Paint the walls of your game room a dark amber color to create a warm, intimate atmosphere.
Ultimately, there are two challenges that make painting a game room more difficult than painting other rooms in your home. First, choosing the right color for a casual room like a game room is important. The paint color goes a long way toward setting the atmosphere of the room. Second, painting a game room with furniture already inside can be difficult -- especially if some of that furniture involves a pool table and other large items.
Instructions
1. Choose the color of the room by painting samples of your favorite colors on the wall. Wait for the paint to dry and view the samples at different times of the day and evening before making your choice. A classic game room is a dimly lit, smoky retreat with a pool table, a dartboard and a lot of atmosphere. To recreate this atmosphere in your own home, focus on warmer colors like dark amber, brown-red or copper. Reinforce the green of a pool table by choosing a dark gray green color for the walls. Plan to install a lot of lighting in the room if you haven't already -- think hanging lights with stained glass shades -- so don't worry too much about painting the walls a dark color. Look for whatever color will nurture the type of atmosphere you'd like to see in the room.
2. Move all smaller items out of the room. This should include board games, folding tables and chairs, televisions and posters. Take down any dartboards and any other objects hanging from the walls. Place these items in a safe place elsewhere in the house for temporary storage.
3. Move larger furniture pieces out away from the walls. This should include pool tables, arcade video games and pinball machines. Cover these items with tarps by taping the tarps to these items using painter's tape. Cover the floors -- even the floors under the pool table -- with tarps as well. Tape the tarps on the floor to the baseboards of the walls. Use tarps and tape to protect any lamps hanging from the ceiling.
4. Prepare the room for painting by taping the edges of the walls around the ceiling and the baseboards. Fill in any holes in the wall with wall patch material. Let the wall patch dry. Sand the dried wall patch to smooth the area for painting. Paint the walls with a coat of primer.
5. Paint the walls of the room. Use rollers for the large flat areas and paintbrushes for the outer parts of the walls and the cutting in -- the process of painting the edges of the wall near the ceiling and baseboards. Paint multiple coats as necessary. If you have chosen an especially dark color -- such as a dark red -- you may need to paint many coats to get an even finish, because red paint is made from a transparent base that makes it difficult to paint evenly.
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