Simple Upgrade Morphs into Extravagant Home Theater
By Arlen Schweiger
Homeowners didn't believe transformation was possible because of three large windows along the back wall.

Exhaustive barely begins to describe the labor of love that went into this home theater. It wasn’t even supposed to be a dedicated theater, because the three large windows along the back wall led the owners to believe such a transformation would not be possible.

But that’s not what home theater designer Tyler Worthington of Worthington Entertainment and Automation thought when he inspected the room. He noticed it already had two layers of sound isolation material and dedicated power circuits for A/V gear, because the previous homeowners used it as a basic theater room.



“The owners originally just wanted to replace the equipment and add some cheap speakers and a projector,” Worthington says. “We told them we can throw some equipment in there and they’ll have a nice multipurpose TV-viewing room … or we could build them a world-class theater.”

The owners chose option B. They then gave Worthington free reign over the room, with the only real directive of making it look grand.

The finished product - gold-leaf ceiling stenciling and stucco texture were added later - is the result of more than 1,200 hours of craftsmanship, according to Worthington.

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