Total blackout

I've been looking through a lot of examples of a home cinema rooms, and have not seen a total blackout room.

My plan is to make my cinema totally black (apart from the screen), so the floors, ceiling, walls and furniture will be black.

I was just wondering if there were any negative points to doing this seen as though people tend to prefer reds and other darker colours?

Thanks

[mattym]

from an acoustic product point of view its difficult as the products would have to be fabric wrapped in black as black foam in suitable thicknesses costs and arm and a leg to produce....the cost there fore becomes prohibitive unless you use a fabric wall system

[ReggieDaMole]

fabric, black foam ??? I think he just meant to paint the wall black and have blcak carpet and sofa ....

[inzaman]

DigiTALGuy, I cannot forsee any problems with going total black on everything. Mr Bump has gone pretty much black with the exception of a red carpet, which looks neat, see here

[mattym]

Originally Posted by ReggieDaMole

fabric, black foam ??? I think he just meant to paint the wall black and have blcak carpet and sofa ....

as i said, from an acoustic point of view!

[Mad Mr H]

Total black,

nice idea,

that means you will be fitting a CRT projector instead of one of those GREY black digital units then.


You might find that all black give you some small issues of disorientation - most people require a referance point of some sort,