Design a Pool Table Room

A pool room should be a comfortable place to play pool where one can move about freely. A pool room can be set up in a number of ways to capitalize on certain elements, including natural light, views, available space, as well as the pre-existing home's construction. Learning to design a pool room is a simple as having a pencil, some pieces of paper and a scale or ruler. Does this Spark an idea?

Draw a Plan

Draw a floor plan. Think of a plan as if it were cutting through the middle of the wall on the ground floor. The plan is a view from above of the layout of your walls, floor and movement patterns. Draw to scale. Include the measurements of the length and width of your walls using a scale or ruler. Next, draw the pool table in the plan, from above, using the correct dimensions of the table. The absolute minimum size for a pool table room would be 12 by 16 feet. A larger and more comfortable size would be around 20 by 30 feet. Draw the basic rectangular shape of the room and any of its corridors or closets into your existing house plan to scale. Use tracing paper to design the room.

If you are putting an addition onto the house, use the separately drawn floor plan of your house to relate the new room to your house in scale. This also helps to make sure the new room is added in the most appropriate place.

Draw Sections and Elevations

When a wall is drawn from the inside of a house it is called a section. A section should cut a room in half down the middle. It should show the wall standing upright in two dimensions.

If the room is new construction, decide where the closets and windows will go. Natural lighting can bring an added dimension to the room. Use a skylight to let in more light. Windows may take a variety of rectangular shapes and positions on your wall.

An elevation is what the room or house looks like from the outside. An elevation is also two-dimensional and shows the wall from the outside standing upright. On the elevation, match the outside wall treatment, or faade, to the home's existing faade in most cases. Draw with a ruler using lines to draw openings, doors and patterns which represent the style of wall treatment. These drawings will help you visualize the appearance of the pool room.

Design the Interior

Decide what the walls will look like. Use a unique approach such as hardwood walls, interesting wallpaper, a preferred paint color or a combination of these. Decide on the dcor of the room. Sometimes, themes help. Here are some types of themes that would work well in a pool room: Southwestern, bar-ish, contemporary using interesting wallpaper, minimalist, psychedelic, nature, Caribbean, African, Oriental or artistic. Use a combination of new items and things that you already have as decorations for the new room. Match colors. There are colors that naturally work well together. Find interesting furniture that suits the mood. An elevated table with bar stools assists in the fluidity of the act of playing pool. Draw the furniture to scale into the floor plan. Make notes on the section of certain wall treatment preferences. All that is needed for the interior decor planning is a floor plan and a section showing each wall.