Home Theater Mistakes

Home Theater Mistakes to Avoid

When putting together your home theater, you can avoid common mistakes by planning and researching what is available to you and what type of space you want to create in your home. Because we are the experts at SofasandSectionals.com, we can advise you on the issues we hear about from our customers.

Here’s a sample of some of the issues we have heard from our customers and the best ways to solve them:

Seat Backs Are Too Short
   
Jane, a customer from Atlanta, GA came to us because she found that the backs of her theater seats were too low. This meant that her husband complained after a little while of sitting in his theater seat, and he didn’t even want to watch movies in their new home theater. Jane, who had built the room for him as a surprise, asked us to help. We asked her to measure some the seating around her home that her husband enjoyed so she could better understand what type of height would work for him. There are a wide range of styles and sizes available for home theater seating – often people like to have a high back so they can rest their back while they are watching television or a movie.

Because of our wide selection of brands and styles, Jane was able to select a Berkline Sydney, which has a tall back at over 40 inches. After receiving and installing her new home theater seating, Jane emailed us to thank us. Not only did her husband love his new seating, the kids were enjoying it too.

Seats Too Wide For The Space

Mel from Chicago came to us with a big problem – the seats he had ordered were too wide for his home theater space and he literally had boxes sitting in his living room, a week before the Super Bowl. He had already invited all of his friends over to enjoy the big game, had all of his equipment installed, but no seating.

It wasn’t too late for Mel to have his big party. Mel measured his home theater one more time and we were able to help him figure out how many seats he could fit comfortably in his space. The mistake he had made the first time around was that he did not consider how much space total he had for his theater seating to figure out how many seats he could have in his media room.

In order to avoid this, measure your space and then figure out how many seats you would like. Based on that equation, you can select the right sized seating for your space.

For Mel, we helped him to not only figure out what seats would work best, but we were able to even get him his furniture before the big day.

Uncomfortable Fabrics

Tish from Washington, DC came to us because she could not find a fabric she liked. She had been around to many stores and could not seem to find the right color and texture for her home theater seating. She had even tried different leathers and found most of them too unyielding for her seating.

The fabric is very important to your theater experience. Often, poor quality leather can be sticky or too harsh for many people. Bonded leather, which is offered by manufactures such as Berkline, is soft to the touch. We offer the largest range of fabrics available for home theater seating on the web. If you use a microfiber or nice cotton, often you can have seating that is softer and more comfortable. In addition, you can add features to protect your fabric from stains, pulls and tears.

We were able to help Tish with her fabric concerns by offering her free Federal Express shipping of a choice of fabrics, as we do with all of our customers. Because you can touch and see the fabrics before you order your furniture, you can feel confidant about your purchase.

Before you select your fabrics for your home theater furniture, make sure that you are able to see and touch the fabrics you are interested in. By doing this, you will be more confident about your choice and can feel good about your new home theater seating!

Reclining and Other Options

We recently heard from Gus in Ventura, California about the types of options available for home theater seating. At Sofas and Sectionals, we provide our customers with access to the manufactures with the largest range of options in seating for your home theater.

Gus was replacing old theater seating and he complained about how the manual recline feature often left him stuck in the recline position or sometimes left his daughter unable to recline in her seat.  Our sales consultant told Gus about power recline, which give you and your guests the ability to recline with the simple touch of a button. This was a feature that Gus was interested in learning more about and with the guidance of our sales consultant, created a home theater that he is still enjoying.

Power recline is just one example of a feature that people many not know is out there but can save them time and energy, leaving them to enjoy their home theater.

Other features that can add to your home theater include:

-    Features that allow you to recline when you don’t have a lot of space between your home theater seating and the wall.    
-    Features that allow for furniture to be easily assembled and disassembled.
-    Features that can add to the sound of your home theater.

At SofasandSectionals.com, we offer the largest selection of home theater seating out there. With our range of manufactures and options, as well as our experience with home theaters, we can help you avoid the common mistakes we see with many customers and help you design the home theater you have always wanted.

Call us today to begin creating the home theater of your dreams!