The Chic Pool Journal
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Chicpool's dining pool table combines a regulation playing surface with the proportions of a formal dining table, set here beneath a tiered crystal chandelier in a private dining room. The tray ceiling and crown moulding define the space above, while a large abstract canvas in gray and silver tones hangs on the wall behind the table, echoing the marbled pattern of the tabletop below.
The table's surface finish reflects the tones of the artwork and the area rug beneath it, keeping the room's palette consistent throughout. LED lighting traces the rails and base, cycling between blue and violet, and reflects across the polished wood flooring. A curved wooden staircase with wrought iron balusters borders one side of the room, and a wall-mounted fireplace, its flame set to violet to match the table lighting, sits along the opposite wall. The table is built on a three-piece slate bed under tournament-grade cloth, with a solid wood and metal frame and hydraulic leg components that allow the surface to convert between dining and billiards use. Finish colors are available across a wide range at no added cost, allowing the table to be matched to an existing room rather than requiring the room to be built around it. The chairs surrounding the table are black leather with white piping, lit along their base to align with the table's lighting. The homeowners who commissioned the piece report that guests are consistently drawn to the table on sight, and that it has become a regular gathering point for family and friends. They describe the process of working with the company's team, from order through installation, as smooth and well handled throughout.
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Dark wood, deep grain, corners squared off with a weight that says permanence rather than showroom polish. The table sits low and solid on the room's oversized area rug, its burgundy felt pulled taut beneath a dining top resting just above it, the whole piece anchored by a room that was clearly built around it rather than the other way around. Cream walls, warm wood flooring, plantation shutters filtering soft daylight through three tall windows. Table and room read as one composition, not two separate elements sharing a floor.
The room does real work here. A large abstract cityscape painting, blues and violets against the neutral wall, gives the space a focal point that doesn't compete with the table so much as complement its darker tones. An orchid sits centered on the dining top, its pale bloom a quiet counterpoint to the deep burgundy beneath it. To the side, a freestanding cue rack holds a full set of sticks and balls, practical and displayed rather than tucked away, a sign this table gets used as much as it's admired. The construction itself follows the same quality found across the line: solid wood and metal framing, three piece slate beneath the cloth, tournament grade felt built for real play rather than display. The rails carry the same dark finish as the legs, unbroken and clean, with drop pockets stitched in a matching tone so the whole base reads as a single material rather than a table with hardware bolted on. As one recent owner in California put it, the wood of the table is so beautiful, and praised the installer's work getting it into the room just right. What makes this particular setup work is the layering. The dining top sits above the playing surface, clean lined and finished to match the base below it, so the table shifts easily between a game table and a dining table without looking like a compromise in either direction. The rug beneath it, patterned in burgundies and warm neutrals, echoes the felt above and ties the whole floor of the room back into the table's palette. The table's life doesn't stop at furniture. On quieter days, the household cat claims the wood as its own patch of sun. On louder ones, a green martini sits at the rail's edge while friends and family gather around, cue sticks in hand, the room filling with the kind of noise that only comes from people enjoying each other's company. The whole scene is like a dance, moving in tune to the sounds and steps of the occasion. The table moves easily between both moods, holding its own whether it's dressed for a dinner party or standing in for the night's game. The result is a room where nothing feels like an afterthought. The painting sets a tone, the orchid softens it, the cue rack keeps things honest about how the table actually gets used, and the table itself holds the center of the room the way a good piece of furniture should, equally at home hosting a dinner or a night of pool with friends. At dusk, when the windows turn the color of the sky outside them, the table seems to hold the whole skyline in its glass. Floor-to-ceiling panes wrap the room, and the Simply table sits just inside that wall of glass, its own surface acting almost as a second window. Red cloth glows beneath the clear top, catching the last orange light of evening on one side and the cool white of office towers on the other. The table doesn't compete with the view. It repeats it.
The setting is a high-rise interior, open and unornamented, where the architecture does most of the talking through glass and steel. Against that backdrop, the table's own frame reads as a natural extension of the room rather than an addition to it. White upholstered chairs, chosen for their own quiet minimalism, complete the grouping without pulling attention from either the table or the towers beyond it. What makes the pairing work is proportion. The glass top sits low and level, its red felt visible but never loud, so the eye moves easily from tabletop to window and back again. By evening, the surface holds the amber and white of a lit skyline, the reflections shifting with every lit window across the street. Few pieces of furniture change character so completely between afternoon and evening, and fewer still do it while remaining fully functional as a dining or game table. Beneath the glass, the build is made for permanence: solid wood and metal construction with a three piece slate foundation, topped with tournament grade cloth suited to real play. The glass dining top rests over that felt bed, letting the color read as a design element in its own right rather than something hidden beneath a solid surface. Here, a clear top was the right call. It lets the view do the work while the table simply frames it. As one owner in Georgia put it, this table is so modern and looks great day and night. That assessment holds up against the room itself. Whether lit by a sunset skyline or the interior glow of the space at night, the table doesn't ask to be the center of attention. It simply belongs where it's been placed, day or night alike.
The table sits before a wall of glass, and Lake Tahoe does most of the introducing. Late light moves across the water outside while, inside, a smoked glass surface returns a quieter version of the same glow, catching the last color of the sky and holding it flat against the tabletop like a second horizon.
The room around it is spare: a stone fireplace, pale walls, a scattering of low furniture that does not compete for attention, all of it arranged to keep the eye moving toward the view. Against that restraint, the table's steel frame reads as sculpture first and furniture second, its thin profile catching light the way a well-placed piece of art might in a gallery with too much empty wall. "It fit our decor," the homeowners said of the table's presence in the room. "Super thin, slim, super modern."
Set for dinner, the table gives no visual hint of its second identity. White place settings, stemware, and candlelight sit across a surface finished dark enough to mirror the room without competing with it. The mountains across the water hold their color long after the light has gone flat everywhere else, and the glass wall behind the table frames that fading color the way a window frames a painting, so that the table below feels staged rather than simply placed. Even the chairs pull their tone from the water outside, a deep blue-green that echoes the lake rather than the room.
This is the Simply, a table built to move between two lives without ever looking like it is choosing sides. Underneath the dinner setting is a full pool table, and the shift between the two is the piece's quiet trick: nothing about the dining arrangement gives away what waits beneath it. The frame is steel, finished in a lacquered powder coat, and the whole assembly, top and cushion together, comes in at just 7 centimeters thick, thin enough that the table reads as light even at close to half a ton. A three-piece Brazilian slate forms the playing bed underneath, chosen for the accuracy and roll consistency competitive play requires, paired with a cushion system built to keep rebound predictable. The cloth and bumpers are built to a competition standard, and the balls included with the table are Belgian-made, a detail in keeping with the table's overall attention to material. Wood rails run the table's perimeter, softening the industrial line of the steel frame and giving the hand something warmer to rest against than the metal around it. Pockets follow the same minimalist logic as the rest of the design, cut narrow enough to stay visually quiet against the tabletop, built with just enough depth to hold a full rack of balls during play. Customization runs deep, though the table in this room keeps things simple: a matte steel frame, wood rails, and a glass dining top that lets the lake do most of the visual work. The frame itself can be finished in nearly any color, matte or glossy, or in a wood stain if a painted look isn't wanted. Legs come in steel or wood, with wood legs opening up the option of hydraulic height adjustment. The dining top can run to painted or stained wood, an exotic veneer, or glass in clear, frosted, or enameled finishes. Two sizes are offered, at roughly 90 by 51 inches and 100 by 56 inches on the outside, with playing height set at the regulation 30 inches and dining height at 31. For the homeowners, working through that many choices was made easy: they were "given all the choices, different options," down to felt colors sent so they could see them in real life before committing. The table needed to fit a dining room they use only a handful of times a year, and everything else needed to work as well as it looked. The install, they said, was "seamless, very easy," and the table itself has become the room's daily draw: "Friends and family come over now every day, so we have ongoing pool tournaments," far outpacing the handful of times the dining set underneath it actually gets used. What the photograph argues, more than any list of specifications could, is fit: a room built around restraint and a view, holding a table built on the same idea, one that lets a dinner party and a game night share the same square footage without either one asking the room to compromise. |