Homebuyers sit down to popcorn, movies in classic home cinemas

FILM fanatics are enjoying the silver screen in style all in their own homes. We’ve found five greats to bite into a choc top and a bucket of popcorn.

Melbourne’s classic home theatres

FROM Star Wars fanatics to lovers of western classics, there are plenty of homeowners that have developed a love for home cinemas.

A host of properties spread across Melbourne have been designed with custom-built cinemas sporting features like stepped floors, starlit ceilings and state-of-the-art surround sound and projection systems.

Check out the five homes with gold class cinemas worth popping out the popcorn.

6 Brook St, Caroline Springs

Here’s a room that will tug at the heart strings of any true sci-fi fan.

With a collage of comic book covers decorating the feature wall, this home theatre room has elevated flooring just like you get at the movies.

It’s an entertaining feature of this contemporary four-bedroom home with a formal lounge, large family living area overlooking wetlands through large picture windows.

Entertaining continues outside with a pool and deck amid a generous backyard.

The property is on the market with YPA, Caroline Springs, for $1 million-plus.

23 Hertford Cres, Balwyn

Enjoy a true gold class experience in the six-seater home theatre within this contemporary home.

The sleek and state-of-the-art interior of this home offers a wide choice of entertaining options, including preparing a teppanyaki banquet in the outdoor kitchen before the screening starts.

All this could be yours for more than $3 million.

Selling agent Mike Dehnert, of Fletchers, Canterbury, said home theatres were an added feature of a home, and particularly popular with young kids.

They were not only designed to screen movies, but as multi-use spaces for devices like Xbox.

“Kids love them and so do a lot of adults,” he said.

43 The Regency, Hillside

This is not just a home theatre, it’s home entertainment complex.

The theatre room has built-in cabinetry, a projector and 2.5m screen. It connects to a billiard room with a full Victorian Ash wet bar.

“It’s a very cool room. It’s got all the sports memorabilia and it's a very up-market man-cave,” said selling agent Dean Clements, of Raine & Horne, Caroline Springs.

This area is a small part of this sprawling four-bedroom home that has an indoor pool, CBUS lighting and a designer kitchen with 1200mm Italian falcon oven.

It’s on the market for $1-$1.1 million.

16 Meridian Drive, South Morang

The owners have gone all-out on this home theatre, with double-insulated soundproof walls and casino-grade woollen carpet to ensure you can turn the sound up, the lights down and not bother other occupants in this enormous house. And there’s plenty of room for luxury gold-class recliners.

The enormous modern 1700s new-classical French style home is set over three storeys with five bedrooms, a MasterChef inspired kitchen with a butler’s pantry adjoining enormous entertaining areas.

Ray White, Mill Park, agent Kon Kouvas said the home was set to eclipse the $1.36 million record price set for a smaller home in the street at its in-room auction on November 9

15 The Grange, Caroline Springs

LED lights on the ceiling create an idyllic wonderland to watch the latest big budget blockbuster on DVD.

The sunken theatre room has surround sound and a projector screen.

It’s part of a classy four-bedroom home with a state-of-the-art kitchen, plenty of technological features, a second kitchen outdoors and in-ground pool with gas and solar heating and spa jets.

Raine & Horne, Caroline Springs, is selling this property for $1.1 million.