ABSTRACT
In city houses billiard-rooms used to be in the basement, but, as other rooms, they are tending upward. The essentials of a billiard room are few, but imperative. The decorations should be appropriately virile. One of the handsomest billiard-rooms in a country villa is in oak, with oakstudded ceiling. The matting may be used as wainscoting, carried up to a deep frieze. The frieze may be green or blue, suitable tints being found in ingrain papers. White and gold billiard-tables have been made as special orders and dainty enough for a boudoir. Length, height, and balance are in these the important considerations. The wood proper is ash, finished with leather tips which are made by French peasants. The coverings of the seats should be of leather or rush plaited. Pottery and pewter, the silver and glass of the billiard-room cupboard, should reflect hardy masculine tastes.
