Cool Home Billiard Rooms

MDSPHOTO said:
As a person who has an interest in architectural design and billiards I am not ashamed to say I'm very jealous of many of these tables and rooms.
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Most of the pictures are of fabulous places that would be really nice to hang out in even if you didn't play pool there at all. The tables are just a nice bonus! Imagine having a home like some of these rooms are in and the money to do it with! Wow. This is big time stuff here, not hanging around in some crappy garage with a Gold Crown in it or something like that!:)
 
I agree with what a lot of people are saying about these. Kind of cool looking, but none of these rooms are Pool focused. Really cold rooms and the table seems secondary to the large screen TVs, sitting areas etc.

I liked going through this forum's pictures of their own rooms, where the tables were the main focus.
 
The Piper said:
I agree with what a lot of people are saying about these. Kind of cool looking, but none of these rooms are Pool focused. Really cold rooms and the table seems secondary to the large screen TVs, sitting areas etc.

I liked going through this forum's pictures of their own rooms, where the tables were the main focus.
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What defines a pool focused room? A garage with a Diamond table in it? An unfinished basement with a GC in it? I must disagree with your statement as many of these tables are in a "pool focused room." Must one have a tapestry of Dogs Playing Poker on the wall for it to be considered a pool focused room?

IMHO its a lot harder to incorporate a pool table into your living room or dining room than dropping it in the middle of your basement and some of these folks have done a wonderful job incorporating billiards into THEIR lifestyle.

Please don't take my diatribe as a shot at you it just perplexes me that people come into this thread to bash owners of these tables by making statements like "they've got more money than brains", "I bet they play with house cues", or my personal favorite "no true pool player would be caught dead playing on one of those fancy tables."

When I first joined AZBilliards the mantra was that people wanted to see the game grow. But it appears that people only want to see the game grow in their own image and anyone that has a fancy table should leave the game. I guess I just don't get it.
 
Pool Focused Rooms

MDSPHOTO said:
What defines a pool focused room? QUOTE]

Good lighting combined with felt that wasn't chosen because it matches the drapes or the wife's newly covered ottoman. Racks that aren't made of rough bark to look cool but would destroy the racking area in one three hour session. Tile and concrete under a table, not unless your only choice is the garage. Floor to ceiling plate glass windows and it that a balcony railing? Balls do leave the table every once in a while. All of these rooms look really good......in an architectural digest but probably wouldn't make the back page of most pool mags. The key issue is they aren't practical. Give me a Diamond in a garage or a GC3 in a basement and yeah, I like a couple of trophies a bar and maybe a big screen. :smile:
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MDSPHOTO said:
What defines a pool focused room? A garage with a Diamond table in it? An unfinished basement with a GC in it? I must disagree with your statement as many of these tables are in a "pool focused room." Must one have a tapestry of Dogs Playing Poker on the wall for it to be considered a pool focused room?

IMHO its a lot harder to incorporate a pool table into your living room or dining room than dropping it in the middle of your basement and some of these folks have done a wonderful job incorporating billiards into THEIR lifestyle.

Please don't take my diatribe as a shot at you it just perplexes me that people come into this thread to bash owners of these tables by making statements like "they've got more money than brains", "I bet they play with house cues", or my personal favorite "no true pool player would be caught dead playing on one of those fancy tables."

When I first joined AZBilliards the mantra was that people wanted to see the game grow. But it appears that people only want to see the game grow in their own image and anyone that has a fancy table should leave the game. I guess I just don't get it.
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Focused meaning, that pool is the primary source of entertainment within the room. Typically this means that the furniture is pointed in the general direction of the table, and not the big screen TV, or the pinball tables, shuffleboard, air hockey etc.

If you look at a lot of these rooms, the table is a decoration and I doubt many of these rooms are billiards enthusiasts and rather people with money looking to add that extra feature to their entertainment room .
 
MDSPHOTO said:
... some of these folks have done a wonderful job incorporating billiards into THEIR lifestyle.
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I would argue that with only a couple of exceptions, none of these folks have done the above. The extent of their involvement was more likely the inclusion of a pool table on their interior designer's checklist coupled with their final approval of the design.

The pool tables in this thread, with a couple of exceptions, are an afterthought. Some of the cloth colors used would actually be difficulty to play on.

We have a 9' table in our home. It is not in the garage nor an unfinished basement, but in a nicely decorated 800sq ft room with proper lighting to allow for serious play. It includes two seating areas and other features, but the first thing that was laid-out was the table area.

To answer the question "What defines a pool focused room? ", that would be a room built around a table, a player's table, in which the room's features and components address the basic requirements of size, lighting, and comfort. Many of the rooms in this thread would easily meet those requirements with a table with different color cloth, a different table altogether, and/or proper lighting.
 
So then by your definitions of a "pool focused" room most the AZBilliard home rooms would not qualify as real pool rooms.

BTW: @Type79 I put you on ignore weeks ago because I tired of your constant negativity.
 
MDSPHOTO said:
So then by your definitions of a "pool focused" room most the AZBilliard home rooms would not qualify as real pool rooms.

BTW: @Type79 I put you on ignore weeks ago because I tired of your constant negativity.
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sure.... why not. Obviously you got a hard on for these rooms, so sure. these "pool rooms" are gorgeous and ooze billiards :rolleyes:
 
why the bickering? its obvious to everyone these are designer rooms that happen to have pool tables.....cant we just accept them for what they are and enjoy the pics?
 
michael4 said:
why the bickering? its obvious to everyone these are designer rooms that happen to have pool tables.....cant we just accept them for what they are and enjoy the pics?
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were all just jealous that we dont have the bank roll to make our own dream room with playing tables ,not furniture tables that still have the balls racked from when it was first installed that came with the table


at least I am
and I could probably make mine for half as much as one of these rooms cost of not less
 
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MDSPHOTO said:
Must one have a tapestry of Dogs Playing Poker on the wall for it to be considered a pool focused room?
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No, but it helps. :D

It's just that these rooms/tables remind me of a friend whose wife sent his Martin guitar to an "Artiste" to make it special (while he was out of town). The artist took a classic, wonderful-sounding Martin guitar (retail, $5,000) and turned it into a beautiful piece of junk; I've heard Sears guitars that sounded better.

Sure, it's their rooms and they can do anything they want with them. Doesn't mean I have to like it.
 
How about some more tables....I love this thread.

Let us complain a little.....we're pool players and we're picky.
....but it's a good thread.


pt...noticed some of those tables had cheap balls...I mean, like, WTF...
....do they play Pebble Beach with a drugstore golf ball? :eek:
 
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