What I described is how I did my room. I even put imitation black velvet curtains on the wall behind the screen and a black 10x12 finished rug under the screen over brown carpets that I got from Home Depot. Anything I could to keep light reflections down to a minimum. These things are fairly inexpensive things to do and with a projector that has good black levels(more important than blazing high light levels)can look good even with low lumens. Any projector will be bright enough.Still using my Pioneer Elite Pro-FPJ1 Kuro projector from 2009. There is plenty of brightness(600 lumens) even in these projectors if you fix up the room correctly. For example- no window light, black ceilings, brown walls, dark carpets(like theaters do). I am not looking forward to the day that I have to replace.
What I described is how I did my room. I even put imitation black velvet curtains on the wall behind the screen and a black 10x12 finished rug under the screen over brown carpets that I got from Home Depot. Anything I could to keep light reflections down to a minimum. These things are fairly inexpensive things to do and with a projector that has good black levels(more important than blazing high light levels)can look good even with low lumens. Any projector will be bright enough.
But when I was a teenager the room would have black light posters on the walls for sureThis is a dedicated home theater room. The rest of the house is white walls.