What is the Troll Cave?

The Troll Cave is the current name for my home studio. Why?

When my wife and I did a first walk-through on our house, we were told the the house was no longer occupied. All rooms on the main floor were bare. When we went downstairs, there was a strange locked door with muffled noise coming from it. This concerned us (and our Real Estate Agent) more than a little bit (especially with the darkness of the basement we were nearly blind down there).

We eventually knocked on the door and discovered a dark, dingy room, lit by 2 40 Watt bulbs and a tiny window, and an equally dingy man living in this single room, cooking on a hot plate and watching game shows on TV. He was a low-rent lodger living in this single basement room, and was told he could stay until the house was sold. The whole situation reminded us of a troll living under a bridge, so we started referring to him as the troll. Naturally, his room was the Troll Cave.

We ended up buying the house and gutted & remodeled the basement. My home office/studio/man cave is completely within the confines of what used to be the Troll Cave, so it seemed a fitting tribute to adopt that name.