Home Theater Room Design

When many people first think about setting up a home theater, they place a high emphasis on the electronic and sound equipment, but they often forget about the actual room itself. Even if you purchase the best equipment in the world, its success will be reduced if you haven't paid enough attention to the home theater room design.

When it comes to the design of the room, the first thing you will want to pay attention to is the lighting and acoustics.
If you wish to build your home theater in a room that only has a hard floor and walls, it will produce an echo which is too high. However, if you have a room that is completely composed of softer materials, you will have a room which is dead sounding, or with no echo whatsoever. Both of these things is undesirable for the home theater room design. Lighting is important as well, because too much incoming light from the outside via your windows will produce a glare on the screen, washing out the images.

If you have too much light inside the home theater room, the same thing can happen. If the room is designed for a television that uses a front projection, this room will need to be darker than a room which is designed for a television which is rear projection. The reason for this is because the image on the screen may form a mixture with lights from either the window or room lights, washing out the images it projects.

When it comes to home theater room design, one of the first questions that many people ask is how large the screen should be, and from what distance should this screen be viewed. In the past, when a 21 inch television was considered large, the proper viewing distance would be a maximum of 12 feet. However, if you're looking for an authentic movie theater like experience, the proper distance is 3 times the screen width.

However, this only goes for televisions that are 36 inches in screen size or larger, since anything smaller than this will require you to sit too close. Overall, the options for the design of the room are limitless. Most people choose to have their rooms color coordinated, and this means you will need to purchase both furniture and equipment which compliments the color of the actual room.