Curtains for projector in living room

[Naturelover]

Renovation has nearly finished and am getting ready to set up the AV. I have bought the Epson TW8100!
Am a little unsure of the style of curtains to use for the two windows in this room. One is on the north wall and the other on the east wall. The screen is on the south side.
I want to use curtains like this with rod and eyelets. The curtain will have dark backing cloth so no light will pass through the cloth itself. My concern is the light coming through the folds on the top and bottom of the curtains. Will it be too much for daytime viewing? Daytime viewing is very important.
I have seen here and elsewhere that the TW8100 can be used comfortably with some amount of light in the room. Rajdeeps's albums for his Epson 8500UB (2010 top model for epson & the predecessor to TW8100) were a good source. See posts 41 to 45 of this thread.

On the other hand I was also wondering if it will actually be good to have some light coming through since this is a living room. That is only if it is low enough.

 

[rajadeep]

I personally think it's fine. The Tw8100 is a powerful projector. Plus during the day time a little light peaking from the curtains is not a bad thing at all. Infact during the day I think it gives a nice feel. As You have seen in my pics my present curtains pass through a lot more light than I prefer but that hasn't my watching a movie during the day projecting a 180inch screen on a cream wall with reflective granite as the flooring . You will be projecting on a proper screen with a much more powerful projector. The worst case scenario is you will have to watch during the day in the living room mode but I doubt you will have to. Enjoy your setup & have a projector room warming party with a few hifivision members.

 

[sash]

For a projector based setup, a perfect dark room with dark walls and ceiling is the best. That said, Epsons are very bright projectors and you will not notice the light seepage through curtain boundaries once the projector is turned on. IMHO a bigger problem is light colored walls and ceiling which will reflect a lot of light that your screen reflects. This has always been a bigger problem for me and i'm tackling that by first painting the ceiling black and now by sticking some black craft paper on the front half of the side walls. The screen wall was dark to start with.