If you've ever been fortunate enough to have a spare room in your house, or maybe a room that needs sprucing up a bit, then you'll know that the first thought is always the same: a man cave.
What makes a cave manish is pretty broad; it can be a games room, filled with retro arcade machines, consoles, a dart board and a pool table. Or it could be a bar, filled with beer pumps, a spirit optic and a jukebox.
Usually though, it starts out with big ideas but inevitably ends up with a few chairs in there, with an old PS2 connected to an tele from your nan's house. It's a shame, because if it was easy to build the perfect man cave, and was cheap, it'd be the best place to hang out.
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These lads tried thinking about what they could do with the spare room in their mate, Jase Hare's, gaff, eventually turning it into a bar where they hold live music sessions.
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"Jase Hare had a third bedroom spare and at a party asked 'what should I do with this room?' and our friend Tony said 'build a bar'," Joe Brumby told TheLADbible. "Jase set about doing that and after six months he didn't just make one of those poor 'bars some people have', he built a proper pub.
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"It's got an actual authentic wooden bar, bar stools (we drove to Hull and bought from a hotel), authentic books such as Man's Guide to Being a Man, grotty gentleman's club curtains, a working fire, brass light fittings, optics, beer of the months and best of all, two swing back, dirty green gentleman's bar style chairs."
The greatness of this spare room pub doesn't end here, though. The bar was named The Hare and Hound, and holds music sessions for bands.
The lad's invite musicians to come and play for free, with Joe recording the audio and filming the sessions. From time-to-time they'll stream it on The Hare And Hound Sessions Facebook page, and even pay for the band's petrol.
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"We basically ask bands to travel from anywhere in the country to come down and play a set," Joe said. "I record the audio and film it so they get a copy of it, we also go live on Facebook and ask random questions and the audience can chip in too.
"It's all free for the bands and we even pay their petrol to come play for us.
"We've had King No-One, Morris, Mint, Flood Hounds, Sam Simmons, Mouses, Peter Keaveney and we're set to see several up-and-coming bands play this year."
Credit: The Hare and Hound Sessions
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Back in December, in order to raise money so they could host future events, they expanded for one night only.
Moving away from the man cave, they headed to a local venue where they put on some live music with a laid back atmosphere. Guests could sit back on sofas, enjoy the acts, ask them questions and then partake in competitions like best Christmas jumper and a raffle, with a chance to win a PlayStation 4.
"We're looking to grow and get some more events arranged in the future, get some more people involved to help us tick over," Joe told the Grimsby Telegraph.
We've got an awful lot of time for this. One of the best man caves we've ever seen.
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Well in, guys.
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