Features: The Ultimate Philadelphia Dream House

THE Screening room

 Red velvet walls are so Hollywood. Or, more precisely, classic Hollywood. Rita Hayworth Hollywood. Here’s-looking-at-you-kid Hollywood. That’s what designer Andrea Heffler wanted for this Miquon screening room—the old-time movie theater feel, all the way down to the brass and velvet rope railing, the popcorn machine, the patterned wool carpet, the antiqued built-ins. But these days, a screening room is only cool if it has the ultramodern effects—the soundproof walls, the electronic shades, the fully reclining leather seats, and, of course, the 110-inch Stewart Finehawk screen, Sim2 DLP projector, Meridian digital sound processor, and mini-speakers from HiFi House in Jenkintown. Heffler’s favorite element? The ceiling, with 2,000 twinkling fiber-optic stars.
 
Do-It-Yourself: “Get the biggest screen you can,” says Heffler, though she thinks you can get the theater feel much more simply … with a popcorn machine. The smell alone makes the room. —V.G.

Andrea Lynn Interiors; 610-608-2567.