Creative Ideas for Decorating a Rec Room
Description: Tips for decorating a family recreation room.
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Q: This will be our game room. I need some fun ideas!
A: I saw a really great episode on HGTV..I think it was Decorating Cents that did a rec room makeover in game room style..I am sure they have it in their archives..I cannot remember everything they did but it turned out very nice. I know they painted the walls and it brightened it up. They decoupaged some cards to the corners of a large table for a big game table. They used dominos on drawer pulls and blew up a monopoly piece on a copier and made a poster...or something like that. You should check it out.
A: I think it depends what your family is into. If you are big tv/movie watchers, a theater theme with big pictures of famous stars, old popcorn ads framed, popcorn ads, a custom tv stand that names your tv look like a movie screen (perhaps a handy relative can do the scroll work?) and movie theater style lighting would be cool. I had a friend who got one of those murals that looks like nature from the Sears catalogue (so tacky normally) and cut it down to do two walls in her bathroom. It was a forest scene and then she decorated so the bath would look like the woods with shelves made out of tree fungi, a stick towel bar, of course leaf green towels and vinyl flooring that looked like stone. Even the toilet paper roll holder was a stick bolted to a peice of slate to anchor it. You just need a theme that has meaning for YOUR family, then we can bombard u with ideas around that theme.
A: We made our rec room have a race car theme. It had black and white checkerboard tiles on the floor (got at Lowes and installed ourselves in one afternoon). The walls were a bluish gray for some warmth. We used white vertical and horizontal blinds on the windows and french doors. My husband built shelving for our t.v./stereo equipment and we added race memorabilia. Throughout the room was other stuff he had collected. We did put all posters in frames and neatly displayed things so it looked organized and not thrown together or cheap.
A: Do you have teens/soon to be teens? If you have a small closet in the room, you can turn it into a phone booth. We installed a shelf for the phone, hung a fun light fixture, put in a comfortable stool and stenciled the wall so it was ready for names and phone numbers. This could be done in a corner of the room if you don't have a closet. Another idea is to use cork tiles to cover a wall. I liked the textured look, but it also makes it easy to change posters or whatever.
