Basement Poles? What have you done to make them awesome

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Basement Poles? What have you done to make them awesome

Poles suck, what have you done to make them cool?

  • Make them tech looking like something out of Star Trek?
  • Construction Theme? Yellow and Black Diagonal Stripes?
  • Wrap them in wood?
  • Anything else?

I think that painting then dark or a blending in color would be bad (someone might walk into it)

I have 7 running down the mid-line of my house.
 
I have 2 6x6 posts in my game room building. They end up being in spots that make it easy to line games up right next to them, so they're not in the middle of an aisle or anything. I'm planning to paint them when I paint my walls (medium/dark blue), but this is an interesting topic still.
 
Just cut them out with a sawsall or portaband, I AM serious you CAN do this they are NOT needed.
 
They are not done in the pic as you can see but heres a older photos of ours. I framed them with wood, then drywall, then those sticky tiles for the floor and did the corners with painted corner wood.

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Here's what mine looked like when I bought the house, I thought it looked great so I left it as is.
 

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I wrapped some composite aluminium around mine, mailny because I get it for free but it turned out okay I guess.....never really finished it :(
 

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I dont have any pictures of what i did, and since i moved, i no longer have the poles to deal with. But what i did was used 1x6 to make a box around them, then we took pictures that we had from all the parties and get togethers and taped the pictures on the 1x6 to fill up the space, some whole pictures, some collages. once it was filled, i placed plexiglass over the whole thing, then to finish it off i put corner trim to hide all the seams of the plexi, it was really neat
 
Poles suck, what have you done to make them cool?

Try NOT having a damn basement! That sucks!

When I had a basement the poles I had were built into walls so you couldnt see them.

Matt
 
How bout centering game swastika's or game islands around them. You know. Where you put the back of one to the side of another all the way around the pole. With the right positioning, you can fit 4 games around each pole. Helps hide the poles and can give you more room.
 
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