Yes Dear, I'm down here working on your craft room!! - Page 20

WOW guys.. thanks for the efforts!!

I had spent hrs searching.. commercial carpet.. casino carpet.. hotel carpet etc etc etc.. with no luck either.

Hopefulfred.. it seams to me that Jason (Jasons Blog) used an image from the other gifs you also found. his image is the exact ratio as the ones in the automated gifs (all the way down to the little yellow coffee cup pixel in the upper left of the image), so I doubt he took the pic. During my investigation I found the company that got the contract for Nokia flooring.. (something? Prince) but none of their products looked similar to the image. So I think Jason was a wild goose chase.
I sent emails to both carpet outlets last Thurs.. one responded they had no idea where the image came from, no word from the other.. last week was the first time I had ever played with the google image search.. its a neat tool to have in the bag.

DavidK.. you may be onto something, I had originally considered a black border with an insert due to some of the issues installers have lining up patterened wool carpets. Using a rug would probably give the same look and allow changes as desired.. definatley something to think about.

This is one of those situations where I wish I had never ran across that image becasue now nothing else seems like the right fit..


ummm......wellll....uhhhh....umm..

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Quote from my overzealous post on July 25th.

Here's what I've accomplished in the last month...... I can actually see a light at the end of the tunnel for the room construction, the pieces are coming together a little quicker now..


Finished ~ 400 more ft of misc stuff... this completes ~ 95% of what Ill need to finish (thank goodness, getting tired of sanding / finishing...)


Trimmed out the fabric panels for one side wall. I ended up using the same 1 1/2" half round that I used for the soffit face rather than a panel profile.
Note the height of the fabric panels was dictated by the width of the 701 roll.. I've wasted very little fabric for my 15 panels so far.


In this shot you can see the top and bottom supports for the sconce.


Panel in place


Staple and cut fabric for wiring.


The sconces I chose were originally wired for a wall plug and foot switch.
So I cut off the plug, pulled out the wiring, punched a hole in the rear plate and stuck in a grommet for direct wiring



First sconce hung.


I also finished off where the wall meets the soffit around the room.

I've been playing around with a faux paint on paintable wall paper trying to make it look like a copper/bronze with a pantina..gettin close to something usable, but worse case Ill finish the bottom of the soffit with black 701.

Heres one wall, (short the Bling) Like everyone else.. the pictures I take dont do the room justice..(I suck at taking pics and Im tired of messing around with camera settings.. ill wait until the room is done and then get someone who knows what their doing to come in and take decent pics)





and then this crash landed in my garage on Monday..


If I'm watching movies by christmas it'll be on lawn chairs without carpet in the room

Im really hung up on the direction to go with the carpet and chairs... red carpet/black chairs.... black carpet/ red chairs.. black on black...

I've gotten a few sample of different reds for the carpet.. but they all seem to clash with the reddish color on the walls..

@ thegeek.. Ive requested a few samples from stanton ... well see what they look like when they arrive.. thanks for the tip.

Ill post a few more pics of the whole room after the remaining panels are trimmed and the rest of the sconces hung on the other wall..

Brad

Thank you gentlemen, the feedback is greatly appreciated (and Motivating)

I feel Im getting really close now... I may not be 100% by my deadline of this Christmas, but I'm happy where I am now that the pieces are coming together quicker.

For the carpet it looks like Ill be going with.....Drum roll Please....
black border and red inset... Actually it will probably be a Maroonish color.. ill should be able to find something that gets close to the wall color without clashing with the black border between the inset and the wall.

I agree with everyone that red chairs may look a little Gaudy.. but sometimes you gotta run an idea up the flag pole, and this is a great place for honest feedback. Now Ill just need to decide on a chair style..

EJ.. thanks for re posting the link to your theater, I hadn't noticed at the time how you did the carpet in your room. (too busy looking at your bar)

Sometimes its hard to visualize and It helps tremendously to see an actual picture of a concept, after re examining your theater the deal was sealed.

I was originally looking at patterned wool carpets and a friend of mine (owns a carpet store) also recommend the border also to avoid the issues that sometimes arise when trying to seam the patterned carpets. I should be able to run 12' width and leave ~ 2'9" for a border on each side.



Oh Yea!! and it makes me wanna jump out my basement window when I think about how fast those 2 have built that theater.. you can tell its not their first rodeo..


The stained glass looked good against the blonde unfinished wood, however once everything went red the colors didn't blend well..


Back at ya Damelon.. Your room is fantastic and the Blazing fast timeline you guys have been on highlights the accomplishment even more.


Moggie.. Thanks Man!!.. Although I wasn't able to keep pace with your build, You've pretty much stuck with me for the entire endeavour.. and through several change of seasons

Your theater has definitely raised the bar, and provided a pinnacle for my aspirations.

I must admit... the speed of my progress increased exponentially once I hung the sign......



"What would Moggie Do"


The product you see in that photo is sold by Quest Acoustical Interiors under the name of "Perfsorber". Its a hybrid absorber/diffuser that was recommended by Dennis Erskine.

Regarding the pattern, it is my "belief" that the science for the design of the persorber has it's "roots" in the work of D' Antiono and Cox. Their concept used a maximum length sequence to generate a binary pattern. The resulting Binary sequence with 1's representing reflective regions and 0's representing absorptive regions, will act as a diffuser by varying the phase of the reflected wave. This concept was realized in a product called a "Bad Panel" (binary amplitude diffuser) patented by RPG. The Bad panel was simply a hard faced reflective panel (think 1/8 inch masonite) with holes puched in the appropriate pattern, that allows a portion of the sound wave to reach the absorptive material behind the panel thus providing broadband diffusion. Kinects also sells a similar product called a "Tad Panel"

An interesting DIY application of this concept can be seen on the ceiling in this build.. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...7#post21019737

I believe the perfsorber product would be considered a ternary diffuser. it also uses a random binary sequence, however the construction employs the technique of using two absorptive sheets rotated 180 degress out of phase with ~ 15 mil membrane between them. The resulting effect creates a pattern that can be represented by -1,0,+1, as compared to the binary design with is represented by 0,1.

the below graph shows the test data from Quest



Compared with test data from RPG's "Bad" panel


Notice the significant improved scattering with the quest product.

Another benefit of the flat panel diffusers is that they dont require as much realestate (depth) as other types such as the quad type diffusers.

Just kind of a brief overview, If you do a search for pat number 7314114 you'll find more information for a design "SIMILAR" to the perfsorber, or search for binary amplitude diffusion for a more indepth explanation of the basic concept.


Thanks again guys

Brad

~4hr Dr from Chicago, your welcome anytime.


I've only had a temp hookup back when the IB was initially installed, all I can say about that was it was loud and sounded bad in a drywall shell.. Hopefully I can install and test the real equip within the next month.


LOL.. Wisdom beyond your years.

Hopefully end of Nov or sooner for carpet.. still need to do the capitols, fluting, bases etc...ref: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...6#post19513016



Kinda why I discounted a Grey carpet, wanted to keep the color palette to a min. Im going to search for a "solid" red/maroon that's close to the wood, maybe towards the darker side.

VIDEO.. Slow your roll.. I kinda thought that picking up tools and sweeping the floor before my next update would be an improvement