First off, beautiful design work. Smart thinking to keep the exercise area, as well as the comfort items for your wife.

Not sure how much pool (billiards) factors in to your social scene, can’t help but thinking that will be a lot of real estate occupied which you may come to regret. Hate to see that space used up and become an expensive storage table.

Have you truly factored in adequate space for that number of pins? Seems a bit "packed in" from the CAD.

Lastly, when do I get to visit?

Your project looks great, we are all looking forward to seeing pictures of the progress and completion.

Just for basis of comparison, or why I am chiming in....My house in northwest NJ was built in 2003, but the basement was unfinished. Took me a few years to bankroll my way through the project (doing most of the work myself) and ended up with 1200 sq feet; Lost a lot of room to utilities and fireproof code requirements.

I tried TurboCad to assist with permits, but gave up quickly in favor of graph paper as I don't possess your talent! Everything looked gigantic and wide open until the drywall went up.

Original 3 pins grew into 16, and plan to squeeze in more. I struggle with keeping the foosball, skeeball and ping pong tables, but they are popular with the younger audiences during parties.

I will work on finding pictures (and wont highjack your thread!) to share at some point. Nothing went as smoothly or quickly as I had hoped.

Hoping your layouts above prove effective in getting that much "fun" into the project. That's a lot of electrical outlets to squeeze in there too!

- Jim

Painters tape helped me greatly, definitely agree with this above. ^^^

PrinzFred is spot on about the electric planning. Make sure you have a solid electrician working your electric. I tried the "friend of a friend" at first, and that was a bust obviously. Brought in pros thereafter, they work fast and solve other underlying issues. Worth every penny.

Based on your layouts, you are going to have some amazing parties; Quite a bit of electricity running all at once too. Just wait until you have a beer in hand, and see everything lit up like a Vegas casino, the amazing sense of pride will hit you. The second electric panel with plenty of AFCI's will make life easy.

Havent chimed in here for awhile, hows the project going Yak? I noticed that you might have had a "little" snowfall recently

Jim