Tame the Bright Lights of Hollywood with Fabric Wall Coverings

Fabric wall coverings are the perfect addition to your home theater design. They are a great alternative to acoustic panels and tiles for sound absorption. However, fabric wall coverings are not exclusively selected for their sound absorption qualities. They are also a great addition to your home theater space for reducing the reflective surfaces in your home theater area.

Fabric wall coverings are able to reduce light reflections because they have a matte finish and do not sag, dent, or fade. They simply act as a wall more than anything with a matted drywall look. An added bonus with fabric wall coverings is the possibility of including a photograph as a fabric wall mural. Your home theater design professional can make sure the fabric contains the right colors for the home theater and that it is not too busy or too reflective for the room. Not only can the fabric be used as a wall covering but also a covering for the ceiling.

Just as the fabric can be integrated with specially chosen graphics, the same may be done for your ceiling. You can use photographs or you can use an image, if you have a graphic you want to put up. Your choices are fairly unlimited. The fabric is a very common material that is actually being used a lot for restaurants and commercial spaces because of the dampening of the sound. Because the coverings are fabric, they are easily adapted to the most popular areas for home theaters and home theater design.

Because a lot of home theaters are built in basements and basements sometimes have the suspended tile ceilings, it is important to be able to integrate the fabric wall covering to the suspended tile ceilings that are found in most basements. The fabric actually goes under the ceiling. It is installed exactly like the coverings for the wall, except it would be under the ceiling currently installed. And, it is a hundred percent fireproof. In addition, the ceiling coverings may contain more popular designs found in home theaters today. For example, if you prefer to do a star ceiling you could just order the fabric with a photograph with a constellation or something printed on it and you might be able to add the fiber optic lighting by having your designer or installer cut the necessary holes to accommodate the fiber optics.

Another interesting idea allows you to replicate an old fashioned theater and simulate tin ceilings. You can actually use this canvas and make it look like tin. You use a picture of something that represents what you would like to see on the ceiling. The result is the image you want to see without having to go to all the effort and expense of actually making a tin ceiling. So you can really create a theater without spending all of the money. Also, if you wanted to get a picture of some theater curtains, or even a picture, an actual photograph, of a theater, it will look three dimensional, as if you had those actual curtains hanging on the wall but it would actually be part of the photograph.

Not only do they insulate sound and reduce light reflection, fabric wall coverings are an interesting and unique way of bringing in other design ideas without having to spend the money to buy those products when you can just represent them on a photograph.