While we’ve talked before about the fact that our top-of-the-line entertainment room seating is multiuse and pairs perfectly with gaming room setups, it’s time to discuss how to get the most out of your new media room seating when used specifically for a gaming room. Gaming rooms are kind of a whole different thing when compared to home theaters. Sure, the basic principles are the same—rooms where you go to both relax and consume your favorite various forms of media—but, gaming rooms tend to be set up different than home theaters, and because of that, your seating can be used and designed in various ways to better fit the purpose of a gaming room.
Keep Your Fuel Within Reach
One of the things that’s all too often overlooked in gaming rooms is investing in a few quality home theater seating accessories to hold your drinks and snacks for those extra long gaming sessions. If you’re a self-professed gamer, you’ll know how hard it is to take a break once you get into a groove—plus when you’re playing online with others, there’s no chance of pausing your game to take a break, hop out of that extra comfortable media room chair that you can sink right into, and grab some snacks or a drink.
Instead, you can keep all of your essential gaming fuel within an arm’s reach with a snack tray that clips on to your entertainment room chair. It easily allows you to keep snacks like chips at hand or enjoy a small meal while you’re sitting down at your leisure. While that leather media room chaise lounge probably already comes with some built-in cupholders, maybe you want something more extravagant. Wine holder add-ons for entertainment room recliners could help give you just that. Either way, once you’re locked into one of your favorite games, you’re going to want to have a steady supply of snacks nearby.
Hidden Storage Solutions
Any gamer knows that when it comes to a dedicated gaming room, there are going to be lots of floating bits and pieces—controllers, headsets, game cases, and plenty of other gaming essentials. With all of the additional equipment, there’s a need for storage. No one wants to have a pile of clutter in the gaming room they’ve curated to show off their collection and taste in video games.
Thankfully, entertainment room sofas with ample hidden storage are well-within reach these days, and they can be a godsend in a gaming room. Pro-tip: if you’ve gone in on elevated platforms for media room seating, you can stash equipment and other gaming equipment you’re not using underneath them.
Creative Color Theming
Anyone can have a run-of-the-mill media room recliner upholstered in black leather. Not that we’re knocking it—it’s a versatile color that works in a ton of different situations. However, if you’re building out a gaming room, you might want something that’s more expressive. Every gamer certainly has their favorite series, or that game that they consider to basically be the holy grail. Why not pay homage to those favorites by getting entertainment room recliners with two contrasting colors?
If you’re a die-hard Nintendo fan, a multimedia room couch wrapped in red and blue leather could be the perfect combination. It’s iconic and immediately recognizable—everyone knows Mario. Or if you were thinking about getting a row of media room seating to sit up to four, why not look into getting yellow, red, green, and blue upholstery to match the original PlayStation logo that was used up until the late 2000s? There are almost an infinite number of routes that could be taken here to customize your seating and make it your own.
Once you’ve done that, you can even move beyond the wildly comfortable entertainment room chairs that you can sink right into and move onto the rest of the room—LED lighting to give off a futuristic vibe, figurines or statuettes of favorite characters, shelving units to display memorabilia… you get the picture.
Make Your Seating as Comfortable as Possible
Chances are, if you’ve already gotten some quality media room seating that supports your back, you’re in for a world of relaxation when you sit down—but why not take it to the next level? Cost-effective media room furniture like ottomans pair perfectly with recliners and give you a place to kick up your feet. Plus, some ottomans can even double as additional storage, like we mentioned above.
Adding other items like pillows, throw blankets, and more can further transform the way you enjoy your gaming room and your entertainment room reclining chairs, making them even more impossibly comfortable. Plus, during stressful, extended gaming sessions, it’s imperative you keep yourself as comfy as possible when you start to get on-edge over an online match.
Having some dedicated entertainment room seating while gaming can make a world of difference for your experience while playing, and they can even be a way to express your individuality as a gamer.