If you are a sports fan or are living with one, a sports-themed game room can be the perfect addition to your home. Depending on what style you want, there’s a wide variety of sports themes you might implement. You might create a décor around a specific sport, a professional sports team, a college or university athletics program, or just about any and all sports you love. Consider the following tips when you go to decorate your sports-themed game room.

Decorating the Walls in a Sports Theme
If you’re decorating the walls of your game room with a sports theme, it doesn’t have to be expensive at all. In fact, many of the decorate items you might need may already be lying around the house.

• You might tack some jerseys up on the wall with nails or long push pins. Depending on your theme, you might hang professional or college jerseys, or even some of you old ones.
• You might also hang inexpensive sports posters on the walls, which can be bought at most stores that sell sports memorabilia or even movie posters.
• Other sports décor items, such as a team or school blanket or a huge wall clock, can also be used to decorate the walls.

Shelving units or shelves hung on the walls in order to display your sports items make another great decorative addition. You might choose to display items such as trophies, balls, other sports equipment, and autographed memorabilia. Whatever items you decide to display, just make sure they’re stable so they don’t come crashing down on someone.

Necessary Furniture for a Sports-Themed Game Room
One essential component of any game room is the television. You’ll also most likely want some sort of gaming system to play games and watch movies on. It’s not necessary to go out and purchase the biggest television out there, but for proper gaming you will need at least a medium-sized one. An entertainment center or an oak tv stand for the gaming room is another wise investment, as it will give you a place to house the television, gaming system, CDs, DVDs, and any other gadgets you may keep in the room. With an entertainment center, everything will have a place, which will help to keep the room organized and clean. For some extra character, use the top of the center to display some sports-themed items.

Another essential component of a game room is comfortable seating. In terms of color, you might chose to buy seating in the color of the team or school you are featuring, or you can go with a more neutral color such as tan or cream. Then you can add some decorative pillows to the chairs or couches to create more of a sports feeling in the room. You’ll find that most professional and collegiate teams have decorative pillows available. Another option is to simply throw a sports-themed blanket on the back of the couch or the chair.

With so many different sports décor items you can use, creating your sports-themed game room should be an easy process. You don’t need to have a large budget. All you need to do is pull out all those sports items you already have, such as your old baseball cards, sports equipment, and any other sport memorabilia you may have accumulated.