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ARTICLE ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARTFORD MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2016

For Optimal Sports Viewing, You Need a Winning Plan

Creating a home theater or media viewing room should be easy, right? Big screen, comfy chairs, and you’re done? Depending on the scale of your ambitions (and your TV of movie screen), creating a relaxing space that’s designed to accommodate a multitude of viewers may require a bit more than that.

If you want the room done right, “It requires a lot of planning,” says interior designer Sharon McCormick, owner of Sharon McCormick Design in Durham.

Whether the space is large or small, or whether the job is contract out to professionals or done as a DIY weekend project, the elements to be considered are essentially the same. We asked two interior designers and one fairly handy homeowner to give us a play by play.