Is your gaming space looking a little lackluster? Won XPs for function but need a side quest in design?
If it doesn’t light you up, call to you to sit down and relax, and spark within you an unquenchable thirst to game, then it’s likely time to give your space a little love, and our gaming setup ideas are here to help.
You won’t find gaming equipment tips here - that’s all on you and how you like to game, but we hope the following ideas will help you to transform your gaming space into one that elevates your gaming experience and enhances your home. GLHF!
5 Gaming Setup Ideas to Transform Your Gaming Space & Experience
1. Give Your Space an Identity
Many of us give a lot of consideration to the interior design of our home, to ensure that it aesthetically reflects the people we are, and our unique sense of style.
This same level of careful thought is often not extended to rooms or spaces dedicated to our hobbies or interests, which because we’re lucky enough to have them at all, often end up looking a little plain. So, and this might be the most important point in our list of gaming setup ideas, give your space a visual identity that speaks to your interests and personality.
Whether you give your gaming space a theme (be that a retro arcade vibe, a trendy space-age gaming aesthetic, one based around your favourite game), or commit to a conventional type of interior design (like minimalist, bohemian, industrial, scandinavian etc), choose your colour schemes and decorative choices like flooring, wallpaper, murals, and 3D wall panels, wisely to create a look that calls you to sit down, relax, and immerse yourself in gameplay.
2. A Comfortable Chair that Pulls an Aesthetic Punch
A comfortable gaming chair is key to reaching gaming nirvana - that perfect state of being connected and immersed in the worlds of the games you wander - and there’s perhaps no option more comfortable than a bean bag gaming chair.
Gaming ergonomics has birthed an entire industry of dedicated, rather expensive gaming chairs, which differ enormously from model to model, and should be tried in person to ensure your chosen model adequately supports your body and gaming preferences, to help protect you from injury. This is why finding the right gaming chair is such an important point in our collection of gaming setup ideas.
Unlike traditional gaming models, our bean bag gaming chairs (made to order in the UK), contain no hard plastics or metals, mould to your body and support its natural contours and the curvature of your spine, to support your back, neck, shoulders, and prevent musculoskeletal pain and injuries. So, take your time browsing models that provide the support you need, like our Hi-Back gaming models.
Bean bag gaming chairs like ours are also available in a wide range of silhouettes, fabrics, and colours, so you can game in style, and match or contrast your gaming throne to your room/space’s design.
3. Features That Make the Space Uniquely Yours
Having established a visual identity for your gaming space, which we cover in our first gaming setup idea, it’s time to consider smaller yet aesthetically powerful decorative features that make the space uniquely your own, help connect you to the space, and create the ultimate environment for immersive gaming.
- Consider art prints, travel/cultural prints, movie/music/gaming/ posters, or photographs from your life.
- Explore throws and cushions for your gaming chair (and other chairs and sofas in your gaming space), rugs or vibrant gaming mats, and desk mats to add texture and aesthetic interest to your space.
- Got other hobbies? Perhaps incorporate your music or sporting equipment, the crafts you make, and even the things you collect whether that be games, books, comics, DVD’s, CD’s/Vinyl, or models/figurines etc into your room’s design.
- Plants are a great way to add texture and natural elements into your space, bring the outside in (to silence any criticism that you should spend less time gaming and more time touching grass), and minimise stress and anxiety, support concentration and productivity, and improve mood.
- Speakers are a key feature of many gaming spaces, helping to facilitate full immersion into your game, strengthening the connection between you and the game, and helping to blur the line between game and reality. This is why soundproofing is perhaps one of the most essential gaming setup ideas in our list, for the good of your family and neighbours!
- Consider attractive 3D acoustic tiles, fabric-wrapped acoustic tiles, wooden absorption panels with a range of attractive decorative designs, acoustic panels that flash like starlight or with the capability to display imagery, or there’s always traditional, less attractive, foam panels.
4. Storage Options
Storage is often overlooked when designing new spaces, but when thoughtfully considered, it can not only offer you the storage solutions you need, but play a big aesthetic role in the look of your gaming room/space. So, while storage might not sound particularly interesting or important, don’t skip this essential gaming setup idea.
Consider gaming-specific storage cabinets, typical storage cabinets or bookshelves in your room’s style of design, storage bins and woven baskets, to declutter your gaming space and display the possessions that contribute to its aesthetic impact, inspire you to game, and represent you and your interests.
Wall-hung pegboard panels, dedicated gaming wall mounts, and floating shelving are great options to store and display your collection of games/controllers/headsets/keyboards, and even DVD/CD/vinyl/comic collections. You can also find game cartridge holders or ornamental game card cases, which make excellent, practical, decorative additions to any gaming desk, side table, or cabinet.
5. Lighting That Sets the Vibe
Lighting may be the final point in our list of gaming setup ideas, but it’s certainly not the least important. In fact, lighting is essential to creating atmosphere, ambience and mood, so select your light sources carefully to create the look and vibe of your perfect gaming space.
Consider lighting options like:
- Back-lit monitors
- Desk lamps
- LED wall signs
- Light strips/bars (either wall-hung or floor/desk-standing)
- Wall-mounted lighting panels (popular in hexagonal shapes)
- Rope lights
- Fairy/String lights
- Curtain lights
- 3D LED Ceiling Clouds (recent viral gaming room trend, and DIY videos can be found across TikTok and Instagram).
We hope we’ve helped inspire you to transform your gaming room, from a functional space to an inviting gaming haven. Be sure to contact us today if you have any questions about our bespoke, UK-made bean bag gaming chairs.
