Hobby/Game Room - an ub3r WIP!

[ub3r_n3rd]

Now that our new house is done and we are unpacking, living in it for 11 days as of the time of this posting. I wanted to go ahead and start up a WIP thread showing my hobby/game room and the WIP as the last few days I've been setting it up so that I can paint. My OCD won't allow me to actually paint (even though I have an area for it now) until I have the rest of the room cleaned up and organized!

 

Let's start up with the original plans -

 

 

And here it is after it was done, a blank slate!

 

[ub3r_n3rd]

Friday night (December 23rd)

 

After having the IKEA guys come out and assemble and install 3 rooms worth of furniture (which took them about 5 days of coming back due to their high volume of install requests). I was here:

 

Edited December 26, 2016 by ub3r_n3rd

[ub3r_n3rd]

Christmas day I was working on it most of the day - 

 

 

This is where I'm at as of today after working on it last night -

 

New IKEA 9-drawer cabinets installed and I put address labels on them which are from A to Z and am in the process of getting my unpainted minis put into their proper places. This is a long and tedious task as I have thousands err TWENTY minis to put away!

 

The minis that need to be put away still are in the box on the wife's chair - the corner curio with all my display painted figures and the figures that all my friends from here and elsewhere have given me along with the Odin bust watching from above (thanks to George)!

 

The cabinet between the windows holds wooden bases/plinths and this is where I'll set up my Foldio, to the sides will be the foam cutter and the toaster oven (which I got for xmas). The toaster oven will allow me to bake up my clay at my desk!

 

Here's the painting station in the corner, I rigged up my TaoTronics lights to the side of a bits box and under one of my cabinets. I've got all my paints organized the way I want them and ready to go. I need to get a new cutting board though, the old one was warped and unable to be useful any longer. The cabinet near the window here is for miscellaneous things such as Stamp pads, basius 2 pads, hot glue gun, and hirst arts box full of stuff.  The next cabinet over is for Clays, Putties, and modeling pastes/resin sands, etc.

 

I'll set up my larger screen over here on the right side of the desk along with my WIPs I'm currently doing. The center cabinet here has Glues, Mediums, and Soaps. The right cabinet has basing materials. 

 

I'll go to IKEA and grab probably 3 more shelves to be able to store more things in the cabinets as I really don't like stacking too much and want to see things and get to them without them falling over. The cabinets are about 7 inches deep, 24 inches wide and 30 inches tall. They are soft closing and are push to open.

 

Here on this wall will be the new 50" 4K TV I picked up on a 1 day sale from Costco for $499! I gave the beastly 50" plasma the mother in law as the thing weighs in with a mount at almost 150 lbs and is much wider, I wanted more sleek and light weight in here. I'm going today to buy the mount so I can put it on the wall today and get it out of the box and off the floor. Under the TV are 2 white bookshelves that I'll place my PS3, PS4, and Xbox 1 on. Inside the bookshelves will be board games.

 

Here's the current gaming table set-up, it's still full of things I need to put away, a lot of this stuff will go into the garage and other rooms or find a place in cabinets or shelves. This table is 4'x4' and has seating for 6. The table I'll build will be probably 3 to 3 1/2' and 6 1/2 to 7' long as I think the 4' wide is a bit too wide for my room and fill it up a tad bit too much. It'll look a lot better in here as well when everything is off the floor and put away, right now it's too crowded.

 

Not pictured -

 

In the back right corner I have a mini fridge and I want to get a cabinet and countertop and mount a microwave up above so it'll be the snack area for my group when they come over to play or when people come over to hang out and play board games or card games!

Edited December 26, 2016 by ub3r_n3rd

[ub3r_n3rd]

I went to IKEA tonight (December 26th) and picked up 4 more of the shelves that go inside the cabinet units. They are like $2.50 each so for $10 I became even more organized with my storage, feels good!

 

Here's what the cabinet units now look like and how I organized them after moving a few things around to where I felt like they made even more sense.

 

Cabinet #1 - WOOD! Plinths, bark, balsa, and building materials.

 

Cabinet #2 - Stamping, staining, plaster, talc, hirst arts, and hot glue stuff. You can see my bits bin underneath which isn't full yet, lots of room to expand in it. I've got one of my TaoTronics lights stuck to the side of it.

 

Cabinets #3 & 4 

 

#3 - Soaps, Resins, Sculpting putties, clays, and epoxies, water effects, oxide paste, etc. Also has the TaoTronics light mounted underneath. 

#4 - Mediums, primers, dull coat, glues, blue tack, etc.

 

Cabinet #5 - Basing materials only

Edited December 27, 2016 by ub3r_n3rd

[robinh]

plan looks good but need to see some progress ..

 

 

done yet?

[canuckotter]

Is there / will there be under-cabinet lights? If not, might I suggest setting aside a bit of budget space for them when feasible?

 

ETA: And because I'm dumb, I forgot the important part: Looking good! Can't wait to see more progress!  

Edited December 26, 2016 by canuckotter

[ub3r_n3rd]

plan looks good but need to see some progress ..

 

 

done yet?

Thanks!

 

Did you say that before I edited and added to the reserved spots?

 

Is there / will there be under-cabinet lights? If not, might I suggest setting aside a bit of budget space for them when feasible?

 

ETA: And because I'm dumb, I forgot the important part: Looking good! Can't wait to see more progress!

 

Yeah I'm thinking of doing some under light cabinets LED strips AND/OR a bigger light that'll clamp onto the corner area of the painting spot which will be a draftsman's light, I saw some on amazon for like $100 and really liked the look of them. Right now I have 6x 6inch 90W LED daylight bulbs in the ceiling and the TaoTronics directly above my paint area, which I mounted to the bits box and under cabinet using that super strong double-sided sticky tape.

 

Thanks!

[Arc 724]

Wow this is looking really well good sir 

[robinh]

 

plan looks good but need to see some progress ..

 

 

done yet?

Thanks!

 

Did you say that before I edited and added to the reserved spots?

 

 

Yes,,,yes I did.

 

Now I can see some progress and I am extremely jealous!

[Bloodhowl]

There were no secret doors on the map.  Where are you going to hide stuff from Buglips without secret doors?

[ttuckerman]

Duh! Those are secret.  Looking good (for such a small place.)  My finshes are much less, but my small table is 6' x 4'  The large table is 4'x13'.  But it is in the basement, something that the don't have in your area.

[Auberon]

Congrats on the hobby room.  I'm glad you like it.

[Thes Hunter]

Looking good, and I'm stealing lots of ideas!

[chaoshead]

Looks good so far and I am sure that it will be even better once you have it the way you want it.

 

I will say that I am more than a little jealous that your room has windows.

 

That is the only thing mine doesn't have that I would really like in a game room.

[Matbar]

I hate you a little.  :-)  Love the room, and love the paint rack.  Is that the original Kraken one from TGJ, or is it from the newer company?