Scrabble Up Some Family Fun, With Home Games Room!
As we all continue to spend more time at home, we at Ocean Homes continue to look for ways we can you our home designs to help you and your family come together for some serious family fun.
Over the past 18 months, our homes have become our offices, classrooms, fitness studios, and our go-to favorite family restaurant. We’ve all been stuck at home, behind a screen, trying to keep up with our lives. With work and school demands taking over the house, we at Ocean Homes believe there needs to be a resurgence of good old fashioned family time, without laptops, tablets, cell phones, or TV’s.
Our remedy for screen free family time, a basement games room where you and your family can say “sorry,” as you get into “trouble,” vying for “park avenue.”
For a family home, a dedicated games room where you and yours can get silly and really play together is a must. As a specialty builder, we pride ourselves on designing livable spaces that fit our modern lifestyle, so you and your family can make the most your precocious time together. To help you make the most of your family play time, we thought we share a few of our tips for designing a games room that will make you say, “I’m all in for family games night.”
Our Ocean Homes Tips For a Winning Designing Games Room:
Have A Snack Center – Snacks, and beverages, are a must for your family games night! If you have a game's room, you’ll want to have a bar area where you have a fridge stocked with your favourite beverages, and cupboards stocked with your favourite snacks.
Match Your Game Room Aesthetic to Your House – When designing and furnishing your games room, keep it consistent with the look of the rest of your house. You want your games room to be comfortable, and theme free.
Have a Cards/Game Table – To help make family games night a weekly event, invest in a proper games table. One where you can get comfy as you play cards or board games. Are vote is for a round table.
Invest in Built In Storage – A classic built in storage unit is a must for a family games room. A built-in wall cabinet will help you keep your games room tidy, between sets. On a recess? Store your games, puzzles, or craft supplies out of sight.
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Design Your Games Room to You - Whether it’s pool, puzzles, ping-pong, poker, or personal projects of the crafty sort, furnish and design your games room, and use the space wisely to fit you and your family. Dedicating your games room to hobbies you really love will ensure you use your games room.
Think Comfy – When it comes to furniture for your games room go for comfort. Comfy chairs, comfy stools, comfy pillows. Furnishing your games room with comfortable furniture will invite you to relax as you roll the dice on family games night.
Friday Night Lights – proper lighting is a must for any games room. If you plan to host a family games night make sure your games table are well lit and that you have soft ambient lighting.
Now that you have our tips for crafting a family fun games room, we hope you use our tips to spell out some quality family time. And when you’re ready for a custom-built home, complete with a games room, let us know – we’d love to build your family’s dream house.