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Looking to get a Pro 8' table. (46x92 playing surface)

The current room is 12'2" x 15'10", but it has a 2 foot bump out.

I plan on extending the 12'2" by 7'8", so the new room would be ample size for every shot. (19'9 x 15'10) 21'9 where the bump out is...

I would love to also make this room into a "movie theater" room, I am just having a hard time coming up with the right layout of things.

This room also shares a wall with the kitchen, so I am trying to complicate things even more by adding a pantry to it...

oh, and there is a load bearing post I cant remove..

I found ways for everything to fit. but the room shape is awful looking, and is it really even possible to have a movie theater room looking over a pool table?

I made to scale a pool table (playing surface) with 60" around it to allow for all shots. i figured 30-36" for standing room around the table before furniture.

anyone have any ideas? option 1 looks good, but involves no home theater seating.

the theater seating is a 4 person 116" x 39" setup.

should i just sacrifice some rail shots at one end of the table rotate the table 90 degrees? (option 4)? there is a big 60" door opening that can open up if taking most of the rail shots, still some of the corner shots will require angleing the cue or shorter stick.

thanks
 

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do they make tables that slide over easily, or coasters/wheels that you can always set your table on?

how much room do you need to between table and low furniture (couch) to take any shot? 36"?
 
I like 4th from top. With a nice big corner sofa and no obstructions of the tv. Kind of works best for both tv and pool.
 
Pidge said:
I like 4th from top. With a nice big corner sofa and no obstructions of the tv. Kind of works best for both tv and pool.
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yea as far as look and functions its perfect, i just loose all the shots by the door, red circles are 60"
 

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One thing I discovered in now two moves into tight quarters -- it's real easy to think because furniture that is low is not in the way of the cue, that it is not in the way. For example a sofa. I was surprised how far back one foot goes in shooting. Even when it isn't actually in the way, just beyond where your foot lands, it still feels very claustrophobic when you are setting up the shot. So that 2nd one looks to me like it may be too close, even though there's likely plenty of room for cue stroke.

One possibility in terms of pantry space, depending on ceiling height, is to put in high cabinets around the room. Not convenient panty space, but if the ceiling is high enough it will not "feel" close, and it would let you use more space for... well, space.

Another possibility depending on type of construction and your appetite for work... take at the wall between the hall and the space. The area at the end of a pool table is basically empty space, it makes a good walkway (i.e. whatever the hall is for), but this lets you take an arrangement like #4 and put the table more to the left, fixing the problem in the last reply. Then instead of a sofa consider chairs that could be rearranged -- intruding on the table space for movies, moved to the walls for pool.
 
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Can you turn the table 90 degrees? Would that open up any more space?
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turning it 90 degrees has the corner shots well into the pantry/tv wall...

the red circles are 60" the blue one is 32" (is that a good enough space from coach to playing surface or do i need like 40?
 

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Linwood said:
One possibility in terms of pantry space, depending on ceiling height, is to put in high cabinets around the room. Not convenient panty space, but if the ceiling is high enough it will not "feel" close, and it would let you use more space for... well, space.
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they are 10' ceilings...

so you mean have the pantry basically open to the pool table room? and just hang the cabinets from the ceiling?

im not really able to picture this...



Linwood said:
Another possibility depending on type of construction and your appetite for work... take at the wall between the hall and the space. The area at the end of a pool table is basically empty space, it makes a good walkway (i.e. whatever the hall is for), but this lets you take an arrangement like #4 and put the table more to the left, fixing the problem in the last reply. Then instead of a sofa consider chairs that could be rearranged -- intruding on the table space for movies, moved to the walls for pool.
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its the foyer / front door to the house, so i cant go left :(
 
moneymm22 said:
they are 10' ceilings...

so you mean have the pantry basically open to the pool table room? and just hang the cabinets from the ceiling?

im not really able to picture this...
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Two possibilities. One is just about shared space...

I'm suggesting that putting up a pantry wall requires space inside for you to walk, making it expensive in terms of square feet. A pantry wall cabinet that's (say) 18" deep requires not 18" but 18" + maybe 36" to the wall for the human, so it's taking up 54" instead of 18" you can't use for pool (just making up numbers...).

If you were willing to have the 18" cabinet in the same room you get that space back.

So maybe you combine pantry space with cabinets a bit more compatible with the idea of a game room -- liquor cabinets, wine racks, dry bar space, hanging wine glasses etc. All these can be pretty thin, and look quite good in a game/movie space. You can even disguise some, e.g. a surrounding cabinet for the big screen so it's in a niche.

So just double up on the enclosed cabinets that you might use for such a bar-type setup, and use the enclosed cabinets for pantry space.

The other possibility is less likely to be useful but maybe... If your pantry storage needs are infrequent, i.e. this is stuff you only use a few times a month, you could put storage cabinets up high around one side. High enough and it might not "feel" so tight to the table. But it takes a step stool to access and it might not be very pretty.

But I think the idea of building a "super bar" with lots of storage, and sharing it for pantry, might prove interesting. Visually you would not know it's a pantry. Of course when you send a kid to fetch canola oil and they come back with vodka...
 
i think i got it!

a motorized projection screen...

the orange bar in the sketch, goes into the ceiling when not watching movies/playing pool.

gives me a pretty decent pantry 8' x8' with about 24 feet of shelve linear feet.

what do you think?

still leaves me with ONLY about 30"-32" of shooting space when by the theater seats. does anyone have a similar couch near their table, they can measure and tell me how much of an issue it is or not?

thanks
 

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With the ever increasing size and decreasing weight and cost of LED (and even OLED or QLED) screens, you will come pretty soon to regret a projection TV, not to mention you might reach a time when you can't even buy one.

But as to your drawing just put the chair on rollers or sliders and move the one adjacent to the blue problem area into the top left area when shooting pool. Or have two such chairs you can move.

Maybe instead of a projection screen an articulated wall mount where the TV can swing out but normally be flush to the wall?
 
Linwood said:
With the ever increasing size and decreasing weight and cost of LED (and even OLED or QLED) screens, you will come pretty soon to regret a projection TV, not to mention you might reach a time when you can't even buy one.

But as to your drawing just put the chair on rollers or sliders and move the one adjacent to the blue problem area into the top left area when shooting pool. Or have two such chairs you can move.

Maybe instead of a projection screen an articulated wall mount where the TV can swing out but normally be flush to the wall?
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good point. anyone else have a sofa or home theater seating on one side of the pool table and the screen on the other?
 
Can you essentially leave pantry as is, and put a clear span at the hall wall?
Get a sofa that rolls easily, set it in the hall when pool is happening. When movies are going on, move it up to watch over the table on the big screen.

Or are you hoping people can watch the screen at the same time pool is being committed?

I've come to the conclusion for my room that either i have to loose the hall wall, or the wall to the DR. Both would not be a bad option (in my case).

smt
 
Ssonerai said:
Can you essentially leave pantry as is, and put a clear span at the hall wall?
Get a sofa that rolls easily, set it in the hall when pool is happening. When movies are going on, move it up to watch over the table on the big screen.

Or are you hoping people can watch the screen at the same time pool is being committed?

I've come to the conclusion for my room that either i have to loose the hall wall, or the wall to the DR. Both would not be a bad option (in my case).

smt
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Def don’t want to be using hall at all.

Ideally the screen would be used during pool as well.
 
Does anyone have seating set up on one side of pool table with the TV on the other?

How far is safe enough away to put an aquarium by to a pool table, I know balls fly off at times, but in general just within a foot or two of the table correct?
 
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