My new Barcade - "Amazing Games and Bar", opening Memorial Day Weekend 2012
I'm currently engaged in gutting part of my walk-out basement to put in a Barcade. My old house's Barcade was cool but I didn't have a lot to work with. The new one starts out about the same square footage as the old one, but I decided that wasn't going to be enough. I got the wife to sign off on annexing about 70 more square feet in front of the stairway, so I can have a nice entry-way.
So far, we've got the old drywall down (graffiti'd to hell by the previous owners) and additional wall studs around the remainder of the unfinished section. We moved the doorway back a few feet to accommodate the entrance to the utilities room and a storage room - these will be work and storage areas. We knocked out the original wall for the unfinished room and backed it up as seen in the first photo. This will be the back wall of the bar.
Photo 2 is of the storage area, Photo 3 is of the utilities room. Lots of "wasted" space in there, due to the furnaces being situated in the center of the room.
Photo 4 is from the back of the bar wall looking out into the Barcade room. Photo 5 is facing back towards the bar. There was a half-bath under the stairs on the left - we removed it and tore out the walls to make a walkway. The front of the bar will be about where the compressor is, so you'd walk around a wall to get to the back of the bar. Front bar is 10', back bar about 13'. The door for the bathroom remains, so there's two entrances to the Barcade.
I'm currently engaged in gutting part of my walk-out basement to put in a Barcade. My old house's Barcade was cool but I didn't have a lot to work with. The new one starts out about the same square footage as the old one, but I decided that wasn't going to be enough. I got the wife to sign off on annexing about 70 more square feet in front of the stairway, so I can have a nice entry-way.
So far, we've got the old drywall down (graffiti'd to hell by the previous owners) and additional wall studs around the remainder of the unfinished section. We moved the doorway back a few feet to accommodate the entrance to the utilities room and a storage room - these will be work and storage areas. We knocked out the original wall for the unfinished room and backed it up as seen in the first photo. This will be the back wall of the bar.
Photo 2 is of the storage area, Photo 3 is of the utilities room. Lots of "wasted" space in there, due to the furnaces being situated in the center of the room.
Photo 4 is from the back of the bar wall looking out into the Barcade room. Photo 5 is facing back towards the bar. There was a half-bath under the stairs on the left - we removed it and tore out the walls to make a walkway. The front of the bar will be about where the compressor is, so you'd walk around a wall to get to the back of the bar. Front bar is 10', back bar about 13'. The door for the bathroom remains, so there's two entrances to the Barcade.



