how to masculinize my room?

[insideontheoutside]

Males: Tidy rooms, everything in its place, owner of said space looks like he slept under hedge
Females: Room covered in washing and other items (often unwashed), owner of said space looks immaculately turned out.

Actually, this is similar to what I always knew of friends too. Except the dudes I knew usually had more long term clutter - like stacks of things, piles of things. The chicks however it was like a tornado happened ... just stuff everywhere.

As to the room situation - put stuff you LIKE in the room.

[Mr.Rainey]

Litter the floor with beer cans, porn and tools.

[Keaira]

Litter the floor with beer cans, porn and tools.

He said BEDROOM, not the garage!

[slytherin]

just go for a dark/dull color scheme i.e greys and blues, greens... or whatever, and imo if you have curtains they kind of feminize a room so get blinds or something like that

my room is just white with loads of blink-182 posters, black blinds, I have dark green nightmare before christmas bedsheets lol um... I have my skateboards and my instruments (bass, drums... and a guitar but it's actually my brothers guitar ), my tv & ps3 and ->-bleeped-<-... that kind of clutters my room up but I think them type of things can masculinize my room in their own way... my room looks like a guys room, haven't put any effort into it so it's probably why

oh and just asking but am I the only person who hates bedrooms with posters of cars and girls on the walls and all that ->-bleeped-<-? looks proper wank but if you're proper into that stuff then it's not so bad, just a bit stereotypically boring and what not in my opinion but that's probably just me... hmm

[cindianna_jones]

how can i masculinize my room ive gotten rid of all the feminine things but its still rather androgynous looking.

Get rid of all your furniture. Throw your matress on the floor. Put all your stuff in cardboard boxes. Use your closet for your guitars and amps. And to top it all off, get a whizbang computer table with an Alienware gaming system.  Oh.... and don't forget to leave some smelly sneakers in your room... or at least some socks you've worked out in for a couple days.

Or... get curtains and bed coverings all in cameo. Make sure that your bedside light has a cameo shade. Hang some cool gun posters up. Keep the stinky shoes.

Or... keep all the foo and tell everyone it's your girlfriend's room. Seriously. Step into any clean and well cared for married couple's room. Which influence to you see?

Now seriously.... If I removed my stuffed animals and the flower arrangement from my room, no one could tell if it were a boys room or a girls room. My furniture is in pine. I have a neutral colored comforter and standard mini blinds. The Astronomy picture on the wall is non-gender but very pretty. Just go for earthy colors, get rid of the spindle white girls bed, and hang up some prints that you like... and don't forget the shoes

Chin up!

Cindi

[Assoluta]

If you inject it with testosterone that should masculinise your room 

But seriously, just have the room however you want, there's no need to make a concerted effort to make a room more 'masculine' or 'feminine', just how you want your room to be.

[Squirrel698]

But seriously, just have the room however you want, there's no need to make a concerted effort to make a room more 'masculine' or 'feminine', just how you want your room to be.

Thank you!  I agree with this completely.  You should have your room however you want it.  If you're a guy and you are, then the room will be masculine enough.  Get rid of what makes you uncomfortable in your room and keep what you like.

I still have stuffed animals around my room.  I don't give a crap

[Felix]

Litter the floor with beer cans, porn and tools.

This made me lol.
I want to start answering unrelated questions with this statement.

[cindianna_jones]

Highly off-topic..... 

Ohhh!!!! I was (still am) an astronomy maniac. What was the poster? I had two up - The Pleiades (NGC1432) and M42 by David Malin taken at the AAT.

I still have a framed luminous constellations 1000 piece jigsaw hanging up.

Beverley

It's a shot of the Ophiuchus Rho region by someone well known. I'd tell you more if this thread were in the just for us section.

Cindi

[Mr.Rainey]

This made me lol.
I want to start answering unrelated questions with this statement.

Do it.

And for the record all my beer cans are in the recycle, porn in my drawer and tools are all over the floor. So thats 1 out of 3.

[skakid]

I was actually just thinking about this the other day and realized that my room would look like a boys room if it were painted a different color. When we moved into the house I'm in now I asked my mom to paint my room green and when I came home from school it was already being painted lime green. I was so disappointed. Other than that, my room just represents me I guess. I have lots of posters on my walls of bands, famous skiers, and some art I've done and I have my guitars, bass, and amp against a wall and my stereo against another.

[anibioman]

to those saying i should just keep the stuff i like in my room i do im just not sur what to do with the things i have no opinion on like curtains rugs furnatur i dont really have an opinion but i want my room to come off as mor masculine.

im not going to have porn and garbage on my floor or sports stuff or cars because i use the internet for porn and i dont play sports and i dont love cars. im trying to make my room portray the masculine side of my personality.

[Sharky]

For furniture I have the Malm stuff from Ikea in medium brown.
I have the lights attached to the ceiling fan and a pole lamp.
I have room darkening shades
I don't have a rug
I don't know what happened to my sheet I just got the fitted one and it always pops off the bed. They are tan flannel. 
My cover is dark red and plush one side and tan and smooth on the other.

I really need to clean my room. I have boxes and clothes everywhere. And there is a rats nest under my bed.

[Vincent E.S.]

Questions like this kind of confuse me. My room is covered in whatever I throw in there.

At the moment, I have a pewter-colored swirly metal daybed. My sheets are bright blue zebra print and my comforter is black velveteen striped with leopard print.
My walls are a lovely sea foam green.
My bookshelves and dresser are white with various painted accents.
My curtains are black, but I have a glass butterfly hanging from the curtain rod.
My bed is covered in stuffed animals and I have a giant hamper full of more stuffed animals.
My walls contain my artwork, a few posters, about twenty crosses, and a bunch of old puppy calenders.
My room is really messy but I don't leave clothes out.

[Max]

Questions like this kind of confuse me. My room is covered in whatever I throw in there.

I hear you. I have followed this thread for a little while now and am still confused. I am assuming that OP wishes to tap into 'masculine' stereotypes or common design standards, which is all fine. In that case, the others have offered helpful suggestions. Stick with darker colors and earthy tones, if you can. For some reason, those colors have been deemed masculine. No clue why.

However, I would like to pose a different question: what does masculine mean to you? For example, what sort of activities or things make you feel most masculine?

Try to build around that instead. After all, it is your room and it should be a reflection of your personality, aesthetics, and what have you.

[sonic]

Thank you!  I agree with this completely.  You should have your room however you want it.  If you're a guy and you are, then the room will be masculine enough.  Get rid of what makes you uncomfortable in your room and keep what you like.

I still have stuffed animals around my room.  I don't give a crap

This.

Trying too hard to be masculine is more likely to get to get you clocked anyway. Just stick with whatever you're comfortable with.

[Kareil]

I think my room probably screams "gay slob" - the first thing you see is the bed, buried under clothes, so you get one gender clue from those, particularly if I have my camo sheets on.  Looking around to surfaces, and the floor, it doesn't seem to be decorated in any particular manner, stuff is just piled.  I have stalagmites of books, because I have too many to fit on my shelves.  Not that there's any shortage of bookshelves, I just have a bit of a book problem.  But then there's the random dolls and My Little Ponies - not that all bronies are gay - sticking up from between the piles, and vitamin bottles, so there's clearly a feminine influence.  I don't know how it all gets here - I think my place is connected to the Sock Nebula.

[tekla]

gay slob - that's pretty close to an oxymoron.  While I'm sure there are such creatures, I've never been in the home or apartment of any.

[Jayne]

I'm going in the opposite direction, i'd always treid to keep my room looking masculine to hide the truth from visitors.

I've boxed up 80+ transformers that I need to find a good home for, I have 1 shelf devoted to videogame figures, 1 shelf of dragons, 1 shelf of TV sci-fi figures, 1 shelf of Aliens & predators & a display cabinet & 1 shelf of original Star Wars figures.
Most of this will go over the next few years, i'm not sure if I will be able to part with everything but i'll try.

A few tips:

Only tidy up once the floor is hidden by clothes/ videogame cases etc.

Books, DVD's & videogames MUST be in alphabetical order if they aren't scattered on the floor.

Drawers are only to be used to store useless junk, NOT clothes

Throw away clothes hangers, you don't need them!

Keep at least one dirty plate in your room, if it has mould then this gives you bonus masculine points

Best of luck

[tekla]

 - Less is more.  Men tend to have less stuff, less 'clutter', fewer 'decorative items', fewer photos of family, friends and others.  It also tends to straight, plain and angular (like Danish Modern) and less like Colonial American or Victorian furniture.

-  Nothing is more masculine than having the bottom half of your walls done in dark wood paneling with Hunter Green paint on the walls above.