You might have to cash in more than just a few chips to pay for the new must-have for the upscale home.
Fancy poker tables are the latest home entertainment accessory, and if you can’t maintain your poker face when you see their price tags – well, then, you obviously have never experienced how the other half loses.
At Halter Pool Tables in New Haven, you can cast your gaze on a California House table in solid cherry that offers a carved pedestal and edge for $3,485 – plus $1,000 apiece for the upholstered roll-about club chairs.
At Ace Game Room Gallery in Fort Wayne, a Mikhail Darafeev solid maple table with leather cup holders and chip insets plus six chairs will run you about $6,100.
And at Fort Wayne’s Tredway Pools Plus, you might peruse catalogs for one of Vitale’s custom tables, which start at about $4,500.
“They do our very highest-end tables,” says Adam Rudolph, Tredway’s poker table specialist, who adds that those buying Vitale custom tables can choose from about 25 woods and stains and dozens of colors and styles of leather and fabric for the tops and chairs.
“They’re really quite extreme,” he says of Vitale’s offerings. “But when you see one of their tables, well, they just sell themselves.”
Indeed, several of the interior designers at this year’s trendy Parade of Homes, sponsored by the Home Builders Association of Fort Wayne, were sold on poker tables, using them to help showcase the daylight basements in the decidedly mansion-like homes on display through Oct. 2. The homes feature the tables in the large recreation/game/entertainment/theater rooms that make up the homes’ lower levels.
Liz Poyser, Halter’s assistant manager, says in the real world of her business, pool tables still outsell poker tables by about 10 to 1. But she doesn’t think poker tables are a fad. For one thing, she says, some of them are actually practical – that cherry number is what those in the trade call a three-in-one, which means that the poker side flips over, turning into a solid cherry dining tabletop.
“And a rather nice dining room table at that,” she says, noting that some buyers have even put a poker table in their formal dining room or dining nook.
There’s even a third use. In the hollow of the table top there’s a bumper pool table surface. The hollow also can be used to store poker or other supplies.
“A lot of people are spending more time at home. So they’re making it so that when they are at home, they’re able to have fun,” Poyser says.
Chad Shelton of Chadwick Designs in Fort Wayne doesn’t think poker tables are a fad, either. Indeed, he’s staking a good part of his business on them.
Source : The Journal Gazette
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