Before Monique Lafia and Chris Arvin redesigned this Beverly Hills, Calif., billiard room, it was not exactly functional. “There was no room to shoot pool, and it would have been a less-than-ideal ...

Gone are the days when pool, Ping-Pong, dartboards, and the like were afterthoughts, relegated to an unfinished basement or stuck in an extra, unloved room. Even as designers have re-branded ...

If there’s one thing that stands out about old pool halls and billiard rooms, it’s the way they came alive after dark. The lights were dim, the air thick with smoke, and the crack of cue balls bounced ...