Oh I agree (and indeed, padding and plush pillows, etc.) are part of the picture. There's a delicate balance to be struck, I'd say, since many (most?) of us cannot simply dedicate a room to nothing else but HT. Mine is, essentially, the living room, and while it is largely turned over to a/v, it does need to have a modicum of sociability in it, and the aesthetics that go along with that. How much one way or another you handle things is a tricky balance (or, alternately, how cleverly you can make the room more and more a/v primed while not making it LOOK that way. i.e. rugs and plush).
