Home Theater Decor

While you are trying to decide which equipment you are going to buy for your Tinseltown movie theater, you could be getting on with your home theater decor. it would be a shame to get the equipment and then not have the room ready to put it in.

You can really have a lot of fun with home theater decor. There are, at least in my opinion, three ways you can go. You could decorate your room like the inside of the movie theatre hall; you could decorate it like the foyer or you could decorate it like a shrime to an era, a genre or even a specific actor or director.

The first option can be the simplest way, if that is what you want. Just paint the walls a very dark colour or better still paper them with anaglypta and then paint them a dark colour. Make sure that you use a matt paint or emlsion so that the light from the screen is not reflected everywhere.

Then add a few wall lights, sconces, or even standard lamps and put them on a single switch with a dimmer. Put the control(s) for that handy to your chair or better still make the lighting work by remote control. The most important thing is to have a dimmer.

That is all you need as far as basic home theater decor goes in order to copy a movie theater.

If you want to go a step up (in my opinion) in home theater decor, you could do the above, but add a minibar, in which you can keep your favourite drinks, chocolates and ice creams.

You could also put a few rectangles or cork wallboard up, painted the same dark colour, of course, and pin up your all time favourite posters of traditional films or movie stars or you could rotate different poster related to Tinseltown or the movie business.

You could add a few small corner shelves, perhaps with their own dim lighting with fim memorabilia on them. Maybe a replica Oscar or a few framed signatures.

You could really let yourself go on this one. You will enjoy collecting bits and pieces of film history or fim memorabilia and your guests will love to inspect it before the lights go out or after they come on again.

The third option in home theater decor also involves more work, but could be the most rewarding. Say, your all time movie legend was Marilyn Monroe.

There are loads and loads of pictures, clothes, signatures, photographs and figurines of her and you could build your own little museum or shrine to Marilyn Monroe. You do not only have to watch her films, but collecting authentic Monroe stuff could become a hobby, even a profitable one, while you are getting the benefit of displaying them in your home theater decor all the while free.