DIY Home Theater Hacks & Essentials for the Perfect Setup
An overview of everything you need to think about when creating a home theater!
When Covid-19 arrived, everything changed. The movie theater has always been one of my safe, happy places. But, suddenly, all indoor spaces were places of inherent danger.
Stuck inside, I knew that I needed to introduce some changes to the stifling, overpriced, 500 square foot apartment my partner and I shared. With some elbow grease, I was able to turn our living room into a bastion of comfort with hardly any money at all.
You don’t need a lot of money to make a home theater! Light is your enemy when it comes to a home theater. Once you can make your space dark enough, even a cheap Chinese $100 projector will dazzle. And from there, it’s all a matter of taste.
The very first commercial movie theater was at the 1983 Chicago World’s Fair in a special building designed specifically to showcase Edward Muybridge’s Zoopraxiscope. In a series of lectures on animal locomotion, the public was able to view (in Muybridge’s own words) “synthetically demonstrated movements photographed from life.”
We have come a long way from these early public theaters, yet the fascination with theaters remains. There’s something delightfully…
