There are three things to keep in mind when you are creating your home billiard room. First of all, don't put the foot rail side of the table (the side on which you rack the balls) in front of any windows, computers, television sets, or stereo equipment. It is not unusual, especially on a break shot, for the cue ball or object balls to fly off the table. Both at home and in a billiard hall, make sure there is no one standing by the foot rail on a break shot. Being hit with a ball made of phenolic resin, or polyester for that matter, is not only painful, but dangerous, too. It is also a good idea to put carpeting in your billiard room because those hard balls could damage your floor, and your hard floor could damage the balls.

Cleaning the balls will also be necessary from time to time. After all, the balls are rolling around on your dusty table. You can clean the ball with special billiard-ball cleaners, but a little Windex or other conventional glass cleaner will also do the trick.

Some people recommend that you wax your object balls every so often — that's fine, but don't use just any kind of wax, make sure you use special billiard-ball wax. Billiard-ball wax is made with the object balls and the care of your table's cloth in mind. Using a generic wax may cause the balls to mark the cloth.