Home Theater Design : Planning and Decorating Media-Savvy Interiors

By Krissy Rushing

Book Overview

This work will guide readers through all the aspects of creating a beautiful and comfortable home theatre that takes advantage of media-related emerging technologies and furnishings. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592530176
• ISBN13: 9781592530175
• Release Date: August 1970
• Publisher: Quayside
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Homt Theater Design

This book gives an excellent overview of the different levels a home theater can be done at as well as many illustrations to refer to. It is very helpful in gaining knowledge of how theaters work and should be designed and integrated into their environment. That is where the hundreds of illustrations help out most. The only thing to remeber when reading this book is that technology changes so rapidly that some of the information relating to video displays and a few other items are outdated but not harmful in any way to your project or design. I recommend it.

Designing a Room not a System

The first question you have to ask is 'What is a home theater.' And the author doesn't have any better definition than you do, so she has written the book in three sections, and with a definite point of view. One section is on small systems in small rooms. Here you are basically using more or less standard equipment in more or less standard rooms. The next section is on multi-purpose rooms, such as a den or living room with a major emphasis on media but still useful for other things. Finally there's the dedicated home theater. Here a room is built to make your own small, but technologically, audiologically, aesthetically and in every other way professional quality. This often includes stadium seating, with high quality chairs and tables for drinks and popcorn between the seats. All in all the book is more concerned with the interior decoration of the home theater than with the technical aspects. I suppose that's fair, because the rapid change in the technology. Anything you attempted to print in a book would become obsolete at the next Consumer Electronics Show.

Helped me out a lot!

This book is really helpful if you're planning a home theater system or integrating some type of audio and video stuff inside the house. I had a small house and was able to get lots of tips for designing my a/v system in it. Now that I bought my new house (much larger) I am able to reference the later chapters for dealing with the new challenges. Highly recommend!

Good Book

I liked the book very much. Goes into great detail on the theory and decorating of home theatres and backs up with great pictures of mid to upper end theatres. If your looking for construction related building and wiring diagrams, this book is not for you. That book would be an incredible companion to this one. Unfortunately given the quick changing pace of the home theatre industry, it would have quickly outdated pictures.

Great A/V Guide

This book is an excellent recourse for anybody trying to integrate a/v elements to their home. It helped me turn my 1906 craftsman bungalow into an a/v wonderland.