When we were thinking about buying this house, the large basement room played heavily into our decision making process. We have always loved the idea of having a theatre room, and this room was the right size and shape in addition to being completely dark.
When we first moved in the room had an orange faux-rock painted floor (it was a doozy!), dark green lower walls and white upper walls with wallpaper trim dividing the two. There was built in cabinetry in the far end of the room and a large closet on the wall opposite the cabinetry.
We decided early on to gut the room so that would could decide where to place electrical outlets and where to run speaker wire.
Our kids were eager to help...
Here is the scary floor...
Once we tore out the drywall and cabinets, we strung all the electrical and speaker wire, hung new drywall and built a riser for a row of seats where the cabinets previously had been. We tore out the old closet and built one small media storage closet and left the remainder open as a small alcove. We put 10 can lights in the ceiling that we put on 2 dimmer switches (one for the main room and one for the alcove section. We installed a wirelessly controlled automatic theatre screen so we could choose whether to have the screen up or down. Then we painted the ceiling black and the walls a deep maroon. We put dark grey carpet on the riser and lower level with a pergo walkway along one edge.
We mounted our projector and speakers, brought in theatre chairs and we were all set!
Movie time!!
