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Gameroom Designs come in all shapes, sizes, colors and themes. But what is needed to make your design ultimate? There are varying opinions on this topic but in general there are some musts that need to be added to your room before you achieve ultimate status.

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Should Have Personalization

That’s right you don’t need to follow anyone else’s lead when it comes to your own personal design. You can use their ideas of course but ultimately it’s your own creativity that’ll make your room unique.

Basically there are 12 areas you need to touch on to make your game room ultimate. And those are ceiling, flooring, walls, lighting, games, furniture, music, decorations, food and snack storage, beverage storage, TV and bathroom.

Now you may have some other “Must Haves” for a game room design so please add your thoughts, ideas and opinions in the form below where visitors can read your ideas, comment on them and more.

Ceilings

Depending on where you’re creating your family room, rec room or gameroom you may need to add a ceiling especially if it’s in an unfinished basement. There are various ways to go about this, but always keep creativity and out of the box thinking in mind.

Some of your choices are drop down ceiling which is good for taller basements, they hide your plumbing and wires and look nice but can look outdated at times. You can get creative and add colored ceiling tiles or paint them yourself. Also you could get clear sections of tiles to change things up a bit.

Drywall ceilings are the cheapest by far but you’ll need to do some cutting and pasting to hide where the sheets come together. They mount flush for the most part but you’ll need help putting those up as they’re heavy or you can rent a machine that will life them for you from a place like Home Depot.

Black Out and White Out Ceilings are nice and for the most part simply to do. Basically you just paint your whole unfinished basement ceiling in black or white paint, including the wires, pipes, ducts and everything. These can look nice and they’re great for hanging up items, they work especially well in small basements to give you more space or perceived space.

Flooring

Many people don’t give much thought to the flooring of a rec room but they should, it’s another focal point in my opinion. With simple tiles you can come up with some amazing designs, also vinyl floor tiling isn’t too expensive.

Another option is carpeting, but if you plan to have a lot of get-togethers plan on spills, carpet tiling may be better as you can replace squares instead of cutting up pieces where stains occur.

Hard Wood Flooring is for the most part a no-no in basements because of the humidity. If you have a nice humidifier then it may be ok or if your game room is in an above the ground room then no problems, just be careful of scratches that may happen when moving pool tables, juke boxes, pinball machines and other table games.

A cheaper option could be to paint your cement basement floor. Seal it then paint it with special cement paint and then use area rugs in places where kids might play or sitting areas. Again you can get creative with painting by using stencils for family names, favorite sports teams and more.

Walls

Walls can be simple or difficult to finish depending on where your game room is. If you have an unfinished basement and it’s large enough then adding drywall and frames around the room is ok. It’ll give your room that smooth, totally finished look. Just remember that this is a suppossed to be fun room and doing a simple paint job almost always does the trick especially after you hang your game room artwork, neon signs, posters and other wall decor.

The paint job whether on a finished wall or cement walls can be simple yet look amazing. Doing a two-tone looks great. Use a dark color for the top 1 to 2 feet down then use a light color for the rest of the walls. Or do a traditional 36 inches up from the floor your dark color and the top portion your lighter colors. Use your favorite sports team for inspiration or a theme like Asian or Country Western to come up with some great color combinations.

Lighting

Lighting can be really fun and when creating ultimate game room designs you need to use your imagination and see what’s out there.

You can go with simple recessed lighting or track lighting, that works in most rooms. Also you’ll want to consider swag lamps and pub lamps for some atmosphere. Find ones with your favorite sports team logo or drink logo on them for added decoration. And for example if you have an Asian Theme then bamboo lanterns and paper lanterns in various colors or matching your wall colors is a must!

Using lighted palm trees, wall sconces, string lights, party lights, neon lights, black lights and many others types of lights is fun. A combination is the best way to go, just make sure they match the theme you’re going for and not to overdo the lighting. Heck even a disco ball would look awesome in the right theme.

Games

No Kidding. What’s a game room without Great Home Game Room Games? Now this depends on what your like, table games are always fun. For example a pool table, foosball table, air hockey table, shuffleboard game table, ping pong and poker table start the choices. Sometimes you don’t have enough room for more than one and in that case think about a combination game table. They range from 3 in 1 to 15 in 1 game combinations.

A Dart Board is also on the top of my list, especially a multi-player electronic dart board.

Pinball Machines are really fun, try to find a multiplayer game unless you like antique pinball games, multi-player games are usually more fun and more colorful and go perfect in an ultimate game room.

Video Game Systems like Nintendo Wii and Sony Play Station 3 are nice especially if you have teens in the house. Even Play Station 2 is great and you can find them cheap and used games are all around from EBAY to Gamestop.

Also Slot Machines are cool along with Pachinko and Pachislo from Japan make great gameroom games, they can be original and fun!

Lastly Board Games and Party Games are great to have on hand. Games like Taboo and Apples to Apples are always a hit, and a few decks of trivia cards on hand are fun. And make sure to have a couple kids board games too, whether it be candy land or chutes and ladders for an ultimate family room you need a couple on hand.

Furniture

Game Room Furniture can be a lot of fun! From comfortable couches to pub stools and tables to sports bar stools you have your design fun cut out for your. And this is important, you don’t too much furniture to clutter up your game playing space but you need enough to make everyone happy.

Creating a home theater area with a couch is a great start, then add your billiard chairs for watching the game, stools for your pinball machines and bar stools for your portable home bar area. Besides than when it comes to seating it’s not that complicated, just match your theme.

For tables you’ll need a couple pub style tables for people to chat, drink and eat their pizza. A coffee style table for the home theater area and maybe a combination poker/dinner table for everyone else would also serve your room well. It all depends on room, that’s the key when it comes to furniture. If you have to go small then go small but to be ultimate you always need your game playing space!

And one nice game storage cabinet should always be on the list of game room furniture.

Adding Music

This is a Game Room, right? Then you need music. One of my favorite ways to get music into a home game room is the juke box. Whether it’s a Rock Ola from the 1940s, a 45 or CD Juke Box or a new Ipod/Digital Jukebox doesn’t matter. They look great, they’re fun and the best part is that you have a nice selection of music to choose from.

If you’re not a jukebox lover then a simple home stereo may do or maybe even a home theater and media room design setup is better for you than a jukebox or simple home stereo. You need to decide who’ll be using it, who’ll be visiting on party nights and how much you’ll use it.

My second favorite way to add music is with Sirius XM Satellite Radio. You have a large selection of music genres for people of all ages and a cool thing is that some cable companies and the Dish Network offer Sirius XM in their TV packages. All you need to do is set up some speakers, hard wired or wireless speakers and bam you have all the music you need.

Decorations

Wow, how do I break this down? It really depends on your theme and what you’re trying to get out of your room. But for an ultimate game room you’ll at least want a neon sign and neon clock. Don’t forget about a few posters, framed of course. Tin Signs especially vintage or antique are always a plus. Just follow your theme, add what matches using those top game room decoration ideas and your room will be looking awesome. A nice variety of theme related game room decorations can really make your room something special too!

Food and Snack Storage

You need a place to store your game room snacks. A vending machine is always cool especially for an ultimate designed room. Or a simple cabinet space dedicated to snacks is neat too. Of course if you have a bar then behind the bar is probably the best place for snacks.

Also when it comes to food, an antique popcorn machine look great in game rooms also and larger ones have storage areas for popcorn and bags. Remember we’re working on ultimate game room designs! And a refrigerator is good to for frozen or foods that need to be kept fresh and cool.

Beverage Storage

Again a vending machine for drinks is also nice. A portable home bar is great since it can be moved around or even building your own bar would work also. The thing is, to be ultimate you need a place to store your drinks. So you must have a refrigerator whether small or large to store everything, depending on how many people you’ll have over at one time will dictate the size. Of course you need the space for it. But a basement game room without a refrigerator is not ultimate. You always need room for guests who bring drinks over!

TV

A TV is another given for a game room. And how the prices of plasma and LCD TVs drop there’s no excuse. You need it for the big games and for video games when the games get out of hand. The best place to put your TV is on wall mounts or ceiling mounts. Make sure it’s out of the reach of pool sticks and children too. A larger TV would be great for a video game system like Nintendo Wii. It has games both kids and adults love to play so it’s an obvious choice for adding to an ultimate game room. The point here is that TV is a must.

Bathroom

So you have it all, from the ceiling to the flooring and everything in between. But wait, something is missing? It’s the bathroom. If your basement is bathroom ready it’s time to set it up. Imagine poker night and everyone having to go upstairs to use the bathroom, it’s just not right and again it wouldn’t be ultimate by far. So if you have the room and know how, adding a bathroom would be an awesome idea.

More Game Room Ideas

Yes there are literally thousands of ideas out there for creating fun game room designs. And I’ve given you my top must haves to designing an ultimate game room. Did I miss anything important? Do you have some ideas that should be added to the mix?

If so then please head over to our Game Room Ideas page and submit your cool game room ideas and read other visitors submissions.













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