While home theaters are great places to have fun with room design, getting carried away with over-the-top colors can actually hurt the image being displayed on your TV or projector screen. If you paint your walls a bright red, for example, the picture will have a reddish cast because light from your projector or big-screen TV will reflect onto the sidewalls and bounce back onto the screen. For this reason, many high-end theaters are dressed in brown, grey, black, or other dark colors. These deeper hues absorb light, rather than reflect it back onto the screen.
