Tools · Seating Planner
How many seats fit your theater?
Set your room and the kind of chairs you have in mind, and see a real layout build — seats per row, number of rows, riser height, viewing distance, and the screen size to match. Free, instant, no sign-up.
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A planning guide, not a construction drawing — real layouts depend on door swings, walkways, HVAC, and code. Firebird designs the room around your seating — sightlines, risers, screen, and speaker geometry — and coordinates with your seating vendor; we don't supply the chairs.
How to plan a seating layout
A great theater layout starts with three numbers: how wide each chair is, how much depth each row needs to recline, and how far the front row sits from the screen. From there it's geometry — fit the rows into the room, raise each one on a riser so every seat sees the screen, and size the picture so even the back row is immersive.
Leave about a foot on each side wall for surround speakers, keep the back row off the rear wall so the surrounds can breathe, and step each additional row up 8–12 inches. When the layout looks right, we lock it to your exact sightlines and build the room around it.
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Tell us the room — we'll design the perfect seat in the house.
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