Comments on: Let board games multitask as artwork

By: terriok1

terriok1 — Fri, 07 May 2010 01:15:39 +0000

Just TOO cool. I collect vintage board games. I just would like to know how to hang them without damaging the boards (aside from framing them!

By: kg

kg — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:49:48 +0000

Love this idea. Thanks for the great tips.
Enjoyed checking out your pictures, too, Joanna. Looks great!!

By: Lemur

Lemur — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:27:49 +0000

Wow… I really love the 2nd picture…

I’m a game lover too, and it’s critical to keep them uncluttered…

Congrats for the post.

p.S: And, as I see in the pic, you got all the classics!!

By: allen

allen — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:37:30 +0000

@mjh:

One person’s clutter, is another person’s passion. You are also assuming you’d only play one game a night. My friends & i have a weekly game-night at their house, where over 20 of us on average assemble, and we break into groups, and play board games. there’s, on average, 3 games going on at a time, and each of us plays, on average, 3 games a night.

By: mjh

mjh — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:48:40 +0000

@Jack: ok. Still, with 200 games, it still takes the better part of the year to play them if you played one every night.

But maybe I just don’t get it. To me, it looks like clutter.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:37:54 +0000

@mjh: A board game collection like that is a serious time and money investment, and anybody who’s got that many games probably plays a lot – I worked in game retail for a while and the serious gamers view it as their primary hobby and do it more than just on casual weekends.

Any well-stored hobby should be respected, IMO.

By: mjh

mjh — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:28:55 +0000

Color me skeptical, but the 2nd picture on this post says one thing to me: you have too many games. Get rid of some. To me that closet, even if it’s organized well, is cluttered. Rough estimate: that thing has 200 games. If you played one of those games every Saturday & Sunday it would take about 2 years to go through them all.

If it were me, I’d just give lots of those games to my game loving friends. That way I could play them again if I ever had the desire, but they wouldn’t be taking up space. And even if I couldn’t convince myself to get rid of them, the ones that I played the least would go somewhere less accessible.

$0.02

By: The Daily Click

The Daily Click — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:12:01 +0000

I’d never considered using board games as a form of decoration and although I can’t say I would go for the more modern games I do like the idea of a few vintage wooden board games, looks classy and practical.

By: joanna

joanna — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:48:27 +0000

@Erin – Susan was right, I was talking about the last photo on MY post I linked to. Sorry for the confusion! I WISH I had a whole closet to store all my games, like the last photo in this post!

By: Celeste

Celeste — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:40:01 +0000

Google to find a variety of jigsaw puzzle holders for displaying puzzles you have completed so you can use them for decor. I assume you’d keep any puzzles in the game room; I have mine stored with games since the boxes are a comparable size.

By: tiara

tiara — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:22:40 +0000

The company I work for has eBay as a client. If you’ve ever been in their offices and/or conference rooms, you know they have decorated using toys of various types (for example, the all outside their on-site store is covered in Pez dispensers). One or two of the conference rooms I’ve been in have been decorated this same way. In fact, the first time I ever saw the Forty Niners game was in an eBay conference room!

By: allen

allen — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:05:55 +0000

I love this idea! I’m in the middle of reorganizing/putting crap away in my place, after putting in my new floors, and this is a great idea, for us game-geeks!

I just wish i had a closet i could dedicate to just games. :[

By: knitwych

knitwych — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:18:20 +0000

Argh! I am kicking myself for giving away my Clue, Masterpiece, Monopoly and other games!!

By: Vicki K.

Vicki K. — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:23:27 +0000

I really like how the wall and the cupboard look. This could be a practical solution for homeschoolers as many school items end up ‘out’ for ease of use.

The 49ers game box is particularly charming!

By: Erin Doland

Erin Doland — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:02:52 +0000

@Susan — Ooooooooh. I get it now.