To determine what finishing touches will work best for your home billiard room, you should start by locating the focal point of the area. In most cases, your billiard table is the most obvious focal point present, since it is not only the biggest piece of furniture in the room, but also where most people will be directing their attention while present. Hopefully, your walls and floor already match with your pool table. If not, remedy that first. Then you can begin choosing all of the details you need for those ever-so-important “finishing touches.” Select wall hangings and decor that suit your individual tastes above all else. Decorations and smaller billiard room furniture pieces can be found at tons of different places, including sporting goods stores, home decorating or department stores, specialty stores and malls, and definitely on the internet.
For starters, consider your walls and other “free” space. By “free” space, I mean areas such as walls or open air space (billiard lamps, bar lights, etc.) that take up no extra floor space whatsoever. A few ideas include neon signs, a neon or felt clock, sports team pennants, logoed mirrors, a dart cabinet, a beer stein collection, and so on. A Tiffany, stained glass pool table lamp will add class to any billiard room, and be sure to also include a solid, wall cue rack, preferably one that is made of wood and matches the wood color and grain of your billiard table.
If your billiard room is a bit smaller and is not conducive for larger billiard room furniture, try going with some scattered bar stools and possibly a pub table in the corner. Bar stools are perfect for billiard and game rooms, as they naturally “go with the flow” of billiards and are built to get on and off of quickly. If larger billiard room furniture is an option, then match your upholstery colors, wood styles, etc. to complement the rest of your billiard room, again with the focal point being your billiard table. The same applies to any alternative gaming table you might be considering, such as a poker, foosball, or air hockey table. Try going with one that matches most everything else in your billiard room, primarily your pool table.
If you want to go even further, you can add more options to your billiard room and turn it into a multi-purpose game room. Some examples include:
- Installing a wet bar
- Including a pub table with a few bar stools in the corner for separate conversation
- Adding a satellite television system
- Adding a sound system and/or karaoke machine
- Incorporating complementary games, such as darts, poker, foosball, shuffleboard, a pinball machine, etc.
Adding more complementary components to your billiard room will help mold it into the focal point of your entire house, creating an environment that everyone will enjoy. Not to mention, it will also allow your billiard room users more options if they are not currently engaged in a game of pool.
Once you have started, you will find that decorating the perfect billiard room may be an ongoing process, as the human mind changes with the weather. And remember, decorate to please yourself, and have fun. You will be amazed at what you can achieve. Check out Billiard N Bar Stools for an abundance of ideas, articles and products to put the finishing touches on your home Billiard Room.
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