To stop your wall looking like its been attacked by a miniature machine gun and to keep the darts room looking presentable, you need a dart board cabinet for your dart board. They look so good these days too, the choice is extensive, and you can surely find one that suits your taste from the many on sale. You could just go for a dart backboard instead, but nothing beats a good-looking cabinet, especially if you are stuck for space and use the dining room as a part time darts room.

The advantages of a dart board cabinet is that it tidies the dart board away making the place look neat and tidy and it is also a place to store away your darts equipment. Also most of them have a chalk score board or dry wipe board on the doors for scoring. The cabinets for the electronic dart boards are bigger to accommodate the larger boards, and often have extra storage to put your dart supplies like extra soft tips and flights etc. And of course with the cabinet doors open the cabinet protects your wall from those wild darts that go astray from time to time especially when you have just come back with the "boys" from the bar or pub and fancy a game of darts to finish the evening with.

The cabinets come in all colors and styles and are usually made from solid wood and are beautifully finished and varnished, some even have inlays in the doors making the cabinet look a thing of beauty when the doors are closed. They can be a desirable piece of furniture on their own even without the dart board. There is a metal cabinet from Harley Davidson would you believe, with diamond plate doors and a chrome trim, looks very cool if you like that sort of thing, but use heavy duty screws when mounting that one.

For steel tip darting I would recommend lining the back of the cabinet with either dense foam or carpet as often the back of the cabinets are just bare wood and would show the dart holes eventually, but it depends how deep the cabinet is, make sure you can still close the doors after you put the carpet in, test it first.

So all in all you should get a dart board cabinet to keep the games room looking good when not playing, and to protect the wall when you are playing as well as some storage place to keep your darts equipment.

By Steve Porter a keen darts enthusiast. Click the link to see some dart board cabinets