My company provided furniture for two ManCave TV shows.
[The name of my company has been left out of this response due to Quora’s spam policy.]
ManCave came to my company because of their need for a very large sectional that would fit down a very narrow staircase.
That is my company’s specialty, Furniture for Small Spaces and Tight Places.
For the first show we provided a fifteen seat sectional measuring 17 ft. x 17 ft. that could fit down a 24″ width staircase.
The photo above shows a similar (but smaller) sectional like the one that fit down the 24″ width staircase for the ManCave show.
It took more than a year for each show to air after the filming. The second show was taped before the first one aired.
- In hindsight it was a big mistake to participate either time.
- Prior to the shows we were told that we would be donating the furniture in return for widespread public exposure on this popular TV show.
In the first case our furniture was on air for all of 10 seconds and was not identified except in the ending credits.
- These end credits scrolled past so quickly that most of the people I was watching with missed it completely.
The second case was worse.
- We did get more exposure in the second show. They actually mentioned the name of our company during the few seconds that our couch was on air.
Then came the disaster.
- The homeowners had a second couch that they had not wanted to replace for sentimental reasons, even though it was in terrible shape.
- One of the hosts bumped against that couch and it literally fell apart. The back collapsed. The hosts then spent nearly 10 minutes of the show talking about that couch and what a piece of garbage it was.
- Since they had just briefly mentioned my couch a short time before, anybody watching probably assumed that the couch that fell apart was ours.
In the 10 years since the shows aired, we have never heard from anyone who saw our furniture on ManCave.
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