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Introduction to Home Theatre Seating
August 20th, 2008 | 
Author: There’s nothing like settling into the deep soft seats at a movie theatre and spending an enjoyable few hours watching a movie, except for being able to recreate the experience at home in your own home theatre seating. Minus the sticky floors and chatty couple beside you of course.
As the cost of projectors and various large screen displays continue to come down, more homeowners are creating their own home theatres, but the project is never complete until the home theatre seating has been chosen and installed. It’s not a matter of buying a couch and loveseat to complement the room anymore. For the ultimate home theatre seating, you have to look at some of the modern seats available in single or multiple seat configurations that include everything from plush fabrics and sleek leather to in-seat sub-woofers, cup holders and coolers.
You can create your very own version of a Theo Kalomirakis custom home theatre in your own basement and you can save thousands by purchasing many of the products online. If you are not already familiar with Theo Kalomirakis, he is one of the premier designers of private home theatres and has created some incredible rooms with top of the line home theatre seats. If you haven’t seen any of his work yet, I highly recommend you pick up his book Great Escapes: New Designs for Home Theatres. It is a great source of ideas for your own theatre and a must have for any home theatre aficionado.
Cloth Seats or Leather Seats, Which is Best for Home Theatre Seating?
You finally have your home theatre setup ready to go, the final decision, what home theatre seating to install. Should you go with cloth seats or should you go with leather? The cloth are warmer, perhaps a bit cosier, but there is nothing that beats the feel of soft supple leather to lay back in to watch a movie.
Well here’s my choice if you will be using the room for watching family movies with the kids. It has to be leather, if you have younger kids (or even teenagers for that matter, you know there will be spills. It simply cannot be avoided, they miss their mouth’s, they bounce around and things spill. With leather that is properly protected though it’s a non-issue.
With prompt attention the spills wipe up with a cloth whether it’s a soda pop or just buttery fingers from popcorn. I have two kids under ten and our cloth couch looks 200 years old, but when you look at the leather home theatre seats, no problems. So, just for sanity’s sake, leather is the way to go.
Home Theatre Seats for Baseball Fans
Oasis Home Theatre Seating is selling a variant on an old theme for the true sport’s fan. These seats look like they came right out of the stadium and will take the playoff experience for the true sports fan to the next level.
For the whole story head over to Electronic House, Stadium Style Seats for Your Home Theater.
How should my Spare Room be set up? (Basement)?
I have already have one guest room, but I want the basement to have additional accomodations if I have a lot of guests over the holidays. My basement is fairly large. I currently have a sofa and chair in the basement. The sofa is a regular one, not a sofa bed. I also want to keep a small area set aside for an office area w/ my PC and printer, etc. I’m wondering if anyone has some ideas for how to set this up. Should I purchase a sofa bed for this area? I could use the additional seating too because I want the basement (when guests are not in town) to be a place of entertaining like a home theater. Any advice would be helpful.
Only invest in a sleeper sofa if you really have company often enough to use it. They are fairly expensive and the mattresses being folded all the time gradually damages the sponge. A matching pair of futons would give you the same sleeping area and more seating. Maybe you could set up your office at one end and use the sofa as the divider, backing it up to the desk or a pair of bookcases. Then set up the living room, tv area in one half of the room. Good Luck.
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Home Theater HELP??
My living room is about 15×20. The couches/chairs are 10 ft to 13ft from the TV. We have a 42inch Samsung 1080p HDTV with plenty of HDMI and component slots to fill.
I'm looking for a home theater system less than $1000. Given the size of the room and location of the seating area I'm thinking we might have to go with the front/rear speaker system. Preferably something not too bulky.
Any help at all??
What models/brands do you think might work with my situation??
hii, i have a similar setup in the room as yours. i bought a Jamo A101 HCS ..its affordable, looks sleek & stylish (with the bose-look alike speakers), a powerful subwoofer and a region-free DVD player. it costs me around US$ 650…really amazing sound effect
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What is the first step in installing a home theater?
What is the first step in installing a home theater? I plan on including:
Seat risers
Projector
motorized projection screen
theater lighting
surround sound
media closet
Acoustics for sound (not sound proofing).
Put them in order if you can. Thanks
Wow, you 2 guys gave me a lot of information and even more things to think about (not be sarcastic). Thank you so much.
Based on just your list, assuming you've already wired, the order doesn't make a lot of different. Here's a couple things to consider first, that aren't on your list:
Since you have a dedicated room to work with, you have some considerations before fixing your final design. The difference between a good theater and an amazing theater is 50% room and 50% equipment.
Decisions to make:
1. Sound proofing. If the room is big enough you can build a room within your room by staggering new studwalls, floor and ceiling and placing special material between the walls. Floors are suspended much like motor mounts in a car.
2. Splaying the side walls. If you build an inner-room you should make the side walls unparallel. A 20 foot deep room should be two feet wider at the back as a minimum.
3. Breaking up the ceiling. Whether you build an inner room or not, you should change the shape of the ceiling from flat to? I like to build a lattice framework that looks like the swells of a wave from below, and then have it drywalled, but there are endless possibilities here. My curved ceiling hangs from the actual ceiling and doesn't extend to the walls in any direction. This allows for stunning lighting designs.
4. Raised seating. If you are planning rows, you will want to pick your seat now so the proper wires can be installed for hardwire control from Crestron, AMX, etc… Best choice is to have your eyes even with the center of the screen vertically and horizontally. If you're married, you might want to split the difference and share the best seating position.
5. Before any construction begins, equipment should be chosen so the correct wiring cna be installed in the walls. I would not use 16/2 or 16/4 in a dedicated theater. That's surround family room wire. I would recommend 12 or 14 gauge non oxydizing high strand count speaker wire.
6. The most important components in any system are the speakers, the display and the remote control. Those are the items that we interface with and hence will show the best return for dollar spent. The rack full of boxes is far more forgiving than mediocre interface devices!
7. Projectors and screens are available now that will adjust to the full width of a 2.35:1 motion picture and the films can be displayed at 24 fps, just like at the theater. This is a substantial improvement over standard 16:9 fixed with 30 fps limitation. Several companies are making projectors like this now. I like Runco, Vidicron and JVC with anamorphic lenses.
8. Speakers can be hidden behind a faux front wall, even if you don't build an inner room. Side and rear speakers can be hidden in architectural detail walls. Picking speakers is far more complex than I can write about here.
9. Controlling a theater can be a nightmare or a breeze. It all depends on the control system and the programmer. Today, I would choose between Crestron, AMX or LifeWare. There are less costly, lower performance options such as RTI, Pronto, Nevo which work pretty well.
10. Separate processors and amplifiers are great but I've had good luck with high end receivers from Yamaha, Marantz and PioneerElite also, and they cost less money. Depending on the rest of your theater, you might even be able to use Marantz's lower end line, Denon.
11. Cables don't have to be the very best, but don't buy the bargain basement stuff either. I use Ethereal for lower cost installations and Tributaries in nicer rooms.
12. Regardless of the theater you design, hire a professional for room accoustics, sound calibration and display calibration to SMPTE standards. An ISF certified tech is adequate for display, HAA certifed tech is okay and afforable for accoustics and a THX level 2 tech will be qualified to calibrate the audio. NOTE: Room accoustics costs the most, and is the most valuable!
Hope this is some help. Good luck and have fun with your project!
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