How to Customize Your Gaming Piece: A Designer’s Guide

Design beyond the game. Create a piece made for the space.


At Belle Meade Signature, we approach gaming furniture through both a design and technical lens—giving designers the freedom to explore dimensions, materials, finishes, and details while ensuring that the elements essential to gameplay, structure, and long-term performance are carefully engineered.

Whether you are customizing a billiard table, shuffleboard, game table, or table tennis table, you can begin with an existing BMS design and make it your own—or bring us an entirely new concept.

Here is a guide to what you can customize, what requires technical consideration, and how BMS helps bring the two together.
                                                                                                                                                                                     

What Can You Customize?

Many of the visual elements of a BMS gaming piece can be tailored to complement the surrounding interior. Certain functional components, however, must follow game-specific requirements or be reviewed by our team.

Customization  Billiard Table  Shuffleboard Game Table Table Tennis
Overall Dimensions  ✓* ✓*  ✓* Fixed*
Wood Species & Finish 
Stone / Specialty Materials 
Metal Finish & Details 
Leather /
Upholstered Details
Base / Leg Design  ✓* ✓* ✓* ✓*
Exterior / Apron Design 
Playing Surface Color /
Finish
✓* ✓*
Cup Holders / Accessories 
Dining Top Option 
3-in-1 Configuration 
Playing Area Dimensions  Fixed* Fixed* Varies by Game*
Fixed*
Internal Game Mechanics  Fixed* Fixed* Fixed* Fixed*

✓ Customizable | — Not Applicable | * Subject to technical review

Customization Without Compromising Performance

While materials, finishes, proportions, and exterior details offer extensive creative flexibility, certain playing dimensions, structural components, and game-specific details must meet technical requirements to ensure proper performance, stability, and long-term durability.

That balance between creative freedom and technical precision is where our expertise comes in.
                                                                                                                                                                                     

Billiard Tables

Designed Around the Room, Engineered for the Game

A billiard table often becomes one of the largest visual elements in an entertainment room. Instead of treating it as standalone gaming equipment, BMS allows designers to approach it as a piece of furniture that belongs within the overall interior.

Start with one of BMS gaming designs and reinterpret it through a different wood finish, stone, metal, leather, acrylic, specialty veneer, or other distinctive material—or work with us
to develop a new exterior concept.

Selected designs can also incorporate a coordinating Dining Top, allowing the table to transition between gaming and entertaining.

Behind the customized exterior, however, precision matters.

Slate support, frame construction, rail geometry, cushion positioning, pocket placement, playing proportions, and leveling all influence the performance of a billiard table. Our team evaluates these elements throughout the design and development process to make sure customization does not compromise the game.

                                                                                                                                                                                     

Shuffleboards

Make the Longest Piece in the Room Count

From sculptural bases and distinctive wood finishes to metal, leather, stone, and other specialty materials, the exterior can be designed to coordinate with surrounding furniture—or intentionally become a statement piece of its own.

At the center of every shuffleboard is its playing surface. Flatness, stability, proportion, construction, and the relationship between the playing surface and surrounding cradle all directly influence gameplay.

Length and proportion can also be tailored to the available space, with our team carefully reviewing all functional requirements to ensure the customized design maintains proper performance and structural integrity.

The result is a piece that looks intentional within the room while still performing exactly as it should.

                                                                                                                                                                                     

Game Tables

One Piece, Multiple Ways to Play

Game Tables offer exceptional flexibility for spaces designed around entertaining.

Materials, finishes, bases, leather details, playing surfaces, cup holders, and other accessories can all become part of the design. Depending on the project, the table can feel traditional, contemporary, understated, or completely unexpected.

BMS Game Tables can also support a versatile 3-in-1 design, seamlessly transitioning between:

Poker · Bumper Pool · Dining

Rather than dedicating valuable space to one activity, a thoughtfully designed Game Table can adapt throughout the day—from dining to entertaining to play.

Because each game introduces different functional requirements, our team carefully coordinates playing areas, bumper locations, cup holders, accessories, removable tops,  clearances, and structural support.

You choose how the piece should look and how you want to use it. We help determine how to make it work.

                                                                                                                                                                                     

Table Tennis

Recreation, Reimagined as Furniture

A Table Tennis Table does not have to look like traditional sports equipment.

Through customized bases, materials, finishes, edge details, and architectural elements, BMS can transform the familiar form into a sophisticated furniture piece suited for a luxury game room, entertainment space, or multifunctional interior.

The playing surface itself, however, requires greater precision.

Dimensions, height, flatness, stability, and performance characteristics all affect the quality of play. For this reason, these elements remain technically controlled while designers have greater creative freedom over the components that define the table visually.

It is a different way of thinking about recreational furniture:

Keep the game. Redesign everything around it.

                                                                                                                                                                                     

From Your Vision to a Finished Piece

Professional Guidance at Every Step

Complete customization does not mean changing every component without limitation.

Successful gaming furniture requires an understanding of what can change, what should remain precise, and how the two work together.

That is why BMS is involved throughout the entire development process.

01 — Concept & Inspiration

Begin with an existing BMS design and make the changes your project requires—or start from scratch.

Share your inspiration images, sketches, preferred materials, dimensions, interior palette, or simply an idea. Our team can help determine the next step.

02 — Design & Material Development

Together, we explore the elements that define the piece visually—from proportions and materials to finishes, colors, bases, and decorative details.

Our extensive material capabilities allow designers to explore combinations of wood, stone, metal, leather, acrylic, specialty veneers, decorative finishes, and more.

And you are not limited to the standard options shown inour collection.


03 — Technical Review & Production Drawings

This is where design meets engineering.

Our team reviews the proposed structure, proportions, game mechanics, and functional requirements, providing recommendations where needed.

The concept is then translated into detailed production drawings so the design can move confidently from an idea into manufacturing.


04 — Craftsmanship & Production

Once approved, the piece moves into production.

Materials, joinery, construction, finishing, and details are carefully executed to ensure the final piece reflects the original design intent while meeting structural and functional requirements.

05 — Quality Control

Our work does not stop when production is complete.

Each custom gaming piece is carefully reviewed for appearance, craftsmanship, structure, and functionality before completion.

From drawing board to finished piece, every detail is carefully considered.
                                                                                                                                                                                     

Beyond Billiards, Shuffleboards, Game Tables & Table Tennis

Have Another Game in Mind?

Customization does not stop with our core gaming categories.

BMS also welcomes inquiries for other specialty gaming furniture, including Mahjong Tables, Foosball Tables, and other custom gaming concepts.

Perhaps you want a Mahjong Table that looks like a sophisticated dining table when it is not being used. Or a Foosball Table designed with materials that coordinate with the rest of a luxury entertainment room.


The process can begin in the same way.

Start with one of our designs. Modify an existing concept. Or bring us something entirely new.

Our team will evaluate the design, structure, and game requirements and work with you to
find the right path from concept to production.
                                                                                                                                                                                     

Create Your Signature Gaming Piece

Gaming furniture should not dictate the design of a room. It should become part of it.

Whether that means changing the proportions of an existing BMS piece, introducing an unexpected material, creating a multifunctional design, or developing an entirely new gaming concept, our goal is to give designers greater creative freedom without sacrificing the technical details that make the piece work.

Your vision sets the direction. Our expertise brings it to life.

Ready to create something unique? Explore BMS Custom Gaming and start your project with us.