I'm finishing up my home theater and need a good paint color for the wall behind the plasma and the theater seats. I have dark cherry wood floors. Any tips would be great.

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no ideas?

Do a search for the words "color scheme" in advanced search.
Never mind I did it for ya.

http://archive2.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=436265&highlight=black

This is a great thread with pics. Should help ya out.

Scott

I'd say mallard green, but since you have red seating, dark dark dark red!

so dark is a must? I bought 2 cans of light beige but perhaps i should rethink room color scheme

Jimmy ! Jimmy ! Call in someone who KNOWS colors. If you are gonna go with red seating, you want colrs to go with that. Find an interior decorator. I suggest dark gray w/ that red. Don't go with red walls unless you want it to look like a strip bar or something.

Jimmy ! Jimmy ! Call in someone who KNOWS colors. If you are gonna go with red seating, you want colrs to go with that. Find an interior decorator. I suggest dark gray w/ that red. Don't go with red walls unless you want it to look like a strip bar or something.

Yeah, I was a painting contractor in CA for 10 years. I have no clue :rolleyes:

What's wrong with a strip bar? :p

I'm finishing up my home theater and need a good paint color for the wall behind the plasma and the theater seats. I have dark cherry wood floors. Any tips would be great.

I just painted my home theater room. Walls are Sangria (2006-20 Benjamin Moore) and Ceiling is "Dragons Breath" (1547 - Benjamin Moore). I couldn't be happier with the colors. BTW - I have a front projector and the dark colors make a HUGE difference in image contrast and black levels (my walls were previously cream; ceiling white). On a subjective level, the room just feels a lot more like a theater.

I attached a photo of the room with a red leather diner chair...the flash from the camera makes the Sangria appear a bit brighter and more red....but you get the idea.

The Sangria is a burgundy, but not too red - its more muted. The Dragon's breath is a nice dark gray without any color tint. The two go great together and my wife (who was VERY skeptical - especially with a paint color named "dragon's breath") really liked the finished product.

Good luck!

check out sherwin-william's 'theater red' I am using it for my home theater.

w/ cherry floors, and depending on how dark of a red the chairs are, I'd go w/ a gold....at least thats what I just went with for my theater..good luck

Jimmy ! Jimmy ! Call in someone who KNOWS colors. If you are gonna go with red seating, you want colrs to go with that. Find an interior decorator. I suggest dark gray w/ that red. Don't go with red walls unless you want it to look like a strip bar or something.


Well... so now I know what you really thought of my theater when you came to visit...

http://caesare.homeip.net:32171/basement/slides/IMG_2123.jpg

http://caesare.homeip.net:32171/basement/slides/IMG_2008.jpg

Steve - your just missing a pole on that stage :-D Give me a shout if you start hosting some gentlemens nights :-)

Seriously, I think adding Reds, Blacks and Golds looks great - but I would say that :D

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Cheers,
Mark

Yeah, I was a painting contractor in CA for 10 years. I have no clue :rolleyes:



Knowing HOW to paint does not make you an interior designer. :rolleyes:

Steve - your just missing a pole on that stage :-D Give me a shout if you start hosting some gentlemens nights :-)

Seriously, I think adding Reds, Blacks and Golds looks great - but I would say that :D


Cheers,
Mark

Feeble minds think alike!

Looking really good Mark. Your bar in the other thread is looking great as well.

We had ~45 people in the house for the superbowl and it was a blast... everybody loved the color scheme.

(oh, and the pole goes in the dance studio... ;) )

Knowing HOW to paint does not make you an interior designer. :rolleyes:

Hahaha ok. You mean if I had a piece of paper from some community college you'd trust that over my experience and color-consultant abilities? :rolleyes:

Hahahahahah OK. Remember, I'm the one who said to go with red.

Hahaha ok. You mean if I had a piece of paper from some community college you'd trust that over my experience and color-consultant abilities? :rolleyes:

Hahahahahah OK. Remember, I'm the one who said to go with red.


Oh and at what point did I disagree with Red as the color. :confused:

For the OP:

http://www.mycinematech.com/Theater/custom/04.html
http://www.mycinematech.com/Theater/signature/Savoy/04.html
http://www.mycinematech.com/Theater/classic/sophisticate/01.html

James,

I also have red leather cinema seating and am probably going to go with a dark gray for the walls and black for the projector screen wall. Got another question for you though. How did you construct the media cabinet/shelves??

Cheers,
Tony

I might as well continue this thread....

I'm in the final (hopefully) stages of planning a dedicated HT in an existing basement room. The 12'x14' room already exists, and my goal is to convert it to a HT. The below-grade room is totally light controlled. I do not plan to make framing modifications to the room. I plan a 120" diagonal 16:9 AT screen with LCR speaker behind it on one of the 12' walls. I plan to have ONE row of seating at about a 10-'11' viewing distance. Anyway, this isn't why I'm in this thread....

One of my first effort is painting... currently the room is white walls/ceiling and a light brown carpeting. Perhaps my biggest challenge is convincing my my wife that darker paint is REQUIRED!! I'd prefer a black screenwall, and fairly dark ceiling and side walls..... My wife asks if we can leave it white....

Does anyone have GOOD, OBJECTIVE evidence supporting darker walls/ceiling?

My wife thinks that darker walls/ceiling would only help if the room had windows....

I'd like to get started with equipment procurement and installation, but if I need to leave the walls white, then I'm not sure it's worth the effort and dollars to use quality equipment.

fwiw, my current design employs a Mits HC6000 projector, an AT screen (SMX or other), OnkyoPro PR-SC885P pre/pro, Emotive AMPs, and (most likely) Polk LC265i L/R, LCi-C center, and FXi-A6 surrounds and rear-surrounds.

Any suggestions? Any good links for me to send to my wife? She's worried that the darks walls/ceiling will be impossible to change later and that it would hurt the resale value.... I don't think she believes me when I say "it needs to be dark"....

Thanks.