Continuing on with our greatest hits tour, this week we are going to flash back to Pulpland Kentucky, where we really started to hone our home improvement skills, a lot due too the many projects we decided to take on there. Today we cover….the Pulp Gameroom!

So you have a new house, a decent amount of space and a room you are not exactly sure what to do with? We had already figured in two spare bedrooms, offices to work from home (we moved there during the pandemic) and in a nutshell, had ourselves covered, so, why not, how about a game room? I had always wanted to have a pool table (even had my own pool cues) and still liked to play darts on occasion, add a little music and a TV to watch sports, sounds like a decent game room to me!

As you can see see in adjacent pic, the soon to be game room came complete with some fairly not good looking wall to wall carpet, old window blinds, bad lighting and a not great off-white wall paint that just looked old and dated. Ended up giving the room that yellowish hue no matter how you looked at it.

First up was yanking all of that wall to wall carpet, patching the floor and coming in with some new LVT (Luxury Vinyl Tile). Went with a darker tone that was really going to work well with some freshly painted white walls. Went with some LED warm white light bulbs for the overhead recessed can lights, new shades and a little bit of track lighting. As luck would have it, a family member had heard of someone trying to sell a pool table, problem solved. Okay, not quite solved. You still have to move the pool table and in that, learned a decent lesson….to move a pool table, you pretty much have to take it apart, have someone move it, reassemble and then get all of the felt replaced. Yup, a bit of work, however, in this case, the folks we had bought the table from had got it from a local outfit, that sold it to them and installed, so became a matter of reversing that process and having it re-installed at our place. Time consuming and a little costly, but, got a new felt top on it and the pool table actually ended up looking brand new, so all in all, Nice!

The rest of it was decor related (plus the dart board) so picked up a nice “pool rack” for the sticks, rack and spare balls, varying art for the walls, a couple tables and chairs for hanging out and already had a spare tv and music system that just need to be extended into the room. Another fun project!

So this week, we salute…The Pulp Gameroom!

Additional pics below. Hope you enjoy and see you all next week!