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I'll be turning my garage into my own personal "man cave", and the theme will be none other then the Cleveland Browns!

My garage is about 16' x 18', and is in great shape with new drywall. The idea of what I'd like to accomplish is not a "Visit to Cleveland Brown's Stadium" theme, but an actual "On the field during game day" theme. Where is the one spot most of us will never get to be? Down on the field.

So, for the flooring, I'm installing a grass green turf carpet for the entire garage. Then, once installed, I'll paint the lines, numbers, logos, and endzones on the turf to create a "scaled" field of the Cleveland Browns



The company wants $559.50 for something I should be able to do myself, I'm pretty good with paint and stencils.

For the walls, I'm down to two options, which I'm still debating on. The walls will either have a professionally paint mural covering every square inch including the ceilings with a "sideline" view of the stadium bleachers, all the way to the top (filled with people), orange seats and ect, then the clouds on the ceiling. This look would go all the way around in a 360 view.

The problem with this would be finding the right artist to get the look just right, and then I have no idea how much hand painted murals of that size would cost, but I bet they wouldn't be cheap at all.

The second option is finding images of the same thing mentioned above, and having them blown up to cover the entire wall. This option would be more realistic looking, but the hardest part would be trying to find the perfect set of images (4) that create the 360 effect (since I'd have both sidelines and endzones).

The rest of my plan get easier, lol. I'd like to find one football couch to put in the middle of the room facing the overhead projection tv (110"+) with two football chairs on both ends facing the TV on an angle. Stereo and Surround sound a must obviously. Speaker in each of the corners of the room.

I've been thinking of where the Projection Screen will be housed, I was thinking of encasing the screen in a "field goal" post, where the screen would be between the uprights of the posts.

As for lighting, I'm thinking of recreating miniature stadium lighting (not sure with what yet, I've got to look at a few options first) and hang the lights where they should be according to where they would be on the stadium mural/images.

Lastly of course would be the bar or "concession stand" recreation, lol.

Thoughts? Ideas?

Also, if anyone can find any great stadium pictures of all 4 sides from the sidelines, I've love to see them, to see if they would be something I'm looking for.

The idea is that this will also become our home theater room too.

alot of work, time, effort and money, but it certainly sounds cool.

I don't see how you could go to all that effort though and not have stadium seating for your watching pleasure. a simple 3-step structure for coaches would make all the difference as your own personal dawg-pound.

Try something like this. Not necessarily this company, but there are several options for custom wallpaper.

http://www.muralsyourway.com/

Something like this, but with fans in the seats and ect:



Would have to crop out the people and part of the field. But that is a view of nearly the entire sideline, bleachers and ect.



Same thing, but too much field in it.

Look into getting it airbrushed. They are more reasonable and look cool. You can probably call any upscale builder or interior decorator and ask for a reference to their muralist. Try finding different sets of pictures that has the city, Lake, Rock Hall/Science center in the background. Maybe find a mini scoreboard on ebay and use that in place of the mural one.

I thought of the scoreboard thing too, and would be awesome to somehow connect it to the internet (perhaps NFL.com) so the scoreboard would display the score, quarter, down and time. But I don't think that's possible unless you create a program of some sort, and that's out of my realm of knowledge.

lol, I understand what you mean now. Never thought of that.

WOW! Now that's cool!!

Geez.. you don't screw around when you want a man cave do you?

I like your ideas!

If your going to do anything at all, you might as well go all out to enjoy your satisfaction!

You forgot the final step....inviting me over to watch the game!

I've seen people do the stadium/theatre seating by using pallets and just covering them with cushions. Looked pretty cool. Besides, it's a man-cave, pallet seating should be 100% acceptable.

You should make a dart board with big ben's fat face as the background.

My dream is to have something similar, with 2 tv's hooked up through Directv, one on the Browns, one on the Red Zone channel. How awesome would that be?

Any pictures of one? Never personally seen it.

Looks pretty sweet! However doesn't look like much leg room, lol.

Easy to build into that design though. Just saw off the pallets at the halfway point to build in that legroom. Or just structure the pallets offset of each other to build it in that way.

Definitely. Plus it's pretty cool that you're recycling at the same time. Always good.

I would definitely mess around with a setup like that if I had a big enough basement.

All the chips and cheese sauce and salsa that will be all over that in no time. Somebody yelling "down in front" in your cave is cause for manslaughter charges too.

No, I think I'd skip that set up.

Are you a season ticket holder? If so just let the know what you're doing and ask to go on the field and take some pictures for your project.

Not sure where Fremont is but can't be too far of a drive.

This is the only way to go for seating

Check out your local Goodwill stores, they have items you might be able to use cheep....Tables, chairs, bar stools, good thing about these is that there used so whatever you do to them isnt gonna ruin them and you dont have alot of money in them if your buddy gets drunk and falls on your table..

you can paint them, add Browns players pictures to the tables old football cards ect and lacqure over it, Years ago we got a old leather couch for $ 20.00 at goodwill, fixed the legs and we uesd it for years, even with TIM written on the back ...get it Tim Couch...sorry but true story....we got bar stools for $3.00 each painted them orange & Brown and were still using them today.

Good luck

Awesome!

1 question
Do you want CBS or the real stadium on your walls, course guess that depends on your age?

Here's a thing I saw on one of the DIY makeovers.Get an overhead projector they are cheap now, get one here @ univ for $5-10, anyway.
the guy took pictures & made B/W copies on clear plastic and then project it on wall. You can zoom it to size & pretty much pencil trace and then paint.
Probably work as color copy too
The pic above from field level you would only need one for most of stadium
& then a couple for each endzone.

Another thought get a high school or college art student to help, they could always use a few bucks & maybe course credits.

I want the actual stadium.

I've thought of the overhead projector, but that would be A LOT of fine details and not sure if it would "look" right.

Hoot-man, we are allinvited over for the christening, right? Burning River brew might be served. Sounds fabulous! Keep us posted.