Penrhos's Gamesroom - it begins

penrhos · Post by **penrhos** » October 11th, 2008, 4:00 pm

A few of you have been round to mine and seen the state of the garage where I store my cabs. I've finally got the funds and the go-ahead from the wife to do something about it.

I took me three nights of hard graft to clear the middle of the garage so the builders could work in there - I wont be playing anything for a while...

The builders should be back on Wednesday to fit the door & frame. I ordered a 33" wide firedoor with all the bits you need to meet building regs fitted with a 7-lever high security lock (no more worrying about my cab collection being in a normal garage).

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penrhos · Post by **penrhos** » October 11th, 2008, 4:55 pm

I wont be using these for a while...

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DandySephy · Post by **DandySephy** » October 11th, 2008, 5:23 pm

Sell all your "duplicate" cps2 A boards, you'd probably get a fair whack towards that building cost

Post by **tart31** » October 12th, 2008, 9:11 am

I could paint and supply the material for free for a nice cab from the collection

penrhos · Post by **penrhos** » October 12th, 2008, 10:08 am

tart31 wrote:I could paint and supply the material for free for a nice cab from the collection

I did offer a Naomi cab for some plastering/painting on WPG but didn't get any takers.

I'm in two minds about the rest of the project.

1) Get planning permission & pay £2000 to remove the garage door and have a wall + window fitted that matches the rest of the house & have it plastered.

2) build a stud partition behind the door and just paint the blocks white which will be about £250 - so I can change it back to a garage if needed.

Issue is - is a 4 bedroom house with double garage worth more than a 4 bedroom house with 1 garage & a gamesroom.

j69 · Post by **j69** » October 12th, 2008, 11:17 am

option 1 will add more value to your house

Post by **tart31** » October 12th, 2008, 12:04 pm

I agree it's a extra room to add to the house

dj_johnnyg · Post by **dj_johnnyg** » October 12th, 2008, 1:58 pm

I hate garage conversions.

Keep the option of the garage available, unless you're planning on selling up soon.

Post by **markedkiller78** » October 12th, 2008, 2:07 pm

dj_johnnyg wrote:I hate garage conversions.

Keep the option of the garage available, unless you're planning on selling up soon.

Aye, make your decision based on how long you plan on staying there.

Tbh if I saw a games room in a house I liked I'd be all over it, but if I had 3 cars & no arcade machines I might think different.

penrhos · Post by **penrhos** » October 12th, 2008, 3:02 pm

I'd still have one garage & off-road standing for another 3 on the front of the house even after converting the garage so parking wouldn't be an issue. Its just I'm not 100% sure people would get a gamesroom. Mind you I'm not planning on moving again unless I have to.

Post by **markedkiller78** » October 12th, 2008, 3:51 pm

penrhos wrote: Mind you I'm not planning on moving again unless I have to.

Do it then

Post by **cools** » October 12th, 2008, 7:45 pm

markedkiller78 wrote:
dj_johnnyg wrote:I hate garage conversions.

Keep the option of the garage available, unless you're planning on selling up soon.
Aye, make your decision based on how long you plan on staying there.

Tbh if I saw a games room in a house I liked I'd be all over it, but if I had 3 cars & no arcade machines I might think different.

When my parents last moved - was when I was 7 I think - one of the houses we looked at was entirely open plan upstairs, with bedrooms and all the rest downstairs. And a Galaxian tabletop at the top of the stairs.

It's somewhere within 3-4 miles of where I am. The Galaxian is no doubt long gone, but I was sorely disappointed that we didn't get that house!

Post by **andygeezer** » October 12th, 2008, 8:12 pm

My advice move house..

I am thinking off moving to a bigger place purely on a business side of things, to rent a unit would cost more than a new mortgage anyway.

penrhos · Post by **penrhos** » October 26th, 2008, 12:14 am

Update time.... £900 & 16 Litres of Dulux white paint later.

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Post by **Psykick** » October 26th, 2008, 12:22 am

Starting to look nice and clean. I'm also in the middle of a small renovation to the house with lots of paintwork, first it's a bloody mess, but in the end it looks perfect again and that makes you feel great man. Nice and tidy

penrhos · Post by **penrhos** » October 26th, 2008, 12:25 am

I have set a deadline for getting it tidy of nov 5th - as i'm off to A.dam for the weekend and dont want the missus complaining there's cabs all over the house while I'm gone.

xavierjesus · Post by **xavierjesus** » October 26th, 2008, 1:10 am

**** hell dude, yer never away from the dam, eh?

penrhos · Post by **penrhos** » October 26th, 2008, 9:06 am

And why not -

£75 inc taxes for the flight....

£130 inc tax for three nights in the 4 star hotel....

£300 on Food, Beer & weed if the last trip is anything to go by (mainly beer if I remember correctly).

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xavierjesus · Post by **xavierjesus** » October 26th, 2008, 10:41 pm

lol. damn right comrade! love that city. and not just fer the obvious either. totally feel what alain de botton has to say about the place in 'the art of travel'.

Post by **mufunyo** » October 27th, 2008, 12:10 am

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Whoa, you can't roll worth ****... This is how you roll a dutchie:

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