We LOVE to receive great 80s party stories
like this one. Thanks so much, Michael, for sharing your ideas and
pictures. We are sure other visitors can get some great ideas when
planning their own 80s party from what Michael did.
First off I wanted to thank you for
creating your site. It has giving me plenty of ideas. My girlfriend had
her 28th birthday coming up and I wanted to do something completely
different for her and our friends. So I had an idea to throw an 80's
party. My vision of a success for this party was a complete
transformation of my girlfriends basement which was over 1000 square
feet to the ultimate 80's club. I've spent over $400.00 on party
supplies. Check out the Before and after pictures (see below). Everyone that entered
the basement had their eyes go wide and mouths dropped on how the room
came out. We had 40 guests and 27 were dressed up. I've provided several
pictures. My biggest task was how to come up with a temporary
solution
to cover up mocha color walls and brown leather couches. I had to come
up with some innovative ideas. For $35.00 dollars I bought table cover
rolls (Black and purple) to cover up the walls. I've used a puddy tape
that would make it stick the walls without ruining the paint. I've
bought a couple of vintage posters from a flea market for $40.00. I've
spent another $125 on photo ink and photo paper to print out all of the
mini 8 by 11 movie posters that you see around the room. It cost $20.00
for the zebra sheets that covered up the couches. I bought off
craigslist for $25 dollars a bunch of 80's LP's and I've used the puddy
on sections of the wall that I've kept the original color and had the
record and record cover on the walls. All of the high hats were replaced
with either strobe light bulbs, black light bulbs, blue and red light
bulbs. I had rope lights along the floor of the walls. I've also had a
disco ball and black light that I used by the music area. I've also
bought a bunch of 80's CD's for about 10 hours worth of music. The party
was amazing. Its been a few months since it has passed and people are still
talking about how great it was. We might make this an annual event since everything was able to come down very easily and none of the
posters were ripped or ruined.