Home Theater Design Plans

Can’t figure out how to design your home theater? Try getting ideas from home theater design plans. Design plans offer a rough guide to various aspects of home theater layout, including screen location, speaker placement, and viewing distance and angles. While each brand will have its own placement guide, looking at plans will help you get acquainted with basic home theater design.

The Internet is the best source for home theater design plans. You’ll usually find them on Canadian home theater magazines and home design websites, along with pictures of actual home theaters. For starters, you can look up the search term on Google’s image search—it should turn up dozens of plans you can use for your home.

If you want more user-friendly advice, you can try joining a Canadian home theater forum. Forums allow you to interact with other home theater owners and get useful buying and installation advice. Although they’re not exactly experts, but they’ll give you firsthand information that may not be covered by other websites.

You may also be able to get some tips from your Canadian home theater dealer. After buying your equipment, you may be offered professional installation services for free or for a small fee. If you want to set up the system yourself, ask for a home theater layout guide from the shop to make sure you get it right.