Topic of the Week: The Spare Room

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In a departure this week: @captbnut has a newly available room in his house. Give us your best proposal, what should he and his family do with it?

I will, of course, tap Cap to pick the winner.

Starting assumptions:

  • Unlimited financial resources
  • Flexible square footage / meterage to fit your design
  • A wildcard zoning permit
  • Running water
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Well, obviously Battle for North Africa


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How about a LARPing zone for Great Western Trail. Chaps provided on request.

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I should probably say in case anyone is wondering, our eldest son is going to University in 3 weeks (gulp)

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And sorry, I should probably have linked the post where you shared that! Adventure is out there.

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Well he’s going to be extremely annoyed when he comes back two weeks later with his dirty laundry and you’ve already turned his room into a board game cave!

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Let’s totally open a boardgame cafĂ©.
(friends turned their son‘s room into boardgame storage and guest room)

I have no other ideas.

Maybe a general nerd heaven / gaming temple that also includes a big screen, your own self hosted streaming service from a NAS with your favorite movies, your favorite or all of the Switch/Playstation/xbox with enough controllers to play Mario Cart and Bomberman with your friends. A gaming couchtable that allows seemless switching into boardgame mode to play a game of Firefly or Battlestar Galactica after binging the show together.

Don’t forget a nice bar stocked with all your favorite drinks in unspillable glasses and an endless supply of miracle nonsticky and uncrumbly snacks. Plus an AI that always provides the perfect soundtrack or soundscape for any game.

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Is a sex dungeon out of the question? (asking for a friend)

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I’ve been imagining Capt “borrowing” equipment from his office to create a private showroom of glasses frames. I think his whole family has different glasses in every picture we see. It’d be like their personal ready room, but all glasses.

Then, of course, the least-descript pair in the room, when pulled forward 1cm, activates the subterranean elevator


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I once visited a penthouse apartment in London (a friend’s landlord was away on holiday and let us host a small party there) and they had a full sized trampoline in their second(!) living room, with a full view of West London through the floor-to-ceiling windows. An insight into a different class of living I suppose.

So erm, trampoline room?

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Hot tub room! Along with Too Many Bones to play, since it’s waterproof, from what I recall from Quinns’ review.

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Assuming it’s not on the ground floor, remove the floor to link with floor(s) below it and construct a bouldering wall.

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Is there space for the trampoline on the floor below?

I’m thinking that if the hand- and foot-holds for the bouldering wall are only on the top-floor half of the wall, climbers might need a bit of a flying start to get going


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Something like this, then?

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Lego! Storage, building areas, displays, etc. Lego!

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No, just recreate the kid’s bedroom out of Lego! Every bit of furniture, every item.

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May as well close this thread now; no idea will
be better than this!

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Are we making a model of the kid as well?

And if so, standard, duplo, or technic?

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Turn the room into an aquarium!

https://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/features/the-tank-that-jack-built/

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