New Home Construction - How big should the A/V room be?

[owlfan12000]

I'm building a new home in Oklahoma. Right now the media room is 11' x 23' but that is mainly due to the size of the rooms next to it. How do I decide how big the room should be? Do you have some sort of a guide that translates screen size to room size?

For what it's worth when I think of a budget for a system I found my self drawn to your $5K to $7.5K videocentric systems.

 

[Gimpy Ric]

Congradulations on getting to build an A/V room from the ground up. I can't help you with your room size, but I do know this, Now is time to get it together and plan on your electronics install. I built a house in Florida and had an A/V Company come in and wire my equipment closet, Zone 1, and Zone 2, those being the great room and master bedroom RIGHT AFTER the electricians. I used Niles everywhere I could, and even ran speakers in the garage! Yes we used the garage speakers quit often over the years.

I would have wired it myself, but I'm in a wheelchair and those days are gone. Anyways, everything but my speakers were hidden. I can't wait to do it again

 

[bpape]

For the most part, the bigger the better in terms of room size. I'd stay away from 11x22 since those are double each other obviously. There are no perfect dimensions - all one can do is avoid particularly bad ones.

As for wiring, please, please do your planning early. I can't tell you how many rooms have been compromised in terms of setup by having wiring done and then realizing that it's not in the best place.

Bryan

 

[AVRat]

Unfortunately there are many variables taken into account when building a HT from scratch making the decisions difficult. For example, in that room you could have a 108"x60" (124" dia) acoustically tranparent screen w/ speakers behind it or a 87"x49" (100" dia) screen w/ in-room speakers. Either way you still have room for multi-tier seating.