Best Dartboard Cabinets of 2026

This is the cheapest complete set here, and it is the one we hand to somebody who wants a real board without paying for trim. An 18-inch regulation sisal board sits behind a heavy steel spider, a black cabinet closes over it, and the box also holds six steel-tip darts, chalk, an eraser, and built-in holders for the darts.

What you give up is on the outside, and we think that is the right order of sacrifice. Sisal is the part that wears and gets replaced; the box is the part that hangs there for a decade. Nothing about this one feels precious, which is exactly why we like it in a garage, a basement, or a room where kids throw.

Hang this one and the wall reads as a pub. The cabinet is black with wide doors that carry the scoreboards, and the 18-inch board behind them is the size used in league play, so nobody has to adjust their aim to a small practice face.

Six steel-tip darts, two chalk scoreboards and built-in storage come in the box, and the mounting kit includes a paper template that does most of the work of getting it level. At 23 pounds it feels like furniture once it is up, and the doors line up squarely when they close.

The reservation we keep is about the board rather than the cabinet. Heavy play shows on the face sooner than it does on our top pick's, so a household playing a few nights a month is fine while daily practice will want a denser board eventually. We treat this as the family-room pick: the one that turns a bare wall into the place people stand around.

Open the doors and the board lights up. Close them and the lights go off. The trigger is a small microswitch on the door, the LEDs run off a battery pack, and that last part is what makes it easy to live with: you can hang it on a wall with no outlet in reach and never think about wiring.

Lighting is the upgrade we notice most in daily play, because a board tucked in a corner goes unplayed when nobody can see the doubles. This is the least expensive way here to get it built in, and the light washes across the face rather than glaring from one side. The rest of the package is sound: an 18-inch sisal board, a woodgrain laminate cabinet that looks more modern than the black boxes, dart holders on both doors, and chalk scoreboards.

Assembly is straightforward and it hangs like any other cabinet. The one thing to know is that the doors fold back past level, so writing a score means steadying one with a knee or fitting a small stop of your own.

If the board on your wall is the part you like, this is the cabinet to build around it. It is solid pine with box joints at the corners and bronze hinges, and it is the piece here that feels like a woodworking product rather than a printed box.

The main compartment measures 20 by 20 by 2.125 inches and takes tournament-size sisal and bristle boards, so a 17.75- or 18-inch board drops in. Closed, it is 23.25 by 21.25 by 3.5 inches and 10 pounds, which makes it a one-person hang, and two door stoppers keep the doors from swinging into the board when somebody shuts them hard. The doors carry a dry-erase scoreboard and a printed out-chart, and we used the out-chart more than we expected to.

The finish is mahogany-toned pine rather than a true furniture finish, and up close the joinery is better than the surface. That is the trade: you are buying solid stock and box joints here. Measure your board before ordering, because a board mounted on a thick backboard or ringed with a surround will not sit the same way.

Most cabinets here are black boxes that disappear into a garage wall. This one is stained a warm rustic tan with raised-panel doors, and it is the cabinet we point to for a remodeled basement where the bar and the pool table already match.

Inside sits an official 18-inch bristle board with a metal ring and a number ring that rotates, so the wear can be spread around the face instead of the whole board being replaced when the treble 20 goes soft. Built-in dart holders, a chalk scoreboard with chalk and eraser, two sets of steel-tip darts and the mounting hardware all come with it.

The look is doing the work here, and at 27.5 pounds it is the heaviest cabinet in this group, so plan on two people and fasteners that go into something solid. For a room where people see the wall, that is a fair trade; for a workshop, one of the plain black cabinets makes more sense.

A light bar sits above the board on a hinged arm and flips up out of the way when the cabinet is closed. Open the doors, drop the arm, and the board is lit from above instead of from a lamp across the room.

The other half of the kit is the throw line light, which projects a line onto the floor so nobody tapes an oche down or paces it out for each new player. In a carpeted room, that is a genuinely useful trick.

Underneath it all is the Shot King sisal board at 17.75 inches, with a rotating number ring so the wear can be moved around the face. It sits in a walnut-finish cabinet with arched doors, the two scoreboards are dry-erase and printed for both 01 and cricket, and there is storage for six darts.

We rank it behind the Accudart for one reason: the moving parts. That said, if a projected oche and an overhead light are what you are after, nothing else here does both, and the board underneath is a good one.