a light cherry wood. perfect lightness to reprime and paint blue. the glass oil drop top is not kid friendly though. if i had kids acting like the room was their playground id never buy it. kids are banned from horseplay in the man cave for that reason.
add a nice throw rug with the related colors...amazingly the oilers colors are easy to match with. i went with blue being the main color. if you do blue AND orange it doesnt mesh. id choose blue or orange and then go metallic with all the other pieces...i chose blue as main then went with dark coppers, stanley cup silver trim on all frames, display matte black for display tables, curios etc....and then copper for the wet bar fittings etc.
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electrolux had nhl theme 24" wide bottom mount fridges which were 74" high. great to not take up too much space if you need additional beer and fixins space. i just googled and couldnt find so maybe they are discoed
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be aware that lighting has a huge effect on how the colors look. i have a cigar area which gets away from the theme a bit and has yellower incan bulbs. the main area has been lit by blue zoned led lighting with only the tv back lighting as yellow range light.
have fun
PS. my advice. stay away from the nhl furniture etc. the product is crap and you are paying for the logos etcand branding. stay away from that stuff, as it is not worth the price. for nhl stuff focus on the walls and decor. your furniture should be long term and durable yet showable. if you cant do that now...and want to focus the money in the decor than dont spend a tonne on crap thats pvc, vinyl s**t...buy cheap temporary furniture or use your current pieces. the decor is most important at first...and simple comfy furniture will do. then when you are ready to get the furno dooooiiiiiiit
to give you an example... two 90" couches and two high back recliners, in custom natuzzi leather cost me on a great sale four large. fn worth every penny. they look the same as the day i bought them and leather ages great. if i go to friends places they dont have the furniture involved in the theme of the room...but you dont notice it. the furniture part is really just a bonus area of spending that ties the room together.
its not necessary imho. just dont gotacky. that nhl furniture looks like kids room stuff to me. no one will care if you use an old recliner and a beat up sectional. its a man cave. but that nhl stuff...dont do it.
btw CONGRATS ON THE HOUSE!! farout man.
oh and btw... i know i have written alot. but this is key. how much do you want it to be a man cave? how far? when i did mine i wanted my wife to know it was not her place. she gets the rest of the house. thatswhy i turned one of two basement bedrooms into a cigar and poker area and tore down the walls to make them glass. she has to see in at the poker table and big ashtray tables. she cant avoid seeing it. in hind sight i could have just done a full glass door but i figured i didnt want to regret spending money on just changing the door and then feel a need to add more glass later.
then...
i added...
a stripper pole.
yup
no, i dont bring strippers. she has used it a few times (took interest after i got it and now does classes). but the point was to think of things shed find unattractive TO HER. just a few. just to say its mine. i cant stand any of her choices in stuff and i dont complain...so i wanted to make sure that this was mine.
and i added hideous used hockey gloves in clear display cases. she finds them repulsive to see.
mancave truly MANcave.
the stripper pole is copper btw
-----i think i should probably give a referral to the sales person that arranged and thought up most of my design. most of whats done were not my specific ideas to begin. he took my general idea of being slightly wife unfriendly, pool table, wet bar, hockey deco... and just went further. my wife and i now constantly go to him. we just give him a price (budget doesnt seem to matter) an idea of what we want and he comes up with insane stuff and then just lets you know when the best purchase time is. you can message me if you want his info. i refer all my friends to him. he even set me up with his compititors when they had better pieces than he could get.
