Murals are cool! Your baseball wall could be painted likea snapshot from home plate, at the park you played. The golf wall could have something like the 17th hole at sawgrass, with a deer on the green!! I've always been a cedar man when it comes to T&G, but knotty pine is nice too! I've always liked doing a wainscoting to the same hieght as the bar, then covering the beams and posts with the same material! Maybe even do your entire TV wall in a herringbone pattern! I would put tile on the floor around the bar area, and carpet through the rest of the room!

I could go on all night, as I've been in the re-modeling field, for almost 20 years!