Hey,

I put carpet down in mine. Standing on concrete for any length of time is kind of hard on the feet, or so I find...

Luke

What are the dimentions of the room?

1) Move boxes out
2) Put a keg in the room
3) Move games into room and plug them in

GAME ROOM COMPLETE!

Than call us up for a grand opening.

I put backglasses in my basement windows. You could also go to a car skin shop and have them make vinyl sheets the exact size of your windows.

For the bright windows,you could put slated timber blinds on them to match the doors.The stone /brick is a bonus to have in a gameroom.Enhance that for sure.Can you fit your 5 games on the right wall as you walk in?

FWIW; the keg is the best option.

Then you'll probably manage to 10 in there!

Whats the budget?

Are you doing the drywall work yourself?

Looks like some purging (the boxes and stuff) is first.

Patch the ceiling drywall.

I would tear all the plaster/drywall off the old fireplace up to the ceiling. Sandblast or otherwise clean the stone/brick and see if you like the look. If you don't like the look, I would drywall over the brick/stone rather than painting it.

Have the concrete floor ground smooth and stained or just carpet it.

Replace the trim on the windows to make it consistent or just stain/varnish if it already is.

Wire and install a TV above the fireplace (power and cable).

One problem you may have (can't see it in the pictures) is power for the machines. If you are installing 6 machines, you should have a dedicated electrical circuit or 2 installed to power them. It's likely most of your basement is on one circuit and 6 machines, the lighting and other electrical item (kegerator, for example) will consume that whole circuit causing the circuit breaker to blow when you try and run them all at once.

window tint film will help before going venetian blinds curtains or whatever. some of the film is like partially mirrored to reflect away outside heat, helps insulate in winter, and increase some privacy, very easy to apply. that stonework shelf looks like its a bar already? definite YES about having a couple electric circuits so they arent overloaded, I'm also a fan of Uninterruptable Power Supplies aka surge protecting power conditioning battery backup units for computers, pinball machines have integrated them so that kind of protection isnt a bad idea at all. sheetrock paint carpet all easy enough, I'd want to wire in a bunch of recessed lighting "can" fixtures overhead which might not be fun when the sheetrock is already in place, so there I'd maybe go with indirect lighting instead between ceiling and walls? I'd call it a coin-toss on that, either way you're probably going to have to get through some sheetrock to power up the lights and it isnt that hard to redo, texturing is gonna hide seams etc anyway.

I did a bunch of rehabs on older houses and we would clean up the brick or stone, repoint them if needed and then polyurethane them , looks awesome and locks everything in, I always did a high gloss finish but you can do satin if you don't want it too shiny, I always used minwax oil base

Our fireplace was painted several times and one underlying layer would not come off using chemical strippers and sand blasting was not an option so I ended up painting it. People don't know it's painted, they think it's original.
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hehehe, that's pretty awesome! Looks great!

That turned really well.Probably kind of fun to do.

I recently stripped the paint successfully off mine after stupidly painting it 12 years ago.DSCN6437.JPG