What are some of your favorite colors for painting the inside of your Home Theatre? Do you recomend light or dark colors?

My room size will be 22' X 28'.

i think darker tones work best. help to cut down on glare, and just help to create a 'movie theater' atmosphere.

i have seen many HT's in dark browns, dark blues, and dark ruby reds. just find one you, er your wife, likes...

bigjohn

Obvious answer would be darker colors. Makes the video "pop" more and your eyes focus on the screen and not the room.


Good line of thought is to picture a movie theater. It is dark with dark colors.

I've seen a lot of black and dark grey, but those were in dedicated theaters. (Except for Sirquack's.) If you are using this as a multipurpose area, you will probably want some color.

Dark blues and reds (maroon, etc) are popular, as are the occasional green and purple.

A lot of it comes down to pursonal choice.

Flat paint is better to keep light reflection down, but of course is harder to clean up than a semi-gloss, so if you have kids that will be in the area, that might be a factor.

Hope that this gets you started.

Hey BigJohn, we must have been typing at the same time. You happened to submit before me though...

Hey nick, we must have been typing at the same time. I happened to submit before you though

bigjohn

For using a front projector, which is the only way to go, you do want a darker environment. I'm painting my back wall with Dutch Boy "Black Leather" paint, and the side walls and ceiling are going to be a darker blue color. Darker colors will help improve your perceived contrast on front projection. If you getting a plasma, DLP, or other large tv's, they should have good contrast ratings, but darker walls won't hurt.

BigJohn and Sirquack...

Looks like none of us are working today!

I'm at work, but finding it hard to work, trying to decide if I want to go down to the Kaleidescope at the Hub and get General Tso Chicken

Of course Nick, the others have no freaking idea what the Hub is

We're having chicken cheddar wraps or french dip in our cafe, otherwise I would have to walk over to the hub for lunch and meet you finally...

Sounds like a plan, just let me know whenever and I'll meet ya down there, funny thing is that I know what you look like as i saw you hiding in the background of one of your website pictures

porter.randy@xxxxxxxxx.com

you can fill in the xxxxx's as you know where I work

Yeah. Nice picture, huh? That was some Saturday monring with me in some FINE looking clothes I use for painting, and I hadn't taken a shower.

Oh well...

Enough of the hijacking of this thread. My appologies to ndtiger...