Sports Theme Game/Play Room

Here is another room from my 2nd house.  It's the game/play room.  We decorated it as a sports theme room and had a variety of items on the walls and shelves from different college and professional teams.  It is the size of an oversized 2 car garage.   

The first thing I did was paint the walls a dark blue (almost Navy) and put up a chair rail with a lot of help form my sister-in-law (she did all the cutting).

I painted the entire wall in the alcove because we decided to put built-in shelves and a window seat there and wanted the dark color to contrast with the white wood.

Once the room was painted and the chair rail was finished I began to hang "stuff" on the walls.

This is how it started...I was going to fill every inch of the main wall with "stuff" representing teams that we liked and pictures of our family and friends at various sporting events but I ended up taking some of that stuff down (see last photo).

This is a picture of the window seat and built-in shelves with lots of storage for toys, books and decorations.

This is a close up of the window seat.  I had my mom make 5 pillows (2 here and 3 on the couch) out of our old ASU t-shirts.  This was a fun way to carry out the theme throughout the room.

This picture is the only one that I have of the room in its finished form.  A few more important things were hung on the walls after this but you get the idea.