Play makes our homes special. From horsing around with our families to experimenting with design to laughing around the dining room table with friends, play brings joy into our spaces and lives. But ...

Mt. Holly has tons of mysteries in Blue Prince, but few of them beat the early-game challenges of the dartboard puzzle in the Billiard Room. It's not really required if you want to reach the elusive ...

Before Monique Lafia and Chris Arvin redesigned this Beverly Hills, Calif., billiard room, it was not exactly functional. “There was no room to shoot pool, and it would have been a less-than-ideal ...

A century-old pool table that has taken its turn from a pool hall to a couple of private homes is now the centerpiece in the basement game room of Rob and Barb Watson of Springfield. The 4 1/2- by ...

Don’t call it a man cave, because it isn’t. Carl Herkes is not even a pool shark, nor is he a barfly. The billiards room addition to the front of his Trabuco Canyon home was designed for entertaining.

To transform an obsolete formal living room into a space for entertaining for a family with three teenage boys, when the home already had a very large family room. This Ho-Ho-Kus billiards room ...

Gone are the days when pool, Ping-Pong, dartboards, and the like were afterthoughts, relegated to an unfinished basement or stuck in an extra, unloved room. Even as designers have re-branded ...

It’s like something from a children’s mystery book—a hidden wooden door, which leads you down stone steps and into a boat for a short underground row to two large doors—and then, into the cavernous ...

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In Blue Prince's Mt. Holly, the Billiard Room's dartboard puzzle presents an optional but rewarding challenge. Solving these math-based puzzles, which involve color-coded operations and unique symbols ...