A theater built around you.

The best time to design a dedicated theater is before the walls exist. In new construction across Castle Rock, Parker, and Highlands Ranch, we work with the builder to plan the room's dimensions, door and window placement, and structural bulkheads for acoustic treatment during framing, which is roughly half the cost of doing the same work after drywall is up. We also route conduit for projector power and signal, speaker wire to every planned location, and HVAC that won't create audible airflow noise once the room is finished.

Most of our theater work, though, happens in existing homes — converting an underused basement bonus room, walk-out lower level, or bonus room over a garage into a dedicated theater. Denver's high percentage of finished and unfinished basements gives a lot of homes a natural theater candidate: below grade, already somewhat isolated from the rest of the house, and rarely competing with great natural light the way an above-grade room would. We assess ceiling height, HVAC supply, electrical capacity, and existing framing before finalizing a design, since a low basement ceiling changes screen size and seating riser decisions.

A theater's sound quality depends as much on the room's acoustic treatment as on the equipment inside it. Bare drywall reflects sound unevenly, causing echo and muddying dialogue, so we add absorption and diffusion panels at calculated first-reflection points, often upholstered in fabric that matches the room's design rather than looking like foam tiles in a garage studio. For homes where the theater sits below a bedroom or beside a home office, we add mass-loaded vinyl, resilient channel, or double drywall in the shared wall and ceiling assembly to keep bass from traveling through the house — a real concern in two-story homes across Lakewood and Littleton where a theater and a nursery might share a floor.

Denver's dry climate actually helps acoustic material perform consistently, since humidity swings that can affect fabric-wrapped panels elsewhere are less of an issue here. We calibrate every system to industry reference standards once treatment is in place, since even great equipment sounds wrong in an untreated or over-treated room.

We start with a design phase covering seating layout, screen size and placement based on true sightlines, and equipment selection sized to the room's dimensions rather than a generic package. From there we produce a fixed-bid scope before any work starts, since theater projects vary too much in ambition to price without seeing the space.

Installation covers structural and acoustic work, projector and screen mounting, full surround and overhead Atmos speaker placement, rack build-out, lighting control for scene-based dimming, and calibration once everything is in place. We finish with a walkthrough covering every control scene, so the room genuinely operates with one button press rather than requiring anyone to remember an equipment sequence.