Pool Table Lights Getting Started

Posted By Sue on May 12, 2009

Pool tables complement game rooms, dens, and family rooms.  Good lighting is necessary for a pool table.  While lamps and overhead lights brighten the room itself, the table top area is clouded by the player’s shadow.  The right pool table lights eliminate these shadows.  Also, they may prevent angle shots  and complex plays from going sour.

Every room in a home possesses a particular ambiance.  Kitchens shine with bright colors.  Sun rooms radiate with outdoor light.  Game rooms and dens however have a different aura.  People often envision pool or billiard tables as part of pubs, night clubs or saloons.  Despite their lackluster, hazy atmosphere, people frequently gathered together as a way to unwind at the end of the day.  Good lighting for a pool table in these places was just as essential as it is now in dens and game rooms.

When the tone of a room has been set, a person then focuses on the lighting.  Pool table lights should evenly illuminate the playing area.  Generally, these are one-light to four-light arrangements.  Five inches of light fixture should be allotted for every twelve inches of table length.  The lights should be suspended with thirty-six inches of space between the bed of the pool table and the bottom of the light fixture.

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