I ended up buying a 4′ × 4′ folding table to have something to start playing on and we also got a Kallax shelf from Ikea to allow us to move our board games out of a bedroom closet and into the game room. I started shopping around for a table and realized that I wasn’t sure what I wanted yet, and any of the dedicated gaming tables seemed to have at least a few months between ordering one and having it delivered. My gaming bookshelves and my miniature display case were the only furniture from our old house that got earmarked for the game room, so it was initially pretty empty.
We were able to get a house with a spare room thanks to the lower real estate prices, and so my dream of a game room could become a reality. When I moved from Seattle to Raleigh, that changed. For some time, I’ve wanted a dedicated gaming room with a nice game table, but I didn’t have a spare room in my house.
