How To Design The Perfect Media Room [2024]
Your family deserves an intentionally planned, impeccably designed Media Room to spend quality time enjoying movies, gaming, or relaxing together. Our professional home designers have thought of everything to optimize the time you spend in your customized house because we know these memories and the time you spend with the people you love are precious. Let’s talk about designing your very own Media Room.
Read on to learn 5 helpful considerations to keep in mind as you dream up your custom Media Room.
LOCATION IN YOUR FLOOR PLAN
Consider how you’d like to use your Media Room and where you’d like it to be. Is your Media Room the heart of your home? Will you use this space like a living room or will it be for special occasions?
Some of our custom home-building clients in Norman, Oklahoma like to have their Media Room on a wing on the first floor. This makes it not only more accessible to visitors of all ages and mobility levels but also allows it to serve secondary purposes. If you have a pool or hot tub in your home or you spend a lot of time in the backyard, you may want to consider adding a door with patio access to this room. It can be used as an additional place to change into swimwear, or a place to continue entertaining once it’s time to come indoors.
EN SUITE LUXURIES
If you’d rather opt for a private and exclusive vibe, many of our clients choose to build their Media Room on the second floor. Maybe this room is more of a retreat for you or your spouse and less of a family room. When locating your Media Room upstairs, consider adding a sink, a small bar, and a beverage refrigerator in this space for convenience.
Wherever you place your Media Room, be sure to keep in mind that you’ll want to have a bathroom close by. Many upstairs Media Rooms include en suite powder rooms or guest bathrooms. Your home designer can help you design a room that makes sense for your family’s unique needs. It may make sense to build a Jack-and-Jill-style bathroom that joins up with a bedroom while still serving your Media Room. The perfect customized home is all about your lifestyle and how you see yourself using your space!
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PROJECTOR OR FLAT SCREEN
Once you’ve decided where your customized Media Room will be located within your floor plan, your home designer can provide a better idea about how much square footage you can dedicate to this room by using calculations relevant to your lot size. They’ll be able to offer a 3D rendering to provide a better idea of how the space will look, feel, and interact with sunlight if there are windows in your room. Once you have a feel for the space, you and your home designer can choose where you’ll position your screen, projectors, and other mounted electronic devices.
Finalize the dimensions of the screen you’ll be installing and let your home designer know so they can include these in their plans. This way, when it’s time to build your custom home, your builder can easily include wall recesses for cabling and other electronics.
SEATING
Let your home designer know what kind of seating you’d like in your Media Room. Some homeowners like the option to bring in sectionals and recliners that match their personal aesthetic, while other homeowners opt to install home theater riser platforms that add a layer of authenticity and allow for auditorium-type seating.
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CUSTOM SHELVING
Once you’ve decided on your room’s layout, you can opt for custom shelving and build-ins to suit your lifestyle and storage needs. If you’re a DVD or VHS collector, our custom home designers can help you design custom storage utility cabinets or shelving for your collection.
If you’d like to include a microwave in the space to heat up popcorn, have your designer include countertops, cabinetry, and a sink.
Depending on how much space you have, you could also include storage bureaus for games or gaming accessories, blankets, and extra pillows.
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