My gameroom and bar - WIP pix - new pix 1-31-06

[saint]

So the basement finishing job is almost finished, carpet got laid today. Next is final touchup, then decorating and furnishing. I can't wait to get it all online. Here's a few pix...

Game room carpet under black light (temporary black light, permanent black light fixtures in ceiling not yet mounted):



Game room paint job under regular lighting (on a dimmer):



A shot of the bar and dragon lamp looking into the game room. The opening is really a set of double-sliding-pocket doors so the game room can be completely closed off:



My poor abused air hockey table earlier in the construction:



Bar early in construction:



Fun stuff!

--- saint

[missioncontrol]

good choice on the carpet

very nice, so when are you sending out our invites 

[pointdablame]

Looking really nice.  Good choice with the carpet, I really like the way it looks.

And that bar is AWESOME.  Great job.

[Harpal]

i love the bar, would love to see it once it is all finished also i love that carpet....
 how much was it, and where abouts was it purchase......

[cw]

i feel another book coming...... byoar           build your own arcade room

[slycrel]

Grats saint, that's great!

Wish I could talk my wife into letting me do something like that next year when we finish our basement.  =)

I think you chose well on the carpet.

[Necro]

...god I cant wait to get a house.  This entire 'getting a Ph.D.' thing is seriously delaying my home theatre/bar/gameroom building.

[markrvp]

That's really, really nice Saint.  Did you have a local carpet company order the carpet for you or did you order it yourself and have someone install it?

[Bones]

That looks really nice. Hope to see more pics before it is complete.

If I am correct, in buying Project Arcade, some of my finances were exchanged for a small part of that room. You don't have to thank me publically, a PM will be fine.

[Havok]

Additionally, since I purchased the book as well, this gives me the right to come over when it is finished and play your games. I only bought one copy, so I will not drink your beer. However, if I do decide to come over, I may purchase another so said beer will indeed be "on the house."

[Ed_McCarron]

If I am correct, in buying Project Arcade, some of my finances were exchanged for a small part of that room.

If he got the standard percentage, in the 4th pic, the 3rd drywall screw from the top left has your name on it.

LOVE the carpet.  Looks straight out of the roller rink arcade I frequented in the 80s.  Do you find the blacklight bothers peoples eyes if used as a primary light source???

I seriously need to move to a house with a real basement.

[Level42]

Fantastic carpet ! Where to get it ? Do they send overseas ??

Looks very good ! Keep us posted

[bb040]

wish i had a basement yours look very nice ....my bar is only 14x20.....very cramp at times

[saint]

More pictures...


Game room, lights on, black lights off. Air hockey, Gyruss, Crystal Castles, and Double Donkey Kong in place so far. Still missing overhead fluorescent black light fixtures.


Same angle, lights off, temporary black light fixtures on.


Looking at bar after Christmas party. Items of note - dragon lamp, lava lamp, and closed doors leading into arcade.


Close up of barstools. $128 from Lowe's, item # 5407. You can't find it online, you have to luck out in finding them at the store. Not all stores carry them, and they're non-restock meaning they aren't ordering any more. Fairly comfortable, felt/suede leather type of seat, swivel, and much cheaper than the $1000 barstools I first liked! We have 6 comfortably spaced around the bar, although the spot under the dragon lamp is kind of the short end of the stick.


From the living room/tv room area looking back into the bar area and game room doors.

Lesse.... carpeting came from http://www.kidcarpet.com/ - it's "Space Voyage" and as you can see it looks better live than the horrible picture they have. 12' x 26' cost us $783, and it was like another $225 or so to install including pad, so about $1000 in the carpet for just that room. Ouchie on the price but worth it I think. We had the company that did the rest of the carpet installation (sub-contracted through Lowe's where we bought the rest of the carpet) do the game room as well.

Ed is right, each of you who purchased Project Arcade have a drywall screw imbedded with your name on it - thanks!

Cheers!

--- saint

[Bones]

That's a sweet looking set-up.

I want to say something negative about the stools but I will wait for somebody else to approach the subject and then jump on their bandwagon. 

[DrewKaree]

Yer killin' me smallz!  I wanna see an updated pic with that gaudy white outlet cover on that nicely trimmed out post swapped out with something darker

I really like the drop ceiling (like that style and look).  For some reason, those segmented tiles look better to me than the big chunky ones, nice choice to me. 

Did you do all that work, or did you farm it out?  I wanted to ask if that's tile on the coutnertop of the bar and if you could take a better pic of it.  Looks like nice work! 

Sweet looking gameroom too!  It's gotta be nice having a gameroom come wrapped with a house around it

[DrewKaree]

Oh, Bones how 'bout this. 

Nice frilly chairs, nancy!

Throw down Bones! 

Oh, hey....seeing as how you've referenced that dragon lamp a few times now, I think we ALL know you like the thing and are doing the backhanded-bragging-about-it thing, so take us a better pic of that so we can see it mo betta.

And all you hosers got screwed.  The proceeds from MY purchases bought the lightbulb in the dragon!  I think I'll also take credit for the non-working blacklight fixtures too, at least until they work

[pointdablame]

Ed is right, each of you who purchased Project Arcade have a drywall screw imbedded with your name on it - thanks!

Cheers!

--- saint

Does that mean we can come and visit our drywall screw whenever we want? 


Looks really great Saint.  I really like the look of that bar.  And drew is right, that drop ceiling looks good in that room.  Good choice.

Wait... did I just say Drew was right....

[Santoro]

I love it, congrats.

[DrewKaree]

And drew is right, that drop ceiling looks good in that room.  Good choice.

Wait... did I just say Drew was right....

Too late, sucker   I've got the proof now! 

Saint, are the blacklight fixtures gonna be a separate switch so you can run regular lighting off one circuit and blacklight off another?  I think that's what I was deciphering from some information I read here, but I mighta just been having a brain fart.

[spriggy]

Awesome work Saint!

Have you decided what you'll use, if anything, to decorate some of the wall space??  ie mounted arcade posters/flyers or a wall mounted lcd screen to play your 80's music video clips! 

[missioncontrol]

looks nice......


now let's see some more pictures of them games.....rumor has it that's where my missing buttons are 

[DrewKaree]

looks nice......


now let's see some more pictures of them games.....rumor has it that's where my missing buttons are 

PSSSST.....eckchay the agondray ightlay!

[missioncontrol]

oh-tay

[saint]

Saint, are the blacklight fixtures gonna be a separate switch so you can run regular lighting off one circuit and blacklight off another?

Yes! I was worried about too much black light bothering people. There are 6 can lights with regular lighting on a dimmer switch for varying levels of regular light, and the two fluorescent fixtures are on an on/off switch (total of 8 black light tubes). I'm suspicious I may reduce that to 4 total tubes when I see how it looks, it may be a bit much.

Have you decided what you'll use, if anything, to decorate some of the wall space??  ie mounted arcade posters/flyers or a wall mounted lcd screen to play your 80's music video clips!

Oh yeah, I've got a few ideas/plans already. I have a bunch of arcade artwork that's going to be going up, at least potentially. I have a Dragon's Lair and a Space Ace full sized movie style poster, I have a framed Machine Bride of Pinbot backglass, a variety of marquees and such, the Blik Space-Invaders decals, and invisible black-light reactive paint from clearneon.com (check out the demo picture). The paint is invisible with regular lighting, shows up with black lighting.  I'll also be doing a few other things but I'm going to wait to present those, it may take me a while to get to it.

Oh, and pictures:

Dragon Light close-up.

My wife hauled that back from a trip to Mexico. Still have to find the globe that goes with it over the light.

Bar counter top.


It's a black granite tile with flecks of other colors in it, looks very cool in person.

Cheers!

--- saint

[unclet]

Here is the perfect table to fit under your dragon lamp:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Dragon-Table_W0QQitemZ4429975453QQcategoryZ38207QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


They are selling two of them ... maybe you could get a deal on buying both .....

[ChadTower]

Wow.  I've been planning exactly the same thing out for so long... but have absolutely no carpentry skills.  Now I feel all inadequate and Liberal.

Seriously, I have the space for it in my basement but have no idea where to start other than finding someone to do it for me and writing out a blank check for funds I don't have.

[saint]

Err... that's what I did. Took out a home equity line of credit and started writing checks

[ChadTower]

How much are you into it so far, then, if I may ask?  Feel free to tell me to get bent on this one... just curious, since I actually am working on a home equity line application this week.

[saint]

Well... it went about double what I naively originally thought we'd have to spend.

How much are you into it so far, then, if I may ask?  Feel free to tell me to get bent on this one... just curious, since I actually am working on a home equity line application this week.

[Zakk]

Man it's sweet.  Just screaming for a Chexx bubble hockey though 

That granite looks good, I was just in HD looking at some, very nice job with it. 

[missioncontrol]

I request a picture of my drywall srew

[DrewKaree]

I request a picture of my drywall srew

Yours is in the bathroom.  In the top tank

[saint]

Here tis!

I request a picture of my drywall srew

[pointdablame]

man, it must have taken you a while to write on all of those screws 

[ChadTower]

Well... it went about double what I naively originally thought we'd have to spend.

Have to or chose to?  Was it upgrades or unforeseen requirements?

And would I expect $5k?  $10k?  $15k?  Anyone can answer this, I have no idea what a basic slab concrete with no water issues basement finishing job should cost.

[skippy]

Chad, Shouldn't be too expensive to throw some drywall up.  I did half my basement on my new house about 600 sq ft of space for about 1500 total.  Walls and ceiling.  Saint said he spent a g on carpet for that small space.  You Know a bar that pretty is gonna run into some change.  Think about how long your gonna be in the house before dropping serious change.  I put about 10k into the last basement and then the wife decided we had to build a new one.  Of course I didn't realize near that much out of it when I sold.

[walls83]

I put about 10k into the last basement and then the wife decided we had to build a new one.  Of course I didn't realize near that much out of it when I sold.

Thats what happend to me last year.  Just finished everything, carpet, new walls, built a new bar.  Hand painted stenciling on the walls(looked sweet).  and about 2 weeks after it was done she wanted a new house.  Now she wont let me do that again in the basement. 

[ChadTower]

I started a thread in EE so that we can give Saint his thread back... but I have no intention of leaving this house.

[Knievel]

Very cool Saint. My local glow-bowling alley has that carpet, looks amazing under the black lights.