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Where to start! First of all, you might have a choice of locations in your home as to where you would like to spend time playing and practicing your billiards game.
A patio room or a lower-level room with a walkout to the backyard or outdoor patio would be awesome. A main level room could be an option since most houses have a living room and a family room. Personally I'd rather have a billiards table in a room than use it for just sitting around. The best is a nice big open living space with a kitchen/bar, a family room, and billiards room, all three open to each other. For one thing, any of these choices would make transporting the slates for the billiards table easier than going up or down a flight of stairs.
However, the basement seems to always be the first place people think of when planning to set up a billiards room in their home. Three important questions to ask: Is there a bathroom down there? If you have kids will they ever see you again because you're always in the basement and how will you be able to monitor them from there? Is the cement floor well padded and carpeted for hours of walking around the pool table? This may be the only place in your house you have an extra room and it could be a very good choice. A couple of good reasons would be privacy for serious practice or having fun with your friends and not blasting out the neighbors with your loud music.
The size of the room will dictate several things, the size of your billiards table, the length of billiards cue you will be able to use, what room you have for seating (which might be best utilized with billiards and bar stools), and where your electronics will go. You will need a TV/DVD player to play your instructional and fun pool billiards videos, a stereo, and karaoke machine (I had one in my billiards room).
Other billiards equipment you will need to have is a billiards light, a rack for your billiards cues and a place to keep your other billiards accessories. There are many other cool items to decorate your new room with such as billiards posters and art work (like a picture of dogs playing pool), clocks, a chalk board for keeping score and of course your favorite sports team's memorabilia. And depending on where you're at with your game, you might need a shelf for your pool trophies!
How you want your home billiards room is up to you, all I know for sure is the great times I had with friends and family in my basement pool room and the many hours I was able to spend working on my billiards game skills. So go for it and don't wait, if you have a room you can put a pool table in, start planning and soon you'll be enjoying your own billiards room in your own home as soon as possible!
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