• Design your home theater for maximum enjoyment.luxury home movie theater image by Nikolay Okhitin from Fotolia.com
  
  A home theater is a way to take your family to movie night any day of the week, regardless of the weather. The cost of a home theater compared to spending money on a night out at the movies can be recouped over time. In order to get the most out of your home theater, there are design tips you should consider.
  
  

Reflective Surfaces

• The way sound travels in a room can affect how you enjoy your home theater, according to online digital equipment resource Digital Trends. Hard surfaces tend to reflect sound, allowing it to bounce all around the room. This disperses the sound, making it sound thin. It can also cause feedback if you are trying to listen to your movies at a higher volume. Cover your hardwood floors with rugs, and you may even want to install decorative rugs on your walls as well. Leather tends to reflect sound, so use upholstered furniture instead. Cover your windows with thick curtains that will capture the sound and keep out ambient light.
  
  

Seating

• According to "Home Theater" magazine, the kind of seating you use in a home theater can affect the experience you have. Avoid using recliners in your home theater and instead offer people padded footstools to rest their feet on. A recliner invites people to change their position and put themselves at an angle. Not only will the person reclining change how they hear the sound, but the people around him will also be effected as the sound waves are now traveling in a different direction.
  
  

Furniture

• One of the things that can minimize the home theater experience is glare, according to "Home Theater Design" magazine. The way to cut down on glare in your home theater is to make sure all sources of outside light such as exterior windows and interior doors with windows on them, are covered with a heavy curtain. Light reflects just as sound does, and the material that reflects light the best is glass. Avoid glass table tops, glass decorations or any kind of glass in your home theater. It can catch the light from the screen and cause a glare back on the screen, or it can cause the glare to shine in your eyes.