What’s the best size for home cinema seating?

Home cinema seating dimensions decide the comforts and experience and feelings when you are watching a movie. Choosing the right size ensures better posture, ease of use, and overall enjoyment during film viewing.

Most home theater seats are designed to accommodate individuals between 155–182 cm (5’1″–6’0″) in height. However, if you or your family members are taller or shorter than average, it’s important to consider specialized seating options that suit your body size.

So when you are choosing your home cinema seating, it is better for you to talk to your supplier about you and your family height to work out the most comfortable seats.

If you don’t talk to them, you may choose some big designs that you like but that is actually not comfortable for you. If you choose a big design and you are 165 cm high, but that chair is for people more than 192 cm high, then you will be difficult to touch some buttons and use some functions. Or your head will not be comfortable because of shorter than the headrest.

For example, I am 163 cm and if I sit on this design LS-876G below, I feel difficult to touch the buttons on the sides. And I am too small on this seat. My head is lower than the headrest.

But for big guys who is more than 183 cm, this chair is a very good option. The design looks very grand, elegant and luxurious. Most importantly, it is very comfortable for big guys.

If you are tall and choose some smaller designs, your head won’t be able to properly supported and your leg will be limited. It will also be a disaster sitting on that small chair for you.

For example, LS-6107E, this is a low back design. The seat cushion width of it is enough and vomfortable for most of the people. But for some people who is 192 cm, it is still short and not high enough. As a result, the tall people feel not stretched and comfortable enough. If you are 192 cm and like this design, you need to talk to us to do some adjustment on the chair to make it suitable for you.

So choosing the appropriate dimensions for cinema room armchairs is very important.

The overall dimensions of the seating are all very important. While there are a few paremeters you need to pay special attention.

The overall height: the distance from the floor to the top point of the headrest is the full height. It is usually between 98 – 110 cm for average height people. Big chair designs for big guys are usually 115 cm or more.

Seat cushion width: One of the most important size is the seat cushion width. Generally, standard home cinema chairs seat cushion width is around 58 – 60 cm. For those people who are very tall and big, you can choose to add 7cm or more on some chair designs, making it around 65 cm or 75 cm or even more. This will be very comfortable for big guy sitting on it. Most of the movie chair designs from Linsen Seating can be added to 65 cm wide. But not all the designs can be wider as expected. We need to discuss about it specifically.

Chair arm width: Standard chair arm is 13 – 18 cm. Some people like big arm for more comforts, it can be made into 20, 22, 25 or even 30 cm if you have enough space. Big arms also makes the chair looks more impressive and upscale.

Length after stretching out: The distance from the feet rest to the head top after chair fully reclined. This length decide if you have enough support for your leg and head. You also need take this into your top consideration.

After you check these dimensions that is suitable for you, you will be able to choose a ery comfortable recliner chair for your home cinema.

At Linsen Seating, we offer tailored solutions to ensure your home theater chairs match your body type and room dimensions. If you’re especially tall or have unique requirements, we can adjust existing designs like LS-6107E (a low-back model) to better support your height and comfort preferences.