Hasta La Ideas

Recreational furniture is one of the more unusual subsets of furniture design, but it’s apparently one that people will pay good money for, judging by the plethora of flip-top gaming tables on the market. Up above you see Hammacher Schlemmer’s Rotating Air Hockey to Billiards Table, a 350-pound behemoth with a built-in blower for the air hockey side. Flip the surface over and you’re set up for pocket billiards (though at seven feet in length, you’re not exactly in Minnesota Fats’ playground).

This competing table at Hayneedle has HS beat by one game, as they’ve got table tennis (again, truncated at seven feet) on top of the first two games. Literally on top of them; what a difference a piece of MDF makes, huh?

That lousy giraffe that runs Toys R Us also sells a 3-in-1 gaming table, albeit a tiny one at just four feet in length.

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