Framing and matting

[mcgwirecom]

Wow Mark, your room is EXACTLY the same as the one I did about 20 years ago in my last house. These are some pictures of when I first got it done. It ended up with a lot more stuff on the walls. But the layout is exactly like yours.

[gashouse34]

Originally Posted by mcgwirecom

Wow Mark, your room is EXACTLY the same as the one I did about 20 years ago in my last house. These are some pictures of when I first got it done. It ended up with a lot more stuff on the walls. But the layout is exactly like yours.

Nice room Randall! Question for you (or anyone else with experience). How do you get Pennants to hang on a ceiling? I'm totally out of room in my smaller sports room but have a bunch more pennants i'd like to display.

[Runscott]

Randall, I can't stand this. I've been accumulating 'man room' (with pool table) stuff for years, but no house yet. At one point I even had an antique cue rack and examples of almost every 4-veneered Brunswick cue ever made, all ready to play. My gf is looking for a house and has agreed to let me have a room to be used however I want, so there will be a happy ending someday.

Great job with that room!

[mcgwirecom]

Originally Posted by gashousegang_1

Nice room Randall! Question for you (or anyone else with experience). How do you get Pennants to hang on a ceiling? I'm totally out of room in my smaller sports room but have a bunch more pennants i'd like to display.

Hi, it was one of those acoustic ceiling tiled ceilings. I just tacked them up there. A few were in those plastic pennant holders (flimsy kind) and I tacked the holder. Most were cheap, newer pennants and originally I did it to hide the blue chalk marks from mis-handled cues. The ceiling was kind of low as it was in the basement. Originally the wall was inside of the support pole but I wanted a regulation pool table so I moved it out further.

[mr2686]

Randall, I forgot to mention that your Aaron Hill is outstanding. Very well done. Do you have any others that you've done that you can share?

[mcgwirecom]

Thanks, that was my first shadow box. I've been making displays of 500 homerun club tickets for a few years. Taking one HR stub from each player and making a display. I always thought they were pretty cool.

[brookdodger55]

Hey Randall

Great looking display to you and all else. Kinda got me interested in trying to do the matting myself. I have a lot of items just sitting in top loader and 8by10 holders that I can make various groupings of.
Great looking stuff.
Mike

[mcgwirecom]

Try it, its a lotta fun. Just start off with making square and rectangle mattes. You will get the hang of it. Plus it litterally saves hundreds of dollars. matting is the most overpriced industry I know of. the only thing I wish I could do was those cuts they make with a machine of logos and what not. I wouldn't mind getting a mat cutting machine someday but I thing they are pricey.