Ways to Decorate a Bedroom to Look Like a Movie Theatre

Walls

• The walls offer a blank canvas suitable for recreating that movie theater vibe in several ways. Paint walls a neutral color, or a dark shade if you like to watch movies in the bedroom without being able to notice the walls so easily. Add a few theater-style sconces that emit just enough ambient light to know where the walls are. Decorate the walls with framed movie posters from current attractions, or go the retro route with a theme of your choice, such as Japanese monster movies, B movies or comedies featuring some of your favorite films.

Floors

• For a realistic theater effect, cover the floor with a durable carpet similar to the type found in theater lobbies or concession areas. Add a red carpet runner along a path to the bed to give the room a touch of the red-carpet Hollywood premiere or movie star treatment. Add tiny stick-on puck lights near the floor and on the sides of walls or furnishings, emulating the look of the lights along aisle seats in the theater

Furnishings

• Set a row of vintage movie theater seats along a wall of the room, perhaps the back wall if an opposite wall is dedicated as a movie viewing area complete with flat screen or pull-down screen. Use modern home theater seating instead, if you prefer the comfort. Place a light-emitting diode tealight or battery operated light inside a white plastic popcorn tub or a paper popcorn bag to provide themed ambient lighting atop a table or desk. Add a cup holder to the side of a nightstand or piece of furniture near where you might view movies as a functional homage to drink placement in a movie theater.

Accessories

• Place an old film projector atop a table, pointing at the TV or screen on an opposite wall, as if the projector is still in use. Attach a pull-down movie screen to a ceiling to create a viewing environment if you have an actual functioning projector, modern or vintage. Instead of a pull-down screen, paint a slightly rounded white or blue viewing area on one wall to recreate the look of a movie theater screen before the film begins.