Basement & Game Room Flooring with Natural Stones

With the onset of October month, the climate in the northern hemisphere will become colder, and snowfalls are likely phenomena in many regions. Usually, snow and frost are driving everyone indoors, and our homes are suddenly constrained for space for more activities.

The entire household seems disturbed, with noises coming from playing kids, TVs, and Videos around. How dare we take risks of sending children outdoors for playing games in such harsh weather?

Of course, everyone has private rooms in a home, but how long can we banish them forever? Allocating teens & toddlers their required space seems a nightmare.

In such a scenario, the basement under your nose looks like a handy space to allocate as a game room or something more than that. Your basement can be a fun zone where noise and exuberance are always invited. 

If you have decided to turn your basement in a game room, then certainly you should have a supporting structure to meet game room requirements. The first need is an indestructible floor. Out of tons of options for flooring materials, natural stones are residing on the top of the list.

I don’t wish to repeat here the advantages of the natural stones as a superb paving material because I have illustrated the same in a blog, “10 Benefits of Natural Stone Flooring That You Will Love,” with adequate details and reasons. Instead, I would like to focus on basement floor ideas using natural stones of different kinds.

Known Constraints Implementing Flooring Ideas for Basement Patio Pavers

Let’s do the first thing first. We must bear two ultimate constraints while thinking about the basement paving.

The basement is below the natural ground. It means it is like a box dig in the land. The first challenge we have to face is the possibilities of seepage of water or dampness from the surrounding land. It becomes apparent prominently during rainy or snowy days. 

The next adversity is the growth of various living fauna & flora, including fungus, bacteria, and a variety of regional insects. These lives can get their way out from any porous floor and can ruin your basement pavers faster than usual.

The third concern is drainage-related challenges, as you have to store & uplift the drained water from a pit to a public drainage system running within upper strata of the ground above the basement level.

However, there are enough solutions to cope with such anticipated anomalies emerging while planning the basement flooring with stones. So, I refrain from describing those here. The web is full of acceptable solutions to implement right from installation to final or finish touch.

Game Room Flooring

Let’s pick up the topic where we left it. Converting your basement in a game room is a nice idea, and utilizing natural stone can ultimately finish off your game room flooring, thanks to the following peculiarities of natural stone paving in the game room.

Natural stones are a sturdy choice to bear the heavy furniture required for a game room construction. For instance, 

• We know board games demand enough sizes of tables and numbers of chairs for players like the entire family.
• The video game room setup demands comfortable seating, and you can give the same with couches and chairs.
• The modern Augmented Reality and virtual reality games are expensive to install and provide needed infrastructural facilities, including specialty gaming chairs, stools, and desk to setup 3D sound & vision instruments. 
• The latest TV-based games & video games usually played in a theater-like mode where you have to place a big stand for a large flat monitor attached to the wall and several chairs in a row.

In a nutshell, from the point of view of an engineer, we can say that live and dead loads are enough on the basement game room flooring. I see only natural stone material as a competing candidate in the race of material choice for game room flooring in the basement areas.

Basement Floor Ideas

Now, let’s explore how the different types of natural stones we can use in the planning of basement floor ideas mitigate the said concerns in the basement game room flooring.

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