Should Home Theaters Have Light Or Dark Walls

My room is a mostly dedicated theater room but it also serves as a sometimes guest bedroom.

Should home theaters have light or dark walls.

Use a flat no glare paint. Cover walls with acoustic fabric like in movie theaters. I recently upgraded the video aspects of my home theater to include a 100 screen and projector and in a word its awesome. Do dark walls matter.

Colors such as grey dark brown burgundy or black are good choices. White is usually the color recommended for ceilings because it reflects maximum light. Paint the home theater a dark color but don t use a gloss semi gloss or satin finish paint. In this video i run through why you want dark walls in your theater and my process for paint.

But no matter how dedicated a movie viewer you are you probably don t want. If you re ready to start putting your home theater room together one element that has to be right is the paint color you choose for the walls and or ceiling. When it comes to the walls and ceiling the goal is to not use anything that would distract from the room s focal point the screen. Commercial theaters are painted dark colors for good reason because you want to focus on the screen and not the walls.

Home theaters even benefit from darker ceilings near the screen. Parts are in the description. It s time for the theater build.