Retro Game Room
Decorate Your Family Recreation Room with a Flair for the Past
Decorating a family game room is a fun and exciting process, especially if you can include other members of your family in the decorating process. One great way to get everyone excited about a recreation room decorating project is to give it a retro theme.
Retro decorating can cover a wide variety of eras. You can go recent retro and focus on something like Atari games or go way retro and focus on vintage board games. You can even get a little more specific and focus on one aspect or one game that your family adores. Whichever way you decide to go, use the tips below to help you decorate your game room with a retro touch.
Get Real Retro
By being a creative shopper and bargain hunter you can find a lot of original games or items from the era you’re focusing on to use in your decorating scheme. Begin by looking for games from your era that you can use as decorations or add them to your collection of games so there is a great selection of things to play. But don’t stop with the obvious, look to find magazines, original furniture pieces, posters, and other odds and ends that really give your game room an authentic feel.
Look for Great Replicas
Sometimes finding an actual retro piece is difficult, especially if you’re looking for old furniture pieces, but you may be able to find great and inexpensive replicas that give you the same look and feel as the original. This is also true with the games, you may not be able to find an original 1940’s slinky but no one will know the difference between an original and a recent model.
Go Big and Small
One of the keys to pulling together a great room is attention to detail. You need to keep the big picture in mind but also look at all the little extras that you can add to your retro game room theme. Begin with a painting scheme and the big pieces such as seating options, tables, flooring and other obvious large items. Then narrow it down and look at some accessories such as artwork, pillows, throw rugs, larger accessories. Then take it even further and add old magazines, a basket full of small games from the target era, newspapers or clippings. This is a great time to get personal too and add old family photos from that era, it’s a great conversation starter.
Focus on the Games
A family recreation room or game room is meant to create a sense of fun and togetherness so it’s important that you don’t get so lost in creating a perfect setting that you forget the room is meant to be one where people get wild and have fun. Give people room to play their games and let the activities lead your decorating scheme. If you need a lot of floor space because your family loves Wii Fit or Twister, then don’t crowd it with too much furniture but if your family loves to put together puzzles, create several different tables so a variety of puzzles can be worked at once or for puzzle speed competitions.
Retro decorating for a family game room is fun way to bring energy and excitement into your recreation room and you can include others in the decorating and hunt for retro pieces, making it more fun from beginning to final product.
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