how can i masculinize my room ive gotten rid of all the feminine things but its still rather androgynous looking.
Leave dirty underwear on the ground, let it get unorganized, messy, and slobbish, let it be boring, hang up some band t-shirts, put up some posters of girls, and never ever make your bed :D Bonus points if your blanket is all stained, and even more bonus points if you don't have sheets.
Sorry. Couldn't resist. :D You can skip the t-shirts and posters. ;)
Your room can look like whatever you want it to, to be honest. If you want to go stereotypical, that's fine, but I don't think anyone will judge you based on what your room looks like. And... if they do, then they're weird. ;D
I sort of remember this from an old thread of how to feminise your room? Put your boyfriend in bed with you.
Probably work much the same for a guy, put your girl in bed with you.
:embarrassed:
get posters from spencers lol of either epic dude'ly movies, or hot chicks
get a dart board?
put a black, or dark drapery over the window
get a raggy but comfortable old bedspread
decorate with mostly dark or dull colors
I love man cave kinda rooms, I used to kinda have one but I moved in with my boyfriend and he has nice things lol, but I suppose it still looks masculine because of whats in it
I guess just keep masculine things in your room, and it will look masculine. My older brother had to live in a pale yellow room with wallpaper of stuffed animals on the border and it still looked like a guys room.
Duct tape wall art.
No, seriously. Do it.
Quote from: Kelly J. P. on January 18, 2012, 02:45:57 AM
Leave dirty underwear on the ground, let it get unorganized, messy, and slobbish, let it be boring, hang up some band t-shirts, put up some posters of girls, and never ever make your bed :D Bonus points if your blanket is all stained, and even more bonus points if you don't have sheets.
Sounds like my room at its worst.
I have dark furniture in my room cause I like it. I have clean clothes on the floor and the dirty ones in the basket. Backwards right? My bed is only made if a special someone is going to stay the nite. I have camo flannel sheets on the bed now too. I have nothing on my walls but there is nothing on the walls anywhere in my apartment.
Turn it into a man cave with video game consoles laying everywhere, a gaming chair, posters of UFC fighters and women, smart alex remarks etc and fit it with some light up cool electronic stuff. Spencers has a lot of cool man items there you can look for
Hahaha, oh wow you guys and gals all sound so neet compared to me! :P My room is a mess, I have a floordrobe because I can't get to my wardrobe because I have a floordrobe because I can't...
I have massive subwoofers in the middle of my room angled perfectly so the sound crosses at my bed, and cables running all over the floor. I don't have any places to put things since every available surface is taken up by fish tank, so everything is spilling out of drawers and cupboard doors. :P I have three big posters in my room, and each has a wall. Two are of men and one is of a grim reaper. :P
Surprisingly I wouldn't say my room ever looks femme, even when it's clean. But I think that's because aside from all of the mess it's actually very minimal. My room has clothes, games and tanks, that's it. :P I would have to say that's my biggest tip; cut back to only what you need being on display.
Nothing in my house implies either one gender or the other. Great interior design does not care about gender roles.
QuoteMinimise - no clutter - get rid of all ornamental stuff. Lay stuff out in a grid - straight lines everywhere.
My first reaction was lol rooms don't have gender, but on further thought I agree with this part. Girls are swirls and curves, boys are lines and angles, and I can see how that would show in a room.
My bedroom is also a living room, and is shared with a little girl, so it sends a jumble of signals.
Most of the boys I've known were more into music than most of the girls I've known, and I tend to associate stereos and equipment and instruments with maleness.
I'm looking around, and this is really an interesting question.
Btw hey Bane, a thousand thanks for the word 'floordrobe.' ;D
Quote from: Felix on January 18, 2012, 04:45:50 PMBtw hey Bane, a thousand thanks for the word 'floordrobe.' ;D
-bows with a flourish-
You're very welcome. ;D
:laugh: thanks for the suggestions i need to take the curtains of my window there to proper. my other window has a blanket covering it wich i think is good. i wish i had dark wood furniture (not going to change that) its currently a light wood convention in here. i think i need to get rid of my ottoman and forget the word ottoman... also some dark paint would be better its pastel blue right now. i was thinking a burgundy or wine color it will go nice with all the blue stuff in my room. also i think i need a more masculine tissue box, why is it that all tissue boxes are pastel or covered in flower patterns?
Quote from: anibioman on January 18, 2012, 04:57:10 PMalso i think i need a more masculine tissue box, why is it that all tissue boxes are pastel or covered in flower patterns?
Haha. I've got a wooden tissue box (you put the actual box of tissues underneath it) with a cardinal sitting on a snow-covered evergreen branch painted on it. Doesn't sound all that manly, but I won it in a prison raffle and it was made by one of the (male) inmates in the prison woodshop, so it's got an awesome story attached, at least.
Get a rug. A persian rug man, it really ties the room together. :P
you could get some 1:18th scale model cars, a cool car poster or two, maybe even a lava lamp in traditionally male colors. if you're into sports, like football, get some things that represent your favorite team. Video game memorabilia can be good too. I have a statue of Darth Malgus from Star Wars: The Old Republic, a Battarang from Gotham Asylum, and a Spartan helmet from Halo 3.
Well, the fastest way to masculinize a room is to throw ->-bleeped-<- everywhere and be a pig. It's fun until you have to find something. Then it sucks.
Guys room colors are just like guy colors for everything - greys, dark blues, navys, blacks... muted, very non-dramatic colors. Guys rooms are dark.
Put up like a Grateful Dead poster or a Limp Bizkit or something rockish like that. Nickelback works.
Also- Find a poster of a victoria's secret model or a playboy playmate and put her up over your bed.
Once again, I cannot emphasize this enough - make it look like a tornado blew into town... flannel shirts on the floor, cum-soaked underwear, dirty magazines, a video game controller, a bag of potato chips that expired like a year ago... :laugh:
Quote from: anibioman on January 18, 2012, 04:57:10 PM
:laugh: thanks for the suggestions i need to take the curtains of my window there to proper. my other window has a blanket covering it wich i think is good. i wish i had dark wood furniture (not going to change that) its currently a light wood convention in here. i think i need to get rid of my ottoman and forget the word ottoman... also some dark paint would be better its pastel blue right now. i was thinking a burgundy or wine color it will go nice with all the blue stuff in my room. also i think i need a more masculine tissue box, why is it that all tissue boxes are pastel or covered in flower patterns?
But ottoman has the word MAN in it! :D I only associate ottomans with Dick Van Dyke, honestly.
And you could solve the tissue box problem by just keeping a roll of toilet paper around. That's what I do.
I don't think messy is what you have to do, but do tie the the room together with the theme of clutter, but don't over do it,
most single guys I know just have what they like in the room with them, it could be a stereo system, or a big TV with an Xbox under it, or scooter parts...
if they have nothing they like doing that uses items, then the room is mostly empty.
every guy I know that is not single lets the girlfriend decorate it when they move in together (they do this by just not caring about the looks at all).
Quote from: Felix on January 18, 2012, 05:52:58 PM
But ottoman has the word MAN in it! :D I only associate ottomans with Dick Van Dyke, honestly.
And you could solve the tissue box problem by just keeping a roll of toilet paper around. That's what I do.
And Otto is a german guy's name :D
Hey, I just moved into my new place a few months ago so I got to redecorate my room. It's not even done as I still need shelves, but I'm pretty proud of my "dude" room :) lol. I've got silver walls with black door/window frames and baseboards, black futon (no bed) with a set of red sheets and a set of black, black shag rug, flat screen on the wall, HOLLYWEED poster, and a LOVE poster made of guns and stuff, also a daily maxim girl calender on my desk and another monthly hot girl calender on my wall, a cool tatted up marilyn monroe print, New York and Hollywood skyline decals on the wall, free weights barely visible under my futon, my GoodWood necklaces are on display on my wall too, black window curtains, snowboard and skateboard in the corner, and a nice big bong on my desk :). I'm also planning on building a loft bed over my futon cause the futon isn't always so comfy. I think that's pretty much it. But seriously, dude, just be you. It's your room and you should fill it with things you like or else you won't be happy hanging out there.
Quote from: Beverley on January 18, 2012, 10:49:33 AM
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.
Litter the floor with beer cans, porn and tools.
Quote from: Mr.Rainey on January 19, 2012, 04:08:38 AM
Litter the floor with beer cans, porn and tools.
He said
BEDROOM, not the garage! :P
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 :P), 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 :P
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
Quote from: anibioman on January 18, 2012, 02:33:03 AM
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
If you inject it with testosterone that should masculinise your room :D
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.
Quote from: Assoluta on January 19, 2012, 08:28:38 AM
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
Quote from: Mr.Rainey on January 19, 2012, 04:08:38 AM
Litter the floor with beer cans, porn and tools.
This made me lol. :laugh:
I want to start answering unrelated questions with this statement.
Quote from: Beverley on January 19, 2012, 08:10:49 AM
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
Quote from: Felix on January 19, 2012, 03:38:43 PM
This made me lol. :laugh:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Quote from: Vincent E.S. on January 22, 2012, 12:55:35 AM
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.
Quote from: Squirrel698 on January 19, 2012, 08:54:03 AM
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.
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.
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.
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
- 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.
This may sound a little weird but I can tell I'm in a guy's room by the smell. I'm not talking stench. I'm talking man smell, pheremones, deoderant.... whatever a man smells like. It is significantly different. I don't know how to tell you how to do that.
Cindi
Don't change the sheets for a month. Don't vacuum, ensure the bedclothes don't match the curtains, pile your dresser with all kinds of crap (same with the top drawer, all men have a drawer full of miscellanea. A basic pig sty should do!
My take on it is it doesn't have to be messy or smelly to be masculine, it should just be YOU and reflect your interests. In my apartment, I go for a sort of old-fashioned gentlemen's club-meets-Ivy League frat house kind of look. Lots of dark wood bureaus and furniture, dark wooden blinds on the windows, big comfy couch, gloomy looking old prints on the walls, etc. One corner has a big TV with lots of music electronics, gaming accessories, and so on. Weights and evidence of working out lying about, and of course, the special bong altar!
I suspect some of the fellows like Nygeel (and other Anglophiles out there, like myself) would be quite comfy coming over for a pint!
dose it really matter how maculine or femenine your room is as long as you like it?
I dont find it that important, but if it is then it should be more important it fit you as a person rather than your gender.
I'm really starting to wonder if all of the 'Filthy' and 'Dirty' comments are supposed to be jokes or not (And to the ones who are being serious, I hope you realize that you're basing that off of stereotypes that I find somewhat offensive. Offensive because the meaning under these comments is that all men are pigs)
Granted, some men are dirty, yes...but I have some friends who are girls and their rooms are even messier than mine (Which is saying a lot by the way)
Getting back to the point of the thread though.
I agree with what some of the other posters have said.
Think about what makes you feel more masculine and stick with that.
Also, I'd stay away from mementos of your childhood, unless you were lucky enough to get HotWheels during Christmas.
I know for me, that I have lots of little 'treasures' from when I was a kid, that are all very girly, I got so sick of them being in my room that they're now in a box.
I still have them, but they are only for my eyes to see and no one else's.
I would however suggest sticking with darker colors, since darker colors have always been deemed more masculine. Reds, Blues, Greens, Browns, Blacks, those sort of things. I'd stay away from Pastels or really bright neon colors, unless of course, those fit your personal style.
As for a theme. A lot of guys that I know don't have a theme to their room, they seem to just sort of put anything that they like in there.
This of course, is referring to teenaged guys.
As the ones that I know older than that all seem to be married, and share a room with their wife, and of course, their wife decorates (Because women think that they have this inborn sense of interior decor...which I find BS because there are TONS of successful male interior decorators. Wow, apparently I'm feeling very confrontational today)
Anyway, I'll also mention that I'm looking to change up my room too, and I've been looking at different interior design books, and reference material from online. That could help you too.
Good luck!
all men are pigs
Bothers me too, particularly when what I see is that only little boys who think that mommy is going to clean up after them are pigs. Responsible people know enough to pick up after themselves. Though they are outstanding examples, the guys I know who live like feral dogs, are few.
Quote from: GentlemanRDP on January 25, 2012, 09:47:57 AM
I'm really starting to wonder if all of the 'Filthy' and 'Dirty' comments are supposed to be jokes or not (And to the ones who are being serious, I hope you realize that you're basing that off of stereotypes that I find somewhat offensive. Offensive because the meaning under these comments is that all men are pigs)
Granted, some men are dirty, yes...but I have some friends who are girls and their rooms are even messier than mine (Which is saying a lot by the way)
This isn't meant to be insulting, my comment was partly in jest but based on the majority of men i've known.
Apart from a few men i've known over the years most of my male friends have been very messy, they often keep the rest of the house tidy but most of them used their bedrooms as a dumping ground.
One friends flat was so bad that when I stayed for 6 months my mum refused to visit, his carpet was held together with best wishes & a few prayers, the kitchen was so bad I ate takeaway every day, the end of his hallway was peppered with holes from his indoor archery practice, there was a partly built bike in the attic room (he's stopped working on it because he buit it piece by piece then realised it wouldn't fit down the stairs) & he had a part built bike in the front room.
I can only comment based on my life experience & apologise for any offense caused
Add one of the neon beer signs to your wall! Lol my friend has like a dozen or so different beer signs and poster's in his room or "man cave" as he calls it.
I've always felt like I have a mix of a teenage boy or 5 year old boy's room. Or just a mix. Here's an idea if this helps.
Spiderman poster, Marines stuff everywhere, my xbox for some reason makes me feel masculine, my guitars are out, my rifles and handguns out, old broken skateboard on the wall, my hats are hung on the walls, really neutral bedding, pull up bar in my doorway...it doesn't scream "girly" but I never really thought of if that said "manly" either.
QuoteAs for a theme. A lot of guys that I know don't have a theme to their room, they seem to just sort of put anything that they like in there.
This of course, is referring to teenaged guys.
As the ones that I know older than that all seem to be married, and share a room with their wife, and of course, their wife decorates (Because women think that they have this inborn sense of interior decor...which I find BS because there are TONS of successful male interior decorators. Wow, apparently I'm feeling very confrontational today)
I know more married than unmarried people, and I haven't seen many themed bedrooms outside of housewares catalogues.
Quote from: Felix on January 25, 2012, 08:30:55 PM
I know more married than unmarried people, and I haven't seen many themed bedrooms outside of housewares catalogues.
Me either. I know plenty of married people, I have yet to see a themed room, including my grandmother's, who has the nicest house I have ever been in. As a guy married to a gay guy, our room is just a room; it's not manly or girly. I didn't know rooms could be gendered. As a kid I just had things I liked in my room. That's pretty much the way it is now too. All I care about is everything being neat and clean so I can find stuff when I need to. My house is organized under the same idea; everything has a place and it is full of things that my husband and I like.
I don't count things like game systems, comics or work out equipment as being masculine or feminine. I mean, I have plenty of game systems ranging from a SNES to a PS3, but I have my Harvest Moon game collection (the most manly of games - a farming/life sim) on proud display. I have comic books right next to history texts and books on transsexual experiences and rights. My work out equipment is between my yoga ball and my ball python's tank. I still have stuffed animals on my bed, including my penguin that I have had my whole life and the stuffed Litwick (yes, I have stuffed pokemon and penguins) my husband just bought me for the holidays. I've had my female friends tell me I have the most ordered, well stocked kitchen and spice rack they've ever seen.
I guess what I am saying is, put stuff you like in your space(s). If you like the things, it should feel right to you.
And for the record, I live in an apartment on a college campus. I have been to plenty of male friends in the dorms that I have visited. I have never seen one room even a quarter as messy or disgusting as some of the descriptions of how a guy's room is supposed to look that I have read in this thread. The worst I've seen is chinese takeout boxes that were a few days old, or a dirty shirt or two on the floor. ANd I am talking about guys from about 18-26. Not even my teenage brothers (17, 14, and 13) are even close to that messy.
I found out pretty early on that if I didn't want my mom in my room all I had to do was keep it clean. Much easier than having her find everything. Most everyone I know is anal about tools, and if they are out and about it means the job isn't done yet. If the job is done, they get put away - or else they tend to walk away.
I have - I don't know about 'theme' per se, but my bedroom is very pastel, faces the sun, very bright, light wood, light wood frames and all the framed stuff is very primary/pastel, flowers and fem, mirrors on two walls - cheerful.
My office however, the desk goes round the corner in 3 sections, smoked black glass and black anodized aluminium. The file cabinets are black, and the dressers are dark walnut. About the only bright thing is a chrome storage unit, floor to ceiling. It faces the interior courtyard and it's dark. There are blue LED running lights under the desk, and twinkle lights wrapped in fabric over the window. The posters are all framed in black, tending toward skulls, and stuff in dark colors.
Two very different feelings - in part because of the light and which rooms get it. And in part because I like a dark office.