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[–] 130 points 2 months ago (33 children)

Bed frames are feminine, put that mattress on the floor. While your at it, get rid of the sheets, bare mattress it up.

Lighting is too fancy, fancy is feminine. Plain flickering bulb is what you want for ambiance.

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  • [–] [S] 141 points 2 months ago (15 children)
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  • [–] 35 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Women hate overhead lighting. We decided at the meeting.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    For the first forty years of my life, I could not understand people (including my mom) who disliked overhead lighting. Now, I would way rather fumble in the dark than have that stuff glaring at me (grudging exception if I am using a knife in the kitchen). It's become a minor source of friction with my husband. I don't understand what changed.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    How can I make my wife hate overhead lighting?

    I hate it more than sand

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    The most satisfactory setup seems to be great indirect and task lighting that is just as easy to turn on and off as the overhead. Requires lighting purchases and maybe installation, and maybe "smart" switches if there aren't switched outlets or other readily accessible places for the controls, which is a barrier. As an intermediate step, a different colored (warmer white) and less bright bulb in the overhead can make it more tolerable.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    You want a bulb? Real men stub their toes in the dark.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I think if it is that terrible bright white kind of bulb, it will be ok. 😉

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    I don’t understand the bed frame. Is it a 2 inch mattress on a platform frame? You’re going to bang your shin on that so hard.

    Also, the bed is blocking the closet doors because, I’m assuming.. closets are for ladies?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    You joke, but that was my setup for years

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    I bet you're manly as fuck

    Edit: also, what's heroine like?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Heroine? Like a female superhero? I uh.....I dunno man. We've already established that I am very manly.

    Then again, Wonder Woman would be a heroine, and she's probably more manly that emo ass Batman!

    Waaaah!!!! Waaaah!!!! My parents died!

    Both of Spidermans parents died. And his uncle ben. And you don't see him being a little emo pussy.

    Well, except in Spiderman 3. But we don't talk about that one.

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  • [–] 60 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Less empty = more thing

    less fem = man thing

    The obvious conclusion here, is a room brimming with dildos

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  • [–] 47 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Add some dildos to the place. Nothing is more manly than thick, juicy dicks. It's sure to be a conversation-starter, too!

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  • [–] 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    What this guy needs is obviously a second giant skull.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago*

    AROO, BROTHER, GET A MF'IN HOG IN THERE. CRANK THAT MF'ER ANY TIME A BROTHER STARTS THINKING UR FEMININE (not that there's anything wrong with expressing femininity).

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago

    waifu pillow and film replica swords mounted to the wall

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    toss everything but the cat and the skull. everything you think of adding to the space, ask yourself 'is this in service of the skull? is this in service of the cat?'

    if neither, don't add it. rinse & repeat until it looks like a Spirit Halloween to address the emptiness of the space (but know now, it won't fix the emptiness of your soul)

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Is this idiot put the bed against the cupboard so he can't get access?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago

    Add some dirty dishes on the floor. A bowl of spaghetti and an empty can of beer is a easy and masculine touch you can use

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    Put a pentagram above the bed and it's done.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I feel like that's getting back to feminine witchy territory.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Well obviously you get rid of the skull. That skull could be male or female. 50/50 removing it decreases femininity of the room.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    obviously a joke. but it's great to see a normal living space on the internet even though it's abnormal in style.

    everywhere i go online i see these pristine hotel or beverly hills living spaces behind the subject of the photo.

    real people have clutter and lack 5k an hour interior designers!

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    Well this guy is definitely trying hard to keep his closet closed, figuratively and physically

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    How do I make this more incel?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Replace the white closet frame and doors with natural wood. Get rid of that skull. Replace it with a taxidermy black bear. Hang a sword above the closet doors. A really goofy looking one from the mall. Unmake the bed. Throw some Cheetos on the floor.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The way you decrease both the emptiness and femininity of this space is to get rid of all the retail mall goth shit, rev up the table saw and make some actual furniture.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    If you're committed to the black and red aesthetic go with ebonized white oak and glazed black cherry. I'd lean toward the American Craftsman/Mission style, stylish within practicality and built to last, and most importantly would look absolutely stupid in distressed chalk paint.

    There's a stereotype that men don't understand bed frames, somebody already in this comment section has posted a bare air mattress on the floor. The other extreme is the fuckateria table on display in the original post. Looks like a futon mat on plywood? Go to a mattress store and buy something that isn't marked down. As for a bed frame, simplicity is the order of the day. No footboard, if you go with a headboard make it functional. Should be low enough to sit down on, a bed you climb up on is college kid shit.

    A taller dresser is more masculine, compared to a woman's dressing table.

    A simple rocking chair is surprisingly useful, serves as a dressing rack.

    You'll probably want three levels of lighting, mood lighting, reading lighting and cleaning lighting. Built-in overhead lights will serve as the latter.

    Avoid any urge to set dress. This isn't a film set, you don't have to intentionally clutter tabletops and shelves with shit. Live a life and things to put there will happen to you. For the love of fuck don't decorate with books you want people to think you read.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    Obviously needs more skulls

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Only girls have giant skulls in their bedrooms. STFU!! And what's with all that black & red? Are you a sissy or something? Real, manly men have daisies & paisley with pastel walls. MAN UP BITCH!!!

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    Leave it as is and land a banging goth chick

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    You need a ceiling fan made out of swords. Nothing is as manly as living under literal spinning death, and the motion will draw onlookers' attention away from the void.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I mean, with the pink looking underglow and black glitter looking duvet cover it does kinda give goth glam 😅

    My real question is why the fuck it looks like the bed is just permanently blocking the closet lol

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Paint the walls with Singularity Black. Cover up the colour of capitalization on human rights.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    The torturing rack in the corner really ties the room together

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Cocks everywhere. After all, what is less feminine than giant raging boners?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)
  • In my experience, a woman's living space is either more cluttered than a man's because she's got 5.37*10^9 bottles in the shower, piles of laundry made of a larger number of smaller garments, and 900 pillows, OR she lives in a film set where nothing can be moved, touched or used. You don't dry your hands on the towels on the towel rack, those are for decoration, if you need to dry your hands go down to the laundry room, open the towel bin, take out a towel, dry your hands, wash-rinse-sanitize-dry-iron-fold and put away the towel, then go about your day.

    Man tidy is "blanket's on the bed, laundry's either put away or in the hamper, the carpet has been vacuumed at some point in the last month, and none of the cologne/deodorant bottles on the dresser are empty."

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Some nice curtains would really pull the room together.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Is this attached to the doom bathroom?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago*

    /srs remove underglow, use plain colored blanket

    Though I can't tell that to OP since I am looking at a repost of a screenshot of likely a repost of a shitpost

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Throw some clothes all over

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Is that a loom in the corner lol

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