16 Home Theater Design Ideas for the Most Luxurious Movie Nights
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A home theater makes watching your favorite movies and television shows feel like an escape from reality, thanks to ample seating and a deluxe sound system. But a screening room doesn’t have to feel like a dark cave—the ones in the homes featured here, from Ralph Lauren’s residence in Colorado to George Clooney’s Mexican villa, are decorated just as thoughtfully as any other room in the house. Think oversize sectionals and luxe leather chairs, elegant oak paneling and walls of windows, or even a fireplace. Pillows, blankets, artworks, and lamps provide an extra layer of coziness and a welcome dose of personality. So grab the popcorn and settle in. The best part: When the credits roll, you’re just steps from bed.
Shown: Turn-of-the-century Pendleton and Beacon blankets accent handsome leather armchairs in the rustic screening room at Ralph Lauren’s Double RL Ranch in Colorado.
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Red cotton-velvet curtains add a dose of Old Hollywood glamour to the screening room at Ralph Lauren’s Double RL Ranch.
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Oversize furniture and art furnish a serene Malibu, California, screening room designed by Scott Mitchell and Denise Kuriger.
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Vladimir Kagan sectionals anchor the sunlit screening room of a Manhattan townhouse designed by Delphine Krakoff.
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At the U.S. Virgin Islands retreat of New York designers Tony Ingrao and Randy Kemper, a stairway leads to a luxe screening space.
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For the elegant screening room at producer John Goldwyn and hotelier Jeff Klein’s Los Angeles home, designer Madeline Stuart took cues from the oval room in film director George Cukor’s home, designed by William Haines in the 1930s.
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A fire roars below the built-in Samsung television at John Legend and Chrissy Teigen’s Los Angeles home, updated by Don Stewart of Desiderata Design. The sectional sofa is by B&B Italia, and the chair at left is vintage Osvaldo Borsani.
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Studio Sofield designed a chic oak-paneled media room for a family’s Aspen, Colorado, vacation home.
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In true cinema style, elegant sconces light the walls of the home theater in an Atlanta residence designed by Suzanne Kasler.
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A 14-foot screen is the main event in George Clooney’s home theater at Casamigos, his getaway in Los Cabos, Mexico.
Photo: David Churchill11/16Bannenberg & Rowell designed the interiors of a 128-foot Feadship yacht; the bridge deck’s sky lounge functions as a game room and theater.
Photo: Ngoc Minh Ngo12/16In this Brazilian villa designed by Isay Weinfeld, shelves built above the cinema room’s windows outline the perimeter of a sunken seating area.
Photo: Robert Reck13/16The screening room of a Texas ranch devised by John Cattrell accommodates 36 guests in leather-upholstered, motorized seats.
Photo: Roger Davies14/16In Will and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Malibu home, whose interiors are by Judith Lance, the screening room includes luxurious upholstered club chairs, a cushioned daybed suspended from the ceiling, classically styled millwork, and Moroccan lanterns.
Photo: Scott Frances15/16The theater of this Connecticut home—designed by Theo Kalomirakis, complete with a snack bar—is reminiscent of a 1950s drive-in. Using real cars proved impossible, but Kalomirakis and his team located a maker of theater seats modeled after cars of the era.
16/16In Khloé Kardashian’s Los Angeles residence, decorated by Martyn Lawrence Bullard, luxurious fabrics make for cozy movie nights in the screening room.
