Home theater setup in basement ideas

Imitating attic home theater design concept for basement? Why not? You can design your basement home theater to be felt just like the attic. A comfy set of couch placed in a perfect spot which creates an awesome view right from the couch. This small space of basement home theater offers an extremely big display.

Adding a beige carpet is ready to comfort your feet. For a little brainstorming, take a look at this miniature of the theater building. The red and gold combination represent classic luxury. Applying a rustic style to a home theater might be quite uncommon. But, if you really want to experiment with your basement, you can try this one of the best rustic style home theater designs.

This rustic basement home theater is quite unique. The element of rustic woods and rustic roofings for the walls really add their own charm. The pattern of the timeworn surface creates their own set of color combination.

A bright modern home theater is one of the best styles for the basement. As we know, a basement is one dark space in a house, lighting it up properly is a must thing to do.

AS you can see this modern basement home theater is bright but not too bright. It features an adequate amount of lighting. It offers its own charm to the whole room. The seating is one crucial element you need to consider in planning the home theater. Make sure the arrangement is comfortable for watching the screen. This basement home theater is completed with a comfy cushion that would definitely support your excitement of watching movies with your friends or family.

Sitting with legs crossed on the cushion will be enjoyed by everyone. You can also enjoy the movies while lying on the cushion instead of sitting. This amazing and sophisticated device would provide you a bigger screen just by shooting the image to the white, clean and big wall. The size of the screen depends on the size of your wall and the length of the room to set the position for the projector.

A mini cinema concept will definitely please anyone. You could actually enjoy the experience of watching movies in public cinema using this seat of home theater. It would be more spectacular when you set all the lights off and enjoy the movie in the dark. Including a cellar bar near the home theater is a great idea. Compact Medium Large Expansive Walk-out Look-out Fully Buried Wall Color. Beige Black Blue Brown 3.

Gray Green 5. Multi Pink 1. Purple 1. Red 2. White Yellow 5. Floor Material. Carpet Vinyl Laminate Light Hardwood Ceramic Tile Medium Hardwood Dark Hardwood Concrete Porcelain Tile Linoleum 3. Terra-cotta Tile 1. Floor Color. However, if you have a lot of water pipes, the first thing you want to do is seal them properly.

You can also install sump pumps and French drains to control the water if your basement floods. Basements are usually not well-lit, in fact, some basements may just have a small window as the source of light.

If the basement has a window, that may be troublesome for watching movies during the daytime so you should consider getting blinds or curtains for it. As far as setting up lighting goes, you want to install lights with dimmers. This will give you complete control over the lights so you can adjust them to your liking. Lighting the path to the seats, if your basement is really big is another good idea so guests can get to the seats with ease once the movie starts. There are two parts to wiring you need to pay attention to.

The first would be the wires that are already present in the basement, these would be from other parts of the home. You need to make sure that those wires are properly taken care of, getting PVC pipes and running your wires through that. Now the second aspect is wiring your technology.

Similar to other wires in the basement, you want to cover the wires with PVC pipes or just run them through the walls if you have walls covering the wiring. The type of wires you use for your gadgets is important, you want thick wires 12 or 10 gauge wires should be fine for the basement.

Bare ceiling and walls are common in basements with wires and pipes showing. These can be hazardous due to pipe leaks and electric wires being exposed. You can seal the pipes and cover the wires with PVC pipes but that still makes the space looks incomplete.

You want to cover the ceiling and the walls so it looks like a proper room. You may also want to consider carpeting the wall to provide better acoustics in the room. Depending on the size of your home, the average WiFi signal may not reach your basement so streaming media from the internet may not be possible in it.

As mentioned before, basement floors tend to be concrete. That does lead to good acoustics, however, you can improve them even further by carpeting the floor. Carpets and rugs absorb sound, so there is no reflection of it. Click the Button Below to Sign Up. Click the Button Below. Hi there, i would like to tell you that you are calling coax cable as RJ6 and it is not right, the right name for it is RG6 cable. Just want to point that to you, by the way your article is very good.

Yes I did, good eye Sebastian. I've corrected it now. I must have been hearkening back to my college days, I think there was a RJ cable, it had like a little metal hook thingy. Thanks, Jason. I have been a customer with Jade Communications for the first time and I must say, I love their services. They are the best in Boca Raton and I would definitely recommend them. At this moment I am going to do my breakfast, when having my breakfast coming over again to read more news.

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You need to remove the section on network cabling. Routers and APs are very cheap, too. Running cabling and wiring ports is really just a waste of time in the year They make wireless adapters if you really need to physically plug in to something, too.

RJ45 is the plastic connector on the end, not the wire, by the way. So if you want to leave it up, you should say to run Ethernet cable or CAT6 cable.

Hi Matt - Good point. I've updated the post to include a comment that wireless is now just as fast as wired. I still prefer and recommend a Wired connection. It IS more secure and is won't be affected by channel interference or overload.

So agree to disagree, if you want we can fight it out physically until one of collapses in a pool of our own blood. If I have rope lighting and sconces on the walls of my home theater, do I really need any ceiling lights? Hi Amy - Probably not. Not for a home theater room anyway. If it was a regular family room where you might do other things - like play a board game or just hang out - then yes I would add more, but for a theater room - you're good to go.

Definitely do not need to sit 25 feet back for a " screen. I have a " and sit only 15 feet back. Very immersive. When I play PS4 I sit another feet back. Its all on your enjoyment level but definitely not required to have that much space.

Agree with your screen size comment! What is the point of doing a projector if the screen is only "? Get a flat panel in that case. A screen should be BIG to fill your field of vision, and 15 feet is fine for " screen.