I've been working on this for the last year and a few months, and I've finally gotten to a point where I'm proud to show off some pics. It's my tiny (10x14) outbuilding gameroom, that I've named "The Elbow Room Arcade". See, because there's a lack of elbow room in such a small arcade, see?
Going with the "elbow" theme, I've used plumbing elbows, painted Super Mario green, in various places, and my logo uses a plumbing elbow. Here's a shot of my yard last summer, when this was all just an image in my head -
I did all the work myself, with help from a few freinds. Here's how the same spot looks today -
Okay, okay, here's the important part - the inside! I went with a faux brick paneling that I bought at Lowes. The ceiling is painted flat black, and I have two 4' black lights. The concrete floor was stained with a concrete stain, and I "spattered" various colors of flourescent paint around the floor before putting on a clear topcoat. I also have a cheap black 5x7 rug from Wal-Mart on the floor, and I spattered the paint on it as well, for a ghetto black light carpet.
This is my main power switch - I have two of the switches wired to turn on all of the outlets that the cabs are plugged into, and the other two switches turn on the black lights and my Pac neon and Kong Off marquee.
More pics to come...
I did all the work myself, with help from a few freinds. Here's how the same spot looks today -
Okay, okay, here's the important part - the inside! I went with a faux brick paneling that I bought at Lowes. The ceiling is painted flat black, and I have two 4' black lights. The concrete floor was stained with a concrete stain, and I "spattered" various colors of flourescent paint around the floor before putting on a clear topcoat. I also have a cheap black 5x7 rug from Wal-Mart on the floor, and I spattered the paint on it as well, for a ghetto black light carpet.
This is my main power switch - I have two of the switches wired to turn on all of the outlets that the cabs are plugged into, and the other two switches turn on the black lights and my Pac neon and Kong Off marquee.
More pics to come...

