Complete Your Home Theatre With These Blinds

The Best Window Shades For A Home Cinema

*Blog updated 04/01/2024 to reflect changes to product range*

Thanks to all of the events of the past couple of years, most of us haven’t had a chance to go to the cinema in a while, after all they were closed for pretty much all throughout the lockdowns and have only recently started opening up again properly.

As taking a trip to the cinema has been off the cards for many people for a while, lots of people have decided to make their own cinema at home so they can get the theatre experience at home. Many home movie theatres have popped up in houses across the country as people turn spare rooms into movie rooms.

Whether you’ve got your eyes glued to the latest blockbuster or if you’re just kicking back and watching your favourite sit-com, you’ll want your movie room to be nice and dark so that you get the best picture possible on your screen.

To do that, you’re going to need some window shades to help keep your at-home movie theatre dark and atmospheric! But what window shades work best?  Well today we’re going to walk you through our best window shades for home movie theatres, so read on to find out!

First Things First, It’s Blackout or Bust!

As we mentioned, one of the most important things your home theatre needs is darkness! And the best way to keep a room dark is with shades made from a blackout fabric or with a set of our Total Blackout Cassette Blinds!

Unlike regular dimout fabrics, blackout fabrics will completely block off light from entering the room through the blind itself and our cassette blinds also block any light that would leak around the edge of the blind fabric, giving you the dark space required.

Whether you opt for blinds or curtains, make sure your window shades are made from a blackout material if you want the best home cinema experience.

Give A Cinema Feel With Red Shades

If you want an even more authentic cinema experience, you can use your window shades to add some cinema-like pizazz to your media room. You can recreate the aesthetic of a cinema at home by choosing red coloured window shades.

Red window shades will give your home theatre a nice cinema style look, which is sure to wow guests and help you get immersed in the home cinema experience!

Now that we’ve covered the basics, lets have a look at which of our window shading options will work best for your home theatre!

Our Top Pick:  Bosa Cherry Total Blackout Cassette Blind

Our Bosa Cherry Total Blackout Cassette Blind is the crème de la crème when it comes to home cinema-friendly blackout blinds. With our cassetted blackout blinds, you get the ultimate blackout experience as the blind’s fabric blocks light passing through it and the cassette system prevents any light leaking in around the edge of the fabric, creating unparalleled levels of darkness.

We chose the Bosa Cherry Total Blackout Cassette Blind specifically as it’s stunning red finish is incredibly reminiscent of the curtains you’d see in a real cinema, which makes this cassette blind the perfect blind for your home cinema.

If this blind’s fancy red finish isn’t for you, you can check out our full range of cassette blinds here, all of which will provide your home theatre with an authentic cinema feel.

Bosa Reflect Scarlet Blackout Roller Blind

Our Bosa Reflect Scarlet Roller Blind is perfect for home cinemas! The luxurious scarlet colour is striking and very reminiscent of the curtains you’d see at a theatre or cinema, which will you’re your home theatre the authentic cinema feel.

This blind is also made from our Bosa Reflect blackout fabric, which is incredibly good at keeping light from entering your home, so with these you will create a nice, dark environment to watch your films in.

This blind is also a good choice, if you’re designing your home cinema on a budget, as these blinds are very budget friendly, with prices starting from £9.60!

Ketchikan Scarlet Curtain (With Blackout Lining)

Our Ketchikan Scarlet Curtain is another excellent choice for shading your cinema room at home. While blinds may give you the feel of stage curtains, these curtains will perfectly replicate the stage curtains you see at cinemas and give your home cinema an incredibly authentic look, which is sure to impress guests!

Just make sure that you select the blackout lining option if you purchase this excellent home cinema curtain, the blackout lining will do an excellent job keeping your home theatre atmospheric and dark. Whereas the light filtering option would let light pour into the film room.

If you’re not a fan of curtains, the Ketchikan Scarlet fabric is also available as a Roman Blind!

Toscana Black/White Blackout Roller Blind

If bright red window shades feel a bit too grand for your home cinema and you’d prefer something a bit more minimalist and subtle then our Toscana Black/White Blackout Roller Blind may be the right blind for your home cinema.

Made in a nice black colour which won’t draw too much attention, but will do the job of keeping your home cinema dark as well as any other blackout roller blind. If you’re just looking to keep your home cinema dark, this will do the job perfectly!

As a bonus, the rear side of this blind is made in a white finish, so when you’re not using the room as a cinema, you can swap the direction of the roller around to give you a lighter white blind, which will make the room more homely!

BONUS BLIND - Udine White Premium XL Mains Electric Blackout Roller Blind For Projectors!

If you have a projector in your home cinema rather than a large TV screen, then you’ll need something to project your film onto and our Udine White Blackout XL Mains Electric Roller Blind is a perfect blind to project your films onto.

This white blind will give a perfect white backing, which ideal for using with projectors and will help give you a nice picture from your projector. As this blind is also a blackout blind, it will stop any light from the projector leaking through the screen as well!

However, the biggest bonus of this, is that this blind is electrically operated, much like the projector screen at a real cinema. This can give you an incredibly authentic home cinema experience and wow guests as you bring the screen down remotely!

Wrapping Up

We’ve given you some advice on picking the right window blinds for your home cinema and we’ve even given you some of our best recommendations to give your home movie theater the authentic cinema feel to it.

Of course, any blackout blind or curtain will effectively do the job, but we’ve selected some of our favourite home cinema window shades (and even a recommendation for a projector screen!), so feel free to pick the window shades for your home cinema based on your personal style preferences if you wish…. Just make sure it’s a blackout!