Comments on: Let board games multitask as artwork

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.

By: Jasileet

Jasileet — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:50:58 +0000

@Joanne: Also, though I’m a minimalist and that closet makes me cringe.. I think it’s been decided a long while ago on Unclutterer that we would not define excess as “clutter” as long as it’s organized and still in use or loved.

I wasn’t in on that vote, but I respect it. =P

By: Jasileet

Jasileet — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:46:11 +0000

I saw this on “Decorating Cents”, an HGTV show, 4 years ago. The designer sandwiched the game boards between plexiglass and mounted them. It was a great way to preserve favorites. She even put little felt footpads on the backs. I guess you could use Clip Frames, too.

By: Mac

Mac — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:37:27 +0000

Although this clearly demonstrates my own bias, the glaring problem with the second picture of the game closet is that the cribbage board hanging above the closet is far too inconveniently out of reach for the frequency with which it should be played.

Seriously though, good job!

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:12:14 +0000

I’ve collected some vintage board games for this purpose, with the idea of someday decorating a game room with them. I’ve got old Charlie’s Angels, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica…. and even this old “What Shall I Be?” career game for girls, in which the choices were essentially: nurse, dancer, model, teacher…. Yikes!

By: Alexander Forst-Rakoczy

Alexander Forst-Rakoczy — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:22:42 +0000

The furry pillow in the second picture is especially well uncluttered…

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:13:00 +0000

@ Erin, I think Joanna is talking about the last photo in her own blog post about her games room, rather than the Unclutterer post.
putting games on the wall is an interesting idea, but I’m most impressed with the photo of the games storage cupboard – ours doesn’t look anything like that!