Garage turned into a red velvet and gold-saturated entertainment center! Mikko and Annastina’s home movie theater is a dream come true

Acompletely ordinary-looking, two-door garage building gives no hint of what’s inside. A side door leads visitors into a movie theater that exudes old-fashioned charm. It is the creation of passionate film enthusiasts Mikko Keskitalo and Annastina Hämäläinen—a dream come true.

“I’ve been dreaming about having my own movie theater for over ten years, where you’d enter along a corridor. There wasn’t one here, so we had to build a partition wall to create it,” Mikko explains.

Mikko and Annastina bought their single-family home, built in 2012, two years ago. The two-car garage on the property initially served as a storage space for miscellaneous items. Once they had mapped out the layout for the movie room, they searched Pinterest for inspiration. Final material choices were made as work progressed.

“First, we found the sofa and armchairs on the Tori marketplace. We chose the other colors to match them. We wanted a warm and homey vibe,” Annastina says.

Except for the electrical work, Mikko and Annastina did all the renovation themselves. It took about four months.

“It always feels like you’ve gone somewhere else entirely, even though you’re still at home,” Annastina says.

This is what the space looked like before the renovation: