A Monopoly game board is actually very pretty, and so is a Scrabble board!  I painted both sides of a 22″ X 22″ piece of wood which was custom cut by the client to fit a table that originally came with a two sided insert of chess board/Backgammon designs .  I simplified the two games as far as I could without affecting the play of the games.  I added a little visual texture to the flat colors that are in the commercial designs, giving my version something special.