Mysterious Glow

Lot’s of guys have ‘man caves’ which are usually a room or garage that the wife allows the man to decorate any way they want. Guys usually do sports memorabilia and have a pool table if they have the room. If they’re geeky, they do Star Wars.

That’s what normal people do with their garages, but I’m thinking about making my upstairs office, my so-called ‘man cave’, into an interior design homage to the movie, The Abominable Dr. Phibes.

Here is a clip of the main ballroom with Dr. Phibes’ glamourous little helper, Vulnavia. Quick aside: I suspect that Vulnavia is actually a clockwork creation, much like Dr. Phibes’ band of robot musicians. She doesn’t talk and has no human compunctions about participating in Dr. Phibes’ ghoulish revenge schemes. There is something very, very wrong with Vulnavia.

I’m going to have to move some furniture around, including a few large bookcases, but I think I can re-create the feel of this, even though my office is much smaller than Phibe’s master ballroom. With a few screen shots I think can make a template to paint the Art Deco/ Vienna Secession interiors. I told my wife that I expect her to dress up as Vulnavia at least once a month while I put on a Phibes costume. I don’t have a large, futuristic looking pipe organ, but with some plexi-glass next to my computer, I think can still pay homage to this. Those are some funky color schemes, and that is the only real deal-breaker.

After I thought of this idea, I Googled Dr. Phibes Interior Design and someone has already done this. Probably much better than I could do. This person has decorated her office with this very theme. Caution: Parts of her website are NSFW, but this page is ok. If one had not seen the movie, the giant unicorn statue, the cage full of stuffed animal bats, etc, would not make sense.