Room-by-room home cinema plans
Plan a home theater that fits your room and your budget.
Premium Home Theaters puts complete rooms together: the projector or TV, the screen, the speakers and the seating for a given room size and budget, with the reasoning behind each choice and the manufacturer figures that support it.
What we publish
Written for: People planning a dedicated cinema room or a living-room theater who want a complete, coherent system.
Rooms by size
Small, medium and large room plans: image size, seating distance and speaker layout for each.
Systems by budget
What a coherent system looks like at different budgets, and where to spend first.
Atmos layout calculator
Where the height speakers go for your room's size and seating position.
Latest guides
Room plan
Home theater sound in an apartment: soundbar or AV receiver and speakers?A plan for small rooms and shared walls: when a soundbar is the right choice, when separates are, and how to keep the bass and the late-night volume in check.
Room plan
Projector home theater for a medium living room: screen, seating and sound planA complete plan for a living room of about 4 x 5 m: screen size for the seating distance, where the projector goes, which screen, and a 5.1 or 5.1.2 layout.
Room plan
Small-room home theater plan: a 12 × 15 ft room with a 5.1.2 Dolby Atmos layoutA complete plan for a small dedicated room: where the seat goes, how big the screen should be, where each of the eight speakers sits and how to deal with bass.
How we work
- Sources first. Every figure comes from the manufacturer's published information or from published reviews, and we link to them.
- No invented ratings. We only show a score when we can say where it comes from and how it was calculated.
- We do not sell products. Some manufacturers pay us to create content about their brands; those pieces say so at the top. More about how we work.