Gameroom painting complete!

[Angry_Radish]

I thought I'd post some pics of my gameroom so far now that I have the paint done.
Took a few days of moving games around and putting up plastic, kind of like one of those sliding tile puzzle games.
Painting a room while stuff is in it is no fun at all but I didn't have anywhere else to put the stuff.
I had 3 gallons of paint mixed "black" at home depot, cleared everything out of the area, plastic'd everything off and started spraying the ceiling joists using my airless sprayer. It went on kind of grey, but I remembered the salesperson telling me it would dry darker. Went upstairs for awhile, came back down a couple hours later and nope! Grey.
Sooo, after another trip to the store I finally got a REAL black on the ceiling and primed the walls. My wife helped out by doing the wall painting while I was at work, that way when I got home we could move the games around and re-plastic the next area.

All in all it's starting to look more like a gameroom, I put up ropelighting around the top of the walls and mounted marquees over that at a 45, the effect is much cooler than in the pictures as I'm terrible with this camera and can't get the exposure right The next step will be carpet, I'm not looking forward to moving EVERYTHING out of the room but I'm thinking I don't have a choice

 

[slac]

nice work! the use of marquees as molding is pretty neat. I've never seen that before.

 

[jar155]

Nice work. Do you just have a string light running behind your marquees? I might to try and do something similar.

 

[Angry_Radish]

Thanks!
Yes, I ran 2 strings of ropelight behind them.
The previous owners ripped out the suspended ceiling before moving due to an HVAC install, but left the edge molding peices around the room. It turns out it was the perfect height to put the marquees on.

 

[stingray2309]

thats a good idea i have a window cut out for my gameroom to look out into the tv / play area i might fit it with a bezel and back light it. thanks for the idea

 

[hucklebuck73]

Now thats is way nice man, great use of the rope lighting and the marquees, also good color. See I am going to go for the dark Grey only cause I love grey...LOL the black looks sweet as well man....Great job and thanks for sharing I think that marquee idea might be shared more then you think...LOL Jake

 

[shardian]

You simply must submit your gameroom to Gameroom Magazine. i love the marquee molding too.

 

[rm]

I agree. That marquee crown moulding is way cool. Great idea. I may have to steal that one.

 

[havok69]

Looks great! You still have the Space Tactics?

 

[mrslo]

Very nice. I have a lot of marquees and was planning on doing the same to my gameroom. I just dont have the time to get to that project.

 

[Angry_Radish]

Thanks for all the great words!
Frankly I'm suprised the room looks like I had it pictured in my head

Havok:
Yep, still have it, 1 board working, one board kinda working (if I hold it at exactly the right spot), I have a bad solder joint or broken trace somewhere, I just need the free 50 hours of looking at it with a magnifying lens to fix it

 

[nash]

Looks nice Radish. Interesting usage of the lanterns. I was going to do an all-black scheme but changed my mind and am still undecided with paint color. I may end up doing some striping or geometrics here or there...I still just really can't decide.

edit: and by the way, very creative marquee idea!

 

[tophatne1]

I was thinking about going with black painted ceiling in my basement also. It'll be cheap and it'll give it a cool look I think.

Was it a real messy job with the sprayer? Did the paint go on and dry nicely on the duct work, wires etc?

How about a picture showing the whole space from one end to another?!

 

[1up]

VERY NICE

 

[Rrcade]

Looks nice, but I'm curious, It looks like there is track on the wall from a drop ceiling...why didn't you just leave the tiles in and paint them?

 

[Rrcade]

I see that's what you put your marquees on.......

 

[Angry_Radish]

Yep, the previous owners removed the entire tile system to install forced air.
Plus with the ceiling black like that it seems like it's higher and I have more headroom

 

[Angry_Radish]

The paint wasn't TOO bad, but it wasn't fun. It stuck fine but you'll need to prime first because the raw wood will suck up the paint. Lay a dropcloth down to catch the falling paint particles (Unless you are installing carpeting), wear a respirator (unless you like coughing up black stuff for a couple days), and don't wear anything you want to keep

The only place I had any drips was on the round ductwork, and that was only because I spent so much time spraying up there trying to get behind it I ended up putting WAY to much paint on the duct itself. I don't really have pics of the entire area as I'm working in one of the corners still building a mini-bar for my soda fountain and fridge

I was thinking about going with black painted ceiling in my basement also. It'll be cheap and it'll give it a cool look I think.

Was it a real messy job with the sprayer? Did the paint go on and dry nicely on the duct work, wires etc?

How about a picture showing the whole space from one end to another?!

 

[tophatne1]

Thanks for the tips. Putting in a bar is always key.
Post some final shots of the gamroom when it's done.

We all appreciate a nice looking gameroom.