How often do you go in your spare room?

[daddy cool]

Boring_Chris said:

Two bedrooms - one's a week day bedroom, the other's a weekend one.

Apart from the collection of buttplugs and the gimpsuit on a tailors mannequin, what else distinguishes the "weekend" bedroom?

[fathomfive]

daddy cool said:

Boring_Chris said:

Two bedrooms - one's a week day bedroom, the other's a weekend one.

Apart from the collection of buttplugs and the gimpsuit on a tailors mannequin, what else distinguishes the "weekend" bedroom?

Very well starched curtain hems.

[K50 DEL]

wildcat45 said:

it gets scarily cold in the SW facing rooms. The lowest I got over the winter was 12C with the window shut.

I thought you said cold... 12c is what I run my central heating at throughout the winter! mind you, I generally walk around at home in shorts all year, it really doesn't get proper cold in this country very often

[wildcat45]

K50 DEL said:

I thought you said cold... 12c is what I run my central heating at throughout the winter! mind you, I generally walk around at home in shorts all year, it really doesn't get proper cold in this country very often

Yeah I'm a big girl! :-)

[boobles]

Quite often as it's my gym room.


& it's haunted apparently but it doesn't stop me from going in there.

[LordHaveMurci]

Rarely, it needs a good sort out really, the OH had a sort our a while ago but it really needs doing properly!

Actually got friends staying in it this weekend, that's if we can find the bed under the mountain of crap piled on top of it.

[Boring_Chris]

fathomfive said:

daddy cool said:

Boring_Chris said:

Two bedrooms - one's a week day bedroom, the other's a weekend one.

Apart from the collection of buttplugs and the gimpsuit on a tailors mannequin, what else distinguishes the "weekend" bedroom?

Very well starched curtain hems.

When the bedsheets stink of blood, spunk and piss by Sunday, I don't have to change them. Just move bedrooms.

[MadMullah]

I spent around £8,000 on fixing up my basement into my games room - the plan was there - the tv arrived and then the huge desk for the pc

it was really brilliant for a while...

then i got a nice laptop and wondered why i had to go downstairs...

then i got a xbox one and with the stuff it could do plugged it into the living room tv...

slowly my daughters took over my room.

and now apart from the shelves of games its no longer my games room

[Ali Chappussy]

All the time as it's my 'den'.

All my PC's, camera equipment and old PS3 resides in there. Large HD wall mounted TV, gaming chair, flight sim and loads of other good stuff in there too. Oh and I store some clothes in there as well as the main bedroom which SWMBO has most of the clothes space.

[pembo]

I go in there once a week to pick up my dry washing which is stored on the spare bed for some reason. It feels like such a waste of space, we use it so rarely that after 3 years it is still painted in the pink and green that was there when we moved in.
I want to hang my bike on the wall in there to free up space in the shed but I've been told it has to be kept clear for visitors :/

[sjj84]

I go in mine quite regularly, the box room is where we currently hang the washing, but will soon become the nursery. The largest spare is currently set up as a bedroom, but is generally used to store crap, all my bike gear is in here though so I go in there every time I go out on it. We have another spare which the previous owner knocked through into the main bedroom to make a dressing area. I like the fact that it gives us 3 windows in the bedroom, so it's light and the room feels large, can't help but feel it's a waste though.

Lived in a 2 bed flat before, very very rarely went in the second bedroom. It had 2 bathrooms too, because of the way the door was hung in the main bathroom, it was easier to use the ensuite, think I only went in that bathroom a couple of times in the 5 years I lived there.

Edited by sjj84 on Saturday 28th May 01:00

[soad]

Not often enough. Only finished painting it last month, and I hate painting.
Plan is to put a sofa, gaming tv and a few older consoles...

[red_slr]

We have 2 "spare" rooms that are currently empty. Not really sure what to do with them yet - one will be my office / man cave but struggling to decide on layout as its a bit of a funny layout. The other spare room will probably just end up being storage.

The worst room in the house at the moment is the lounge as that's also empty. We have yet to find a sofa that we like or any other furniture! So its just sitting there empty. I think I have been in there about 3 times in the last 2 months.

[Jaska]

soad said:

Not often enough. Only finished painting it last month, and I hate painting.
Plan is to put a sofa, gaming tv and a few older consoles...

Was going to go down this route with my spare room with N64s etc etc, but the more I read into it, you really lose quality trying to display old consoles in wide-screen (basically anything before PS2) - so been looking into using my old laptop, hook it up via hdmi and use emulators with the standard controllers plugged in via USB to avoid that... There is a lot of info on the Internet about this stuff though about which wires to use and so on, like it's preferable to buy some consoles from Japan or the US to avoid the PAL region issues.

[soad]

Jaska said:

Was going to go down this route with my spare room with N64s etc etc, but the more I read into it, you really lose quality trying to display old consoles in wide-screen (basically anything before PS2) - so been looking into using my old laptop, hook it up via hdmi and use emulators with the standard controllers plugged in via USB to avoid that... There is a lot of info on the Internet about this stuff though about which wires to use and so on, like it's preferable to buy some consoles from Japan or the US to avoid the PAL region issues.

PS2, PS3 and GameCube (for Resident Evil remakes) will do me, plenty of games to catch up on. Yet to purchase a SNES...

[IanUAE]

At home I use the spare room to keep my work bag and cycling bag in.

In my project apartment (located 5 hours flying time away), I use the spare room as a packing room for keeping documents / clothes that I will take back with me.

[16v stretch]

Jaska said:

soad said:

Not often enough. Only finished painting it last month, and I hate painting.
Plan is to put a sofa, gaming tv and a few older consoles...

Was going to go down this route with my spare room with N64s etc etc, but the more I read into it, you really lose quality trying to display old consoles in wide-screen (basically anything before PS2) - so been looking into using my old laptop, hook it up via hdmi and use emulators with the standard controllers plugged in via USB to avoid that... There is a lot of info on the Internet about this stuff though about which wires to use and so on, like it's preferable to buy some consoles from Japan or the US to avoid the PAL region issues.

Here's a fix for you

• RetroPie/Emulation Station
• Raspberry Pi 3
• USB/Bluetooth controller.

You'll easily loose a week once you get going.

[Vitorio]

Jaska said:

Was going to go down this route with my spare room with N64s etc etc, but the more I read into it, you really lose quality trying to display old consoles in wide-screen (basically anything before PS2) - so been looking into using my old laptop, hook it up via hdmi and use emulators with the standard controllers plugged in via USB to avoid that... There is a lot of info on the Internet about this stuff though about which wires to use and so on, like it's preferable to buy some consoles from Japan or the US to avoid the PAL region issues.

Get an old CRT for the older consoles! You dont need a huge screen for the older games anyway (theyll just end up looking crap blown up big), and a decent sized CRT should be found cheaply. There are whole subcultures in retro gaming devoted to finding the best CRTs for older consoles, but any basic 20" CRT should be just fine for old school games (heck, i used to play on a 14" screen back in the gamecube days)

[soad]

Vitorio said:

Jaska said:

Was going to go down this route with my spare room with N64s etc etc, but the more I read into it, you really lose quality trying to display old consoles in wide-screen (basically anything before PS2) - so been looking into using my old laptop, hook it up via hdmi and use emulators with the standard controllers plugged in via USB to avoid that... There is a lot of info on the Internet about this stuff though about which wires to use and so on, like it's preferable to buy some consoles from Japan or the US to avoid the PAL region issues.

Get an old CRT for the older consoles! You dont need a huge screen for the older games anyway (theyll just end up looking crap blown up big), and a decent sized CRT should be found cheaply. There are whole subcultures in retro gaming devoted to finding the best CRTs for older consoles, but any basic 20" CRT should be just fine for old school games (heck, i used to play on a 14" screen back in the gamecube days)

What about a projector?

[andy-xr]

Ilovejapcrap said:

I don't go in mine much once a week ?

Lot of people talking about marriage going tits up. Really makes me think should I stay single and never have a family ?

Scary stuff.

Might crash, better not buy a car

Our spare room is being turned into a nursery. In spare rooms we've had before we kitted them out for other people to stay, but that was only ever a few nights a year so we downsized as there wasnt much point having the space to occasionally use it. I guess if the space just comes with the house you like then that's different.y I turned the little bedroom into a study and the second bedroom into a studio in a house I owned a fe years ago