Been at my place for many years, and never had a good room for Pinballs. Years of pleading with the wife and she relented and said I could remodel the walk-in closet the previous owner had built in our basement. So, this is now this. (before and after pics. Sold the Legos, paid for a pin...)
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Well, a few months work turned our basement closet into my new gameroom. Before and after pics. Hmmm, something about those 4 Sterns all lined up. What could it be? I just can't put my finger on it. Oh yeah. That's it. Need to trade the Mando for an AIQ. Anyone interested.

Pics before, remodel, and after in order:

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Nearly all of them, yes.

Holy mother of pinball! Wow, just wow. Is that 2 of the same table (can't tell which one) in the back row of your pic?

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It was time to ditch the god-awful pink walls and yellow ceiling in my recently coverted gameroom (remnants from prior owners). You'd think repainting a room would go fast? Ugh. This is a weeks worth of prep and painting. Room looks totally different now. Biggest change is a proper, white ceiling which doesn't cast ugly yellow light everywhere.

Had to paint in 2 parts, as moving the pins out of the room wasn't really an option. I was reminded how painting textured ceilings sends paint splatter everywhere.

Acoustics in this room benefit from sound-absorbing wall panels, as you'll see below.

Here's some before, during, and after pics.
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And a fun really-before pic, this was a large closet that I converted.

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Paint has come a long way the last few decades. Combined paint/primer, etc. This was basically a one-coat job with some light touchup. Amazing, actually. Paint today is basically the consistency of pudding.

Behr. Home Depot's main brand. We used Behr Premium Plus for this job.

Thought some might like a few pics of my very old gameroom from about 20 years ago. I installed a ceilng-hung G-scale train layout in the entire bottom level of my old home. It had a total of 8 different trains that came out in sequence, all computer controlled. Fairly advanced for the time. Decent selection of pins, too. MM, MB, SS, RFM, and LoTR. I took down the train system prior to selling the house in 2014.

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