Home Theater with Waterfalls

He started by pushing out the back wall four feet to elongate the room. "Rectangular-shaped rooms are acoustically better than square-shaped rooms," DeGaetano explains. The build-out required removing a load-bearing wall, so Futureview added new support columns to shore up the space. The columns could have easily detracted from the design, but Futureview used them to create three cozy seating nooks, a feature that's now become one of the company's most popular client requests. The nooks can be illuminated independent of the rest of the room, and Futureview positioned the fixtures so that even when these lights are on, they won't interfere with the picture on the screen. Completing this unique bench-style viewing area is an outlet where the family can plug a Sony Xbox console or a laptop computer into the system for a big-screen gaming experience.