Our home theater room is one of my favorite rooms in our new home! With beautiful wall paneling, and a big couch bed, it’s a movie lover’s dream.
Our new home theater room is perfect for movie lovers like us
When we bought our new house, and I mentioned that it had a home theater room included in the floor plans, many people recommended turning into into a home gym or a playroom. But we’re total movie lovers, and have family movie night almost every weekend. So we were super excited to turn this into a really cozy space.
What we wanted for this home theater room
We went through a lot of design ideas before landing on the layout and design of this room.
Here was our criteria for the home theater room:
- Large TV or projector
- Huge, comfortable couch
- Dark wall color for best movie viewing
Why we decided on a TV versus a projector
At first we planned to do a projector in this room and face the couch toward the far wall. But the room is actually fairly narrow, and the cut out in the one corner made it tricky to fit a big couch vertically across the room.
So instead, we opted for a large TV on the longer wall, which gave us more couch options.
Finding the perfect couch for this room
Most home theaters have big reclining chairs, or layers of couches. But since our space is pretty small, a couch was the best option. I discovered a “modular couch” somewhere along the way — it’s a kind of sectional that you can re-arrange in various ways.
A modular couch is the perfect kind of couch for this space because we can turn it into a giant couch bed when it’s family movie night. And then when we have friends over, we can pull the ottomans out and make it a true sectional.
We looked online at a ton of different couches, but buying a couch online is so stressful. So we went to our local Nebraska Furniture Mart and found THIS COUCH and purchased it in the fabric called “stone gray.”
It’s a really high quality couch, for the price, and I could not be more happy with it!
These are the pieces we purchased for our modular couch
- 2 ottomans
- 2 corner seats
- 4 armless seats
Deciding on the wall paneling for our home theater
Philip had the idea to do wall paneling on the walls of our home theater room, and I’m so thrilled we did it. We hired a local wood worker, showed him some design ideas (like this one), and he went to work.
The millwork really gives the space so much personality and makes it feel finished.
Our millwork squares are roughly 21″x 22″ squares — we measured it so they would fit perfectly across the length of the wall.
The paint color we chose
The color we chose for the walls was actually a custom color, chosen to match the built ins that our custom builder created for us.
I have the exact formula in the photo below!
Finishing the room with details
Of course the room wasn’t complete without some finishing touches.
We added BLACK SCONCES to the wall behind the couch, and then covered the couch in a ton of pillows that we found at World Market and Amazon.
And we found the FLOOR CUSHIONS right here, and I’ve linked all the pillows below.
This room is just so cozy, inviting, and fun. I’m obsessed with how it turned out. If you have any other questions about it, leave a comment!
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This is such a great room, Merrick! My kiddos would be obsessed with it, I bet yours are too. Love those floor cushions, World Market needs to come to Canada!
I Love what You’ve done with the Theater! You have Inspired my next home RENOVATION.
It looks amazing, I think it can be a great room for relaxing and watching movies. The main thing is that you combined excellent furniture and style. As for these chairs , you found them immediately in the store or pre-read reviews on sites such as https://bestazy.com/ or others who have collected a lot of different product reviews?
Hello! How much did rhe wood paneling cost labor & material?
My wife and i have a similar size room and are looking to do the exact Same style!
Thank you very much!
I have the same narrow room in our basement as well and i just love this look! Can you by chance share Your source of flooring? And…for painT, thank you for the formula but can you also share what type/finish of paint used since it is on wood panel?
You have a beautiful home. We’ve sold our tiny two bedroom apartment and have just bought a house. I cannot wait to decorate! You’ve reinstated the itch!Garage
What size tv did you use and what brand?
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Did you paint your ceilings the same as wall color? if so, how tall is your ceiling?
Hello! How much did rhe wood paneling cost labor & material?
My wife and i have a similar size room and are looking to do the exact Same style!
Thank you very much!
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thanks so much for posting your paint color formula. I just bought 4 gallons to do my basement. I can wait to see the transformation!
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Informative post. What are the dimensions of the room? What size TV did you get?
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Love your theater room! what are the dimensons of this room? i have a small room that i would like to do something similar to this in.
Love your room! We are finishing OuR theater room next month. What size boards did you use for your squares? 1 x 2? 1×4? Is the 21” x 22” square Measurement inside the square or outside? Thank you!!
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I am looking for an accurate link to the modular couch in the theatre room. The link matched in this article is not working.
https://www.merricksart.com/dark-gray-home-theater-room/
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