Board Games

Board Games: Where Will the Set Live Daily?

From our experience, the biggest question is where your board games actually end up living once the novelty wears off. A luxury chess set or an Italian game chess board looks incredible when it has a proper home, on a coffee table, a console, or even a styled shelf with a few home accessories. Leave it floating around with no destination, and it turns into something you keep relocating (trust us, we’ve made that mistake). And if you plan to store it between uses, think about boxes, drawers, or storage baskets that you’ll actually reach for, because that part really does matter day to day.

Does Your Luxury Chess Set Fit the Table?

We’ve seen a lot of tables that technically fit a game board but feel cramped in real life, so take that for what it’s worth. A luxury chess set or a full Italian game chess layout needs breathing room, especially if you like keeping books, candles, or even luxury hand sanitizers nearby. On a larger coffee table, the board becomes an anchor, and yes, it’s noticeable in person. But on smaller tables, the wrong scale makes the whole setup feel squeezed, and we learned that the hard way.

Board Games in a Living Room vs Game Room

Game rooms can handle multiple board games at once, a big luxury chess set on one table, an Italian game chess setup on another, and the space still looks intentional. Living rooms are less forgiving, and the proportions matter more when sofas, lighting, and rugs all compete for attention. If experience has taught us anything, it’s that one beautifully crafted board can feel like a design moment on its own, especially as one of those luxury gifts for men that people actually use. And strangely enough, when the piece is well chosen, it feels like part of the aesthetic home decor instead of something that only comes out for game night.