By Travis Neighbor Ward
Are there any rules when it comes to decorating a billiard room? Do you have to limit it to billiard-related objects? We asked six designers who have created home billiard rooms what they would put in their own ideal room, had they no limit to budget or space. Here's what they said.
RONALD BRICKE, RONALD BRICKE & ASSOCIATES 333 East 69th Street, New York, NY 10021; 212-472-9006. "I love reading. I'd like a cozy place to escape to on rainy days." That's why his room-aside from soft lighting, a fireplace, and wing chairs with drop-leaf center table-would include lots of books. And "a piece of sculpture-something like a Noguchi." LYN
HUTCHINGS, HUTCHINGS-LYLE, INC. 255 East 72nd Street, New York, NY 10021; 212-288-2729. "I'd like a club-like setting, but with something to give the room whimsy and take away from the seriousness." So, as well as traditional green and leather, she'd add carpeting "to unify the room and make it appear larger and more inviting," and a 1950s jukebox.
NOEL JEFFREY, NOEL JEFFREY, INC. 215 East 58th Street, New York, NY 10022; 212-935-7775. "It should be an intimate room, quite dark with a lot of light on the table itself." His theme: mahogany and mohair. Dark-green flannel walls with green-fringed sconces, mahogany paneling and Venetian blinds, overstuffed mohair sofas and draperies. "And antique photos of New York City, around the year 1900."
GARY KEALEY, DESIGNS FOR LEISURE 41 Kensico Drive, Mount Kisco, NY 10549; 914-241-4500. "My son and I are really into basketball," says Kealey, which is why his room would include not only mahogany walls, forest-green upholstered chairs, video games, and a backgammon-chess table but a pro hoop.
LYNNE PRAGER, LYNNE M. PRAGER INTERIORS 19 Queen Anne Drive, Deal, NJ 07723; 732-531-0460. "I like natural light and want a room with a light feeling." Her "game room in a living room setting" would incorporate medium tones, sycamore walls, large windows, and sheer drapery. "And a Picasso, because it has very strong movement."
MARSHALL WATSON, MARSHALL WATSON INTERIORS 105 West 72nd Street, Suite 913, New York, NY 10023; 212-664-8094. "1 like darkness in a pool room, and Scottish baronial. They always seem to go well together." Watson envisions his billiard room-part of a magnificent English countryside estate-with stone walls, a two-story, peaked wooden ceiling, and bay windows overlooking 255 acres of virgin meadows cascading down to the ocean. Plus, he says, "there'd be an enormous stone Tudor-esque fireplace-the kind that you could walk into."
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