Seriously, I spent all that time redoing the basement, building a cool bar from old barn wood, I bought that beer sign online for way more than I should have spent, and finally when I invite friends over the first thing they do is lose the cueball from my new pooltable. Seriously, everyone stop doing what you're doing and help find it. That cueball has to be around here somewhere.

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Pool tables are one of those furniture pieces that has a look all about it that's hard to screw up -- even a beat-up short bar table has a certain soul to it. Here's a style I've never seen before: welded and riveted metal. Watch your knees or you're liable to experience an unusual billiards-related injury.