My room of doom: The VERY beginning

[chadtower]

Okay, I'm finally beginning to really plan this sucker out. I have made a roughed out drawing of the layout of my basement as it stands right now (mess is not in the drawing but is in every bit of open space, cleaning that up this week). It's not to scale or measured or anything but I think it's fairly accurate except some measurements. I'll probably redraw it all with exact measurements and such for design purposes once I've got the area clean enough to take the measurements.

http://www.gis.net/~tower/basement/basement.jpg

The area I'm going to finish is the right side as we look at the image. Everything currently there is going to be moved out except the water heater. The oil tank, if I can do it, is going to be moved a few feet to the right so that it's closer to the water heater and furnace and therefore have less aggregate space taken up by the utilities.

I know it's awfully early, but any thoughts?

[charitycasegreg]

thats cool! get it done

[sisko]

Get rid of all the stupid crap and make room for more games. You know, stuff like your furnace, washer/dryer/water heater etc etc :)

I think my greatest fear of having a gameroom in the basement is an increased likely hood of flood damage (as told by several other DP members). Is there away to reduce that?

I also don't understand what the grating thing in the center is. Ducting for the furnace maybe? If so how low does it go?

Maybe you could put all of your game stuffs on one side so it can all be seen at once, Relocate all your fitness stuffs to another corner, and your typical basment stuffs to the last corner. Kind like this:

-------------------------------------------|
| : : |
|..................... : regular stuff : |
| : : : |
| gamestuff : :......................: |
| : |
| : :.....................: |
| : : : |
| : :workout stuff : |
|....................: :.....................: |
|-------------------------------------------|

Ignore at will :)

Stupid space delimiters >.<

Imagine a square and divde it by half. Take on half and divide it by half again. That was what I was trying to get across.

[Perkar]

I also don't understand what the grating thing in the center is. Ducting for the furnace maybe? If so how low does it go?


i'm gonna go ahead and say that's the stairs :) :)

[chadtower]

I also don't understand what the grating thing in the center is. Ducting for the furnace maybe? If so how low does it go?


i'm gonna go ahead and say that's the stairs :) :)

Ding! That's the stairs, which is why there are things under it.

Actually, the plan is to finish the area to the right into regular living space with light and floor and walls and such... and that will all be dedicated gaming space. I'm very new to this process so this is my first proactive step in trying to accomplish this...

[digitalpress]

So far, so good!

That's the first time I've ever seen a "blueprint" for a Room of Doom. Very nice, keep us appraised of your progress. It will be fun to see it take shape!

[chadtower]

Yeah... I will have to get all this stuff done for the building inspector anyway. I'm actually in my basement right now and I'm taking measurements. It turns out the left side is actually bigger... so it's possible I'll make that the room of doom instead. It has the added bonus of the exit door there in case of fire, which is nice for building code purposes.

[Flack]

In case of fire, a real man goes down with his consoles.

[chadtower]

In case of fire, a real man goes down with his consoles.

It's not myself I'm worried about. It would be my sons down there, potentially with other kids, that would be my primary worry.

[Darth Sensei]

In case of fire, a real man goes down with his consoles.

Well, maybe for a Neo Geo, but I'm not risking anything for my Sega CD. :roll:

D

[chadtower]

Seriously, CueWarrior. Anyway, I don't know that I have any consoles that I'd risk it for... now, my 50" VF2 cabinet I'd go down there with a hand truck if the building was on fire.

I have to design this with an eye to the future. I have two small sons who are already gaming and I figure any house with a room FULL of video games and also a room full of free weights is going to have a lot of neighborhood boys in it. It wouldn't do to have them die in a fire.

(I'm going to have to get a lock on the keg cooler)

[christianscott27]

i think you should have 1/4 scale train you can ride into the gameroom like on silver spoons.

[Arcade Antics]

i think you should have 1/4 scale train you can ride into the gameroom like on silver spoons.

LOL LOL LOL

And a remote control for the door.

[chadtower]

i think you should have 1/4 scale train you can ride into the gameroom like on silver spoons.

That would be cool. The tracks would be about 5 feet long, though, as my house isn't very big. LOL