Okay...You Twisted My Arm...I'm building A Theater :0) - Page 3

No problemo...Here is one more pic of that one wall finished...Now I have to decide what I am going to do about the doors...Don't know if I want fabric or just paint black...(undecided)... I'm done for today...Gonna watch a good flick with the family...

Not quite finished yet, but I did get the left wall done today... Sorry about the fuzzy pics...(not good with a camera)...

Yes, it's called Charleston Opel and it's made by "Kane carpets"... I got it at this place here (link below)...(they have 2 big rolls left)...It is normally 52 bucks a Square yard, (woven) but it is on sale right now for 18.00 SY. It is woven carpet and very thick...I love it. They were fortunately here in the Atlanta area, but I had them ship it to me anyways. The carpet looks alot better in person...(more black).

http://carpetdepotdecatur.com/wovencarpet.html

The whole back wall is not done yet, also have to put fabric on the rear soffet, and then I need to do some wood colored crown moulding, and then plugs and outlet dressing. The chairs are awesome...very comfy...

Thank you. And thanks for the pics...You have a beautiful theater too!...

I know it's labor day, but I just "had" to do something in the theater today....Sooooooo, I went ahead and covered the rear soffet with Black GOM and came up with a design I can live with for the projector area. I have included a picture of my original design, (in case someone wants to use it). It was a closed look with just the lens poking out...> (I couldn't use it because my projector vents out the front and even with cool air blowing in from the back, it was heating up too much). so I had to scrap the inclosed look, and open up the front. See the pics...







Here is my original idea, (which didn't work because of overheating issues)


Here is what I wound up with...(projector set back inside rectangle). Still looks good, and it can breathe now...


Also managed to get 2 of the rear wall panels put in...But I'm done for the day....

Thanks guys...I spent all day today finishing the rear wall and the side wall by the bathroom...here are some pics....still not finished yet, but I accomplished quite a bit...got my dimmer wall switches put in...(I will eventually put in something a little more fancy and black)... I simply used the switch box extenders to bring the box out to meet the fabric level.

Really no secret...Quite easy really. Just use the 2x2's and make panels, then cover them in fabric and pop them in. As far as the hole for the lens, just cut a hole slightly smaller than then lens, and when you push in the fabric frame, you carefully pop the hole over the lens as you push the frame panel in. You just need to make sure all the panels are built in place and fit tight and also allow some extra slop (1/8") for the fabric if it is thick like mine.... On the rectangular opening I used two 2x2's on the bottom, two on the sides, and one on the top. this way it was very sturdy and easy to cover with fabric. You make it just slightly larger than the projector.

Okay...just finished the final (and hardest) wall...Had to make an access panel for getting to the back of my equipment. I decided to use plywood for this last wall. I cut out the outline of the wall and then cut out another rectangular hole to crawl through...This panel also had to double as a speaker grill for my rear seating side channel speaker...Here are the pics...All that is left now is my crown moulding and heating registers...




Here is the finished corner with access panel...


Here are my cool new dimmer switches...Black with dark grey...They look really cool. The blue is alot darker than it looks in these pics...I had to use the flash, cause the pics have been too blurry without it.

It's much easier to wrap and staple fabric over some kind of panel then to try to staple to drywall...plus this way it hides all the staples in the black GOM on the soffet...also, as you said, it makes it sturdy for the access panel...;0)

I wanted to also point out that every single one of these panels are "pressed in" there are no screws or anything holding them in...;0)

It would have been much harder to make a durable access panel using the 2x2's...Plus, I didn't have the room to squeeze the rear seating in there... It is really tight. That is why I went with the love seat configuration in the rear, because it shortens the length without the extra arm rests...the love seat loses 10 inches from a regular 4 seat configuration...All in all, that is the only panel that is "not" 2x2. But it came out great, I'm very pleased with it.

My rear seating side surrounds came in today, so I installed them...Here's a shot with the access panel off...Damn, these speakers sound good!...

Okay...my latest update. I built a lower masking panel for this huge 16:9 screen. This way I won't have to see upper and lower bars when watching 235:1 movies...Like my fabric wall panels, it simply plugs in easily, and can be popped out in a second to watch 16:9 in all it's glory...

That's the beauty of the PT-AE3000U Panny...It has lens memory...You just press a button and it will save all your screen mode settings (upper, lower, 16:9, 235:1 etc)...When I switch from 16:9 to 235:1, I just go to the lens menu and press a button and it's done...It's awesome... You can download the manual from Panasonic.com and learn all about it, also you can go to the official Panasonic PT-AE3000U thread and there is quite a bit of discussion on it...

With the scope masking in 235:1 mode it is 142" diagnal and without the masking in full 16:9 ratio it is 150". I am shooting the image from 20 ft. Here are some more pics...