Home Billiard Room Lighting

There are two to three different types of home billiard room lighting that you will likely want in your home billiard room. Besides the usual hanging billiard table light, you will need periphery lighting to illuminate the rest of the room. If you have a bar, a beverage table, or a section with other games set up you may want a third type of lighting specifically designed for these areas as well.

Home Billiard Room Lighting

Home billiard table lamps are specifically designed to spread illumination evenly across the table and eliminate distracting shadows. This includes the areas of the pool table bed directly under the cushions and the areas near the pockets. Your dealer can usually recommend the optimal wattage, and suggest the correct height over your table. The general rule of thumb for how low the billiard table lighting should hang is to have it level with the bridge of your nose. (Technical, I know.) Since billiard lamps come in a big variety of style and finishes, they can also play an integral role in your home billiard room decorating scheme.

You may want a different style of lighting over a home bar or beverage area. Some home bar owners keep a muted lighting style directly over the sitting area, but shine bright spotlighting or track lighting on the wall behind where the bartender would stand.

Besides the home billiard table light, and the bar lights, you will want the remainder of the room to have a reasonable, but not an overpowering degree of lighting. For this, many home billiard room owners opt for pot lights, which are normally recessed directly in to the ceiling.

One more thing to keep in mind when choosing a home billiard room lighting scheme, is that it can set the whole mood of the room, and can be an integral factor in determining the degree of enjoyment that is had.

Home Billiard Room Lighting

The home billiard room lighting article was posted on 9/24/2006 1:13:41 AM and updated on 9/24/2006 1:13:41 AM. The home billiard room lighting article was edited by Billiards Forum Editor.

Home Billiard Room Lighting

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