So I have been prodded enough, mostly by Ack, to show me building my gameroom. Now this is going to be updated very randomly (since I have a couple other high profile projects going on), but I figured it is easiest to get feedback on one topic instead of several different topics. But since both my wife and I are gamers, this is less of a gameroom, more of a geekhouse.
Background:
My wife and I bought our house earlier this year and we are slowly modifying it to be more unique. While the house is almost perfect for us, I had to concede the extra bedroom to the wife for craft work (well partially concede since my craft stuff will be in there aswell), it means I did not have a dedicated place for gaming with a door. Our basement is one big room in a backward E, with a wet bar and half bath on the garage side, a fireplace on the other, and an Emergency room under the steps. The garage is for my workshop and a soundstage. So my gaming area will be on the fireplace side with room high mirrors (roughly 15x20).
So what will be updated here, well most everything about the house that is geek/gaming related. We have lots of plans, but haven’t moved on any of them so here is a list so yall can see what we are planning on doing, and so we can keep track of them digitally.
Now why did I decide to do it this way, what is my angle? The truth of the matter is that over the past decade I have read many blog posts about how people built their gamerooms or game basements, and others about how they built their gardens or backyard theaters. Those sites and topics gave me so many great ideas and really let me see how other people work through their problems. So I thought the best way for me to “give back” for lack of a better phrase, is to do something like this. So some of this will not be directly gaming related, but all of it should be interesting to atleast to someone out there. Now if you don’t like the concept for the update, that’s fine, theres dozens of other subforums, and thousands of other topics. Feel free to question anything I post about, that’s fine. Even if you think it is a stupid question, it is better to get an answer than to just sit and wonder.
That said, some of these projects will be specific to our needs and will not really be applicable to others – ie I do not believe many of you are going to be figuring out how to fit seven or eight pcs in your gameroom, or where to put an R2D2 store cooler. But then again, those odd issues usually make reading things more interesting.
List of Completed projects
Kitchen Stools
Shelving
Cathedral Radio
TV Stand
Wall art
Sound System
Computer Area
Retrogaming area/cart - updated to MAME Cab
PC Radio Tower case
Raised Beds