Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation 1 Apr 28, 2009 4:10 pm Hi, We are just finalising plans for our place. At the moment we have allocated a media room with dimensions of 6 x 3.5m. The room will be a dedicated home theatre room. The door will the on the 6m length wall. We are thinking (funds permit) of putting a screen on the 3.5m wall. We'd be pushing it to get the room to 4m. We'd have to sacrifice something I am sure ... architect would probaby say design. Anyway, the questions are: - would we be able to fit a decent screen - should the wall be on the 3.5m side - sensibly how much seating can we fit in the room - could the room be shorter than 6m (DH has kindly offered to reduce the length) I guess we may not be able to buy all the great stuff at the moment, but if one day we can I don't want to be kicking myself that we didn't do enough research and for it to be ideal we should have gone 4m rather than 3.5m. Thanks Re: Another Room Size question 2Apr 28, 2009 4:24 pm 3.5 is plenty wide enough for a huge screen, and 6m is long... so you could make it 5m if you needed the space somewhere else.. 5m you can get in 2 rows of seating quite comfortably.. but 6m would be more roomy. Re: Another Room Size question 3Apr 28, 2009 6:54 pm wakeboardandy 3.5 is plenty wide enough for a huge screen, 3.5m wide is OK for a decent sized screen - but I wouldn't go as far as saying it was massive... wakeboardandy 5m you can get in 2 rows of seating quite comfortably.. but 6m would be more roomy. Again, if you squeeze 2 rows of seats in a room that's only 5m long I reckon that's pretty tight... 1 row of seats in a room 5m long is very cool though... Re: Another Room Size question 4Apr 28, 2009 7:22 pm Rodda 3.5m wide is OK for a decent sized screen - but I wouldn't go as far as saying it was massive... I guess it is personal opinion to what massive is.. but to me 150" screen is massive.... Re: Another Room Size question 6Apr 28, 2009 9:54 pm Thanks heaps for the replies. I guess we could change the room size to 4m, would that make much of a difference (sigh, not sure what 50 cm can get me - am totally not a visual sort of person!). Would there be much difference from the 3.5? If there isn't then I may as well keep it at 3.5m. Would also love to know the answer to Casa2's question as well. Re: Another Room Size question 7Apr 28, 2009 10:04 pm well to visualise what a 150" screen would look like. Imagine 3 50" plasma/lcd tv's sitting next to each other.. and then imagine another 3 sitting on top of these 3. That would be your screen size. To me that is big, but it depends what big is to you. Rod obviously likes bigger than this, so it is what you like in the end. You probably need to go to a place like big picture people to see what size screen suits you best. Re: Another Room Size question 8Apr 29, 2009 1:00 pm Hi guys. I'm actually the other way (slightly). I don't think I'd ever put a screen anywhere near as big as that (150") in any room unless it truly was huge (ie. a genuine dedicated home cinema of over 6m wide and 8m deep - way over...). No, for me, a 120" screen is a big screen (and Matt's 135" screen is simply enormous for a regular domestic home cinema room - but it works in his because his room is 7m deep), and is a good size for a room that's over 5m deep (too big for a room that's under 5m deep). If your room is 5m deep I believe you simply should not have 2 rows of seats - the front row will only be 3.5m back which means you will have to go with a smaller screen size (unless you don't care how it looks or feels from the front row). If your room is 6m deep and you really want 2 rows of seats then I would recommend a 110" - 115" screen, as 110" is a good size for viewing from 4.5m back. As far as width goes, ideally I would like to see any room to be more than 4m wide. This gives room for the screen PLUS room either side to place your speakers without them being hard up against the side walls or crowding the screen (and the wider apart they are the better your sonic image/soundstage). If your screen is 2.6m wide (eg. 110" with borders) and the INSIDE of your cinema is 3.5m wide then that leaves 45cm either side of your screen to squeeze in your speakers - and if they are each 20cm wide (average-ish for a floorstander) that leaves a 12.5cm gap either side of each speaker. I call that crowding... Re: Another Room Size question 9Apr 29, 2009 3:28 pm Thanks heaps Rodda & Wakeboardandy for the information. Really clear and helpful. This is exactly what I have been looking for. Unfortunately we can probably only move the room out to 4m. It would be useful is architects had some basic guidelines or atleast someone to liase with. Would make the hunt for information not so challenging. Thanks again. I am becoming quite reliant on all the advice from here. 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