Level Up Your Game Room: Essential Furniture and Space Requirements

This is an ultimate guide about the actual space you need to keep around your pool table, air hockey, or whichever table you picked up for your game room furniture. It'll go over how much space you need to allow for the games themselves and how to use the space around the table to its full potential.

This article will give you a few ways to make your game room feel larger without sacrificing game table space–enjoy! 

What's the Space Needed for a Ping Pong Table?

While smaller models are available, a full-size ping-pong table will be five feet wide by nine feet long. So right off the bat, you’re looking at a massive space commitment. Ping-pong (outside of the pool) is also the most demanding of the space around it.

It is best to allow at least sixteen inches of space on your ping pong table (on both sides) for each person playing. Without this space, players won’t be able to play comfortably and to their fullest ability.

What's the Space Needed for a Pool Table?

The amount of space needed for a pool table will depend entirely on the style and make of the table itself, but the consensus is that you will need a minimum of 8' x 4' (72" x 36") to play pool comfortably.

However, the reality is that you will need much more space than that. From lining up your shot just right to getting perspective on the whole table, you need to be able to move freely around your table as well as lean against as appropriate. To be safe, assume the pool table will take up half of the room itself. 

Shuffleboard Tables 101: Your Complete Guide to the Game

All kinds of sports have their variations. Shuffleboard is no different, it's a game where two players try to move their pieces from one end of the board to the other by sliding them across the surface on disks called pucks and getting them into specific parts of the board that are worth different points values. Its variation, which is table shuffleboard, is also commonly played just as fervently as the original sport.

As the name suggests, shuffleboard is played with on a special table made for the game. Shuffleboard tables can be made from a variety of materials but the best are made from a combination of high-quality woods, metals, and finishes. Higher-quality tables provide better gameplay and a longer life for the table itself.

This article will discuss everything there is to know about shuffleboard tables. Read on below to get started.

The Ideal Table Size

Table Shuffleboards

Table shuffleboard tables are usually around four feet long, two feet wide, and 18 to 24 inches high.

The dimensions are there because they are recommended by the United States Table Shuffleboard Association (USSSA), the governing body of table shuffleboard. Since each player's table should have the exact measurements, you'll want to stick to these dimensions for the sake of fairness.

Beyond that, there are also other sizes of shuffleboard tables. These are:

8 Foot Shuffleboard Table

This is the smallest size possible.