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What do you Need for Your Gaming Room?
The first thing you probably ask yourself is what you need for your gaming room. Of course, that depends entirely on you. However, there are some basic things that belong in every gaming room. The first thing to do is of course your setup, i.e. your computer, ideally several monitors as well as a mouse and keyboard. Then you need the appropriate furniture, i.e. a large desk, possibly some shelves and, depending on the space available, even a couch, if possible. Now you need lighting and some decorative elements. When it comes to lighting, we are of course talking about classic RGB lighting, which can be found in almost every gaming room. Add a personal touch to your room with decorative elements.
Think of a Concept
Before you even start stuffing your virtual shopping cart with any LED strips and nano-leaves, you should first think about a real concept. After all, your gaming room should represent you and your personal style. Especially if you are also streaming, it is particularly important that your background is designed coherently and that everything makes a cool impression. Setting up a gaming room also has a lot to do with planning and concept work.
You should start by setting your budget. How much money do you have available? Based on this fact, you can now start planning your gamer cave. Because if you just buy blindly, you'll probably run out of money before you've even finished designing your gaming room.
So you should give some basic thought to where you want to place your desk, where the decorations are, and what your lighting should look like. There are also various room planner apps that you should definitely use. You can enter all the data here and plan as precisely as possible. If you are one of those people who have a very poor imagination, you can also use such apps to better visualize your room in advance. That helps immensely with planning.
Color Matching
One thing you should definitely consider when setting up a gaming room is color matching. If you just randomly distribute random decorative elements and LED strips in your room, it can't look good. Try to enforce a color concept. Start here with the little things. Find a suitable gaming chair, try to match the color of monitors and other peripherals with the overall interior. Of course, your LED lighting should also be color-matched. A mixture of black and red or bright neon colors is particularly popular. Again, you have to decide that for yourself.
Be Inspired by Others
If you don't have a basic idea in mind of how you want to set up your gaming room, then you can easily get inspiration from other gamers or streamers. There are also enough platforms on the internet where you can find different types of gaming rooms. If you actively follow different streamers on platforms like Twitch, you can also get a lot of ideas from them.
A Tidy Environment
Nobody likes disorder and chaos. Especially if you want to set up your gaming room, you should go for a clean and tidy look. This can sometimes be a real challenge. Due to the fact that a gaming corner also means a lot of cables and technology, it becomes more and more difficult to keep things tidy over time.
However, you don't need to panic right away, because there are of course lots of little helpers for these problems. When setting up your gaming room, make sure that you have enough storage space and that you hide all your cables properly. There are a wide variety of cable guides for this. You can attach these to your desk or walls and easily route the various cables from your monitors and all other technical equipment.
Bundling the cables into individual strands is also extremely important. You can use simple household items such as a toilet paper roll or you can simply get cable ties. However, we recommend that you use cable ties with Velcro fasteners, as you can reuse them over and over again. Alternatively, you can of course also get cable hoses, but these are usually the most expensive.
Another point with regard to order is not only the cables but also your equipment. Your headset, controller, or other devices should always have a permanent place in your gaming room. There are also practical brackets for this, which can also be optically perfectly integrated into your room. So you can kill two birds with one stone. Because on the one hand you keep order and on the other hand you also have a decorative element that visually enhances your gaming room.
The Lighting
One of the most important things to consider when setting up your gaming room is the lighting. As we have already mentioned, colorful LED strips and RGB lighting are particularly popular with gamers. The controllable LED strips, which you can attach almost anywhere, are particularly popular. You can now get 10-12 meters of these LED strips for less than 20 euros.
You can attach these perfectly to your desk and thus provide indirect lighting if your desk is against a white wall. But these stripes can also be perfectly attached behind shelves or in showcases. There are hardly any limits to your imagination.
In addition to the LED strips, you can of course also use so-called LED signs. These are attached to the wall and look great. LED floor lamps are also an extremely popular decorative element, which also illuminates the room at the same time. The market has also expanded significantly here in recent years and offers you a huge selection, even for a small budget.
In addition to neon signs and LED strips, the so-called nano leaves are particularly popular with gamers and streamers. These are square panels with LED lighting, which you can attach to the wall in any constellation on the wall
As we mentioned before, your gaming room should be color coordinated. That's why you should choose your LED strips by color or buy strips that you can color-match using the remote control.
Create Uniqueness with Decorative Elements
Once you've come up with a color-coordinated concept, it's time to give your gamer cave a personal touch. The best way to do this is with decorative elements. You can set up action figures from your favorite games, small cars, or simply framed posters on the wall. Many gamers get extra showcases that have built-in LED lighting and place their collectibles there, which can also look pretty stylish.
However, it is also true that decoration is not a must. Many gamers rely on a particularly clean and tidy look. If you also belong to this group, you can still place some clever and subtle decorative elements. You don't want to put a huge collection of action figures on your desk right away, but some smaller posters in great frames always look great in your gaming room. You can also provide the frames with indirect LED lighting, which gives a doubly cool effect.
Stage your Gaming Setup
The heart of your gaming room is and will of course remain your setup. Accordingly, you should also stage this correctly. Here it makes sense to align everything symmetrically. This increases the look of your room enormously. Also, use the mount for your monitors so they don't stand on the table. This ensures a cleaner look and at the same time, you have more space on the desk. If you're going to get a multiple monitor setup, make sure you get the same ones. Because the VESA mounts on the back of the monitors are often of different heights. In the worst case, the monitors are not quite at the same height, which in turn would destroy the symmetry.
You can also use a lot of RGB lighting on your computer so that it stands out visually. You can place this on your desk. So it should be big enough. Because several monitors, computers, and peripherals can quickly lead to a significant lack of space.
Setting up a Gaming Room: Our Conclusion
As you can see, creating a great gaming room is not difficult. As long as you approach the matter with a good concept, look for a little inspiration from the internet, and don't overestimate yourself, almost nothing can go wrong. Of course, you don't necessarily have to stick to all the points, it's important that you feel comfortable in your gaming room, after all, it's your personal retreat. We wish you a lot of fun with the implementation.
