- Creating a family playroom can invite more quality time with your loved ones, so finding a healthy balance of fun for both the kids and the adults is important. Dangerous items like steel-point darts should be replaced with the safer plastic tipped darts for electronic dart boards. Adding a television with family friendly DVDs can create a way for the family to spend time together, even while the adults are having their playtime.
- Avoid harsh, colors like reds, browns, and blacks. These are not cheerful colors. Instead, using colors like yellows, pinks, blues, and greens promote a feeling of ease and joy while in the playroom. You can also split the room in half and make one of the halves brightly colored to appeal to children's senses, while stimulating their eyes. Alternatively, using muted colors on the more adult side of the basement can provide a break from the bright colors.
- Depending on what kind of playroom you are creating in your basement, the decor will determine whether or not your family will enjoy being there. Children are responsive to brightly colored items, as it triggers cognitive parts of their brain, sparking their own creativity. Avoiding adult-oriented items is a plus, with the exception of billiards tables, and child-safe dart boards.
