We have a pocket door (double width of a normal door) on ours, so the room can be open or closed off depending on what it's being used for. Open most of the time, but closed off if someone wants to watch football while the other one wants to have a few of the gals over for drinks.

Obviously, a door, pocket or otherwise, costs more than not having a door but if you're in the planning stages, I wouldn't think the cost would be prohibitive.

Not sure what the problem is the door does not open into the LR and a sliding door will make the actual doorway much narrower why not a fench door

You could definitely have a pocket door instead. However even with the french doors, they'll most likely remain closed when in the theatre room. There's not much space the doors are taking up unless they were to remain open at all times.

Is this home already built? In order to have a pocket door the frame would have to be redone

The corners on either side of the open prevent an internal sliding door. Double hinged door are always problematic from an acoustical point of view, as well as functional.

I'm curious why you would have two almost equal sized rooms, each with a TV, and one called Living and one called Theater. Seems odd to me...

Forgot to mention this is builders design in australia. Just realised door is not included.

Why two doors?

Be aware of potential glare on the screen from the window behind the viewers.

I have built a couple of home theaters now and for the life of me I can't figure out why you want two doors into a theater room. Doors and HVAC are the hardest areas for theater sound leaking into the rest of the house. With double doors you might as well forget it. It is just a bad idea.

Do yourself a favor and cut it down to one door no more than 32" wide.

Now a days 2 living room is standard in australia but again you have a choice.

Well, I live in Aus, and we have a somewhat similar arrangement - an open living/dining/kitchen area (with a small TV I can watch while getting dinner) and a separate TR/library - so I have to agree with the OP that it's common here.

As I said, our house was designed with a pocket door for the TR - it's 140 cm/55 inches wide, and it does a decent job of blocking out sound while hubby is watching his football or his documentaries about the Eastern Front. Boom boom.

Of course, if the house framing is already done, that's not a realistic option.

I don’t see how the door to the theater room affects how big the living room does/doesn’t feel, given that it’s a set of inswing doors. I do think the theater room itself makes the living room feel small, and I’m not quite sure why you’d need or want two same-sized TVs back to back in separate, same-sized rooms. At a minimum I’d ditch the tv in the living room, and I might reorient things so the double doors are between the living room and theater room, giving you the option of two separate living spaces with the doors closed or one large living space with the doors open.