Home Theater Design: Planning and Decorating Media-savvy Interiors by K. Rushing (2007-03-02)
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New in Paperback!Technical tips for how to achieve a "movie theater" experience in your own home.Home Theater Design is the comprehensive guide to planning all types of entertainment spaces in the home. Author Krissy Rushing reveals how to choose and place acoustic and audio/visual systems to the best advantage; how to plan a home theater or music room; and how to display, store, and care for all types of media formats.This book looks at the aesthetics, too with a "whole interior" approach to home entertaining. The book offers information on a variety of design considerations - furnishings, comfort, setting up entertainment spaces, hosting get-togethers, accommodating guests - while factoring in style, functionality, new technology, acoustic planning, soundproofing, lighting, and environmental and personal health considerations. Read more
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Good book
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2018 by Travis
This book has tons of helpful tips about features that you should have in an entertainment room. It helps you learn what accessories to get, but doesn't help much in the way of actually building the room. I was hoping to have some help on how to install a suspended ceiling with the sound-proofing material, or how they recommend to frame an elevated seating platform. All in all, I'd say this book is an advantage to have, and it definately is worth purchasing, but don't expect it to help you with the nuts and bolts of the operation.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2005 by Ammunist
your service was great and so is your book.
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2015 by leonard c.
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.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2007 by John Matlock
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.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2008 by R. Wien
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!
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Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2005 by James P
This book was a huge disappointment for me. After reading a lot on the subject of home theaters and acoustics, I got this book to help me "plan my home theater interior". Unfortunately she doesn't understand what a true home theater is all about. On p.79 she discusses how to create a "bedroom home theater" and breaks the most important home theater rules. One, she puts the TV in front of the windows and doesn't have a single drape to stop the light from flooding in the room. Two, she says "white cabinetry that matches the bed in this room makes the room uniform and relaxing" - though it is common HT knowledge that white reflects light and is the #1 error in home theater design (this is a book about Home Theater Design right?) Dozens of pictures show the center channel sitting on the FLOOR! No design tips on how to hide the speaker wires anywhere in this book. In her section on dedicated home theaters, she spends 3/4 of it discussing "Themed rooms" and then says don't design a theme if you think you will tire of it. Yet in this entire section she never, ever discusses what drapes or acoustic fabrics to cover your walls, let alone how important it is not to have flat walls. She mentions on p. 111 to avoid a perfect square and then tells you to find a room that is 30% longer than wide, but neglects to tell you that many rectangles are horrible as well and can be just as bad as a square. There are Internet sites that let you put in your room dimensions and calculate problem areas, but she doesn't reference or write a single word about such things. She never mentions curved walls, columns, cathedral or vaulted ceilings and how any of these may make for a good or bad home theater room. She says on p. 110, "regardless of the type of projector you choose, make sure it is capable delivering a 16:9 aspect ratio for watching widescreen movies". No Krissy, 16:9 is the standard for High Definition Television (HDTV) not movies - true widescreen movies are in the 2.35:1 ratio (and some even greater than that). Not only did Krissy specify very little about the "design" of a HT, the book annoyed me because it is so full of errors. She has almost no knowledge of the subject, regardless of her years as editor of Stereophile Guide to A/V, she clearly wrote this book from the tidbits of information she heard during her years as editor, but doesn't have the conceptual knowledge on how to tie it all together. Last example: P. 24 she says "Don't put speakers in corners. The sound will bounce off the walls, ceiling, and floor." This is funny because speakers even several feet from the corner will still reflect sound off the walls, ceiling and floor, but she says nothing about how to properly place your speakers. Then, the funniest part, is the picture above shows the center speaker about three feet below the plasma TV, when you should always place a center channel above a plasma (or any other TV, and behind the screen [the best possible spot] for projectors). In the very least I expected a list of home interior product manufacturers who make home theater equipment. Like Guilford of Maine (who make acoustically transparent fabric), Owens Corning who make Acoustic Blanket, and other companies that make home theater seating and so on. The book should have talked about not using glossy paint due to its reflective properties and touched on what type of carpeting is best suited to your home theater - a question I am still looking into. I would think most people would have loved tips for hiding speaker wire, a list of colors (other than flat black) and a discussion of what colors work well together if you decide on a two-tone room. Unfortunately none, I mean NONE of this was even referenced in this book. Krissy just doesn't "get it" and you shouldn't get this book.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2005 by C. D PAPAS
Just okay
Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2016 by jmk