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Getting ready to paint my Home Theater. My wife is letting me paint the room any color I want. Is flat black the best? On my side walls I had black velvour curtains made to blockout the windows. I want the room to look nice, and afraid an all black room will look a little gloomy???

Thanks,
Brock

Do you have any pics?

I haven't done anything to the room yet. I will paint then put the curtains up. So a picture wouldn't help much.

Thanks,
Brock

In my personal opinion, It really depends on the texture of your wall. If you have the typical drywall, then I would stick to a semi-gloss, or maybe even a flat dark color. I would not recommend a high gloss finish due to reflections. Once again, this is my personal opinion and someone else may have more knowledge in this field; however, I believe any dark color (red, blue, green, etc.) semi-gloss finish would do fine. Or if your walls are coarse, like mine, a high gloss dark color would look great.

If your wife is pushing for a brighter color, stick to a flat finish.

Hope this helps.

Here's a room with the wall painted black to give you an idea of what to expect:



As you can see, it can turn out really nice. If you want more light though, you may be better off going with a medium grey on all the walls. Or, maybe just paint the front wall black (wall with the TV and speakers, etc.) and the rest medium grey.

We're going with Silver Trophy (Behr) for the upper walls (there's a 4' or so ledge around the outside walls, this goes above) and Veil (Behr) for below. Being a basement room with two small windows, outside light is very much contained and it's a balance between aesthetics and function.

Again, I like Behr paint... it's like painting with a milkshake... great coverage and evens out well, and they have a flat enamel sheen available as well, it's not quite as flat as a dead flat, but it's got the cleanability/holds up like eggshell or semi-gloss without the annoying reflections (my car should be candy-apple, my walls shouldn't be!)

Bren R.

If you don't want to go with a flat black - consider going with a red tone. When the lights are off, the red will show as black - but you can avoid the gloom of a black room. Something in a nice brick would be handsome, methinks.

We painted the ceiling flat black (with a sprayer... it looks better than a roller). We then painted the side and back walls two tone, red on top a burgundy color on bottom. The front wall is all burgundy. I dont know if its flat, if its not then its only one step up. I've included a photo of the front wall... where the screen goes. Sorry about picture quality, bad camera. That's my brother by the way. If the picture does not load automaticlly right click the link and select view image.

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