The Cinemar Home Theater Construction Thread - Page 16

Yeah. I'd still like to hear what Ted thinks on that one.

What's the technique for mounting outlets that need to go through the hat channel, clips DD?

A bit more progress today.

These corner clamps were a great investment while building the backer boxes.



Finished putting the acoustic sealant all the around the theater.



Threw up a couple bags of R19 into the ceiling after putting 181 Metal Foil tape around the joints on the 6" ducts within the joists. I can tell I'm getting better air pressure in the rooms above because some of the vents with manual dampers actually rattled until I adjusted them slightly.



Wired for the network thermostat in the Theater Foyer and ran 18/2 into the theater for the thermostat sensor. Since the Prolphix thermostat makes a clicking noise when it turns on/off and there is no way to turn off the display, I opted to keep it outside the theater and will put a small thermostat sensor within the theater.



I caulked all the backer boxes with acoustic sealant and built one last backer box. I'll assemble it completely the next time we break out the Green Glue. Just need to add a lip to all the backer boxes so we'll have something to screw into.

Thanks Chase. Hopefully sticking to the book gets the results I'm hoping for.

Been playing around with the front wall a bit. I think I'm leaning towards angling the front side cabinets at 45 degrees instead of straight.

Here are some renders.

I was planning on solid wood. Just seems to look cleaner. Although if the top step gets too much wider than a typical step, I may need to rethink it. Carpet may be better from a reflective stand point. But I may have to use a flat paint.

I was possibly thinking about doing the carpet in the very front of the room in black so the front of the room is really dark. Just worried about people missing that black step against the black carpet.

Chase,

I have a led light strip planned for that step but I don't think I'd want it on during movies. I've found the only way to dim these led light strips is using IR. I was hoping I could dim it using Insteon but it didn't work. Has anyone found colored LED strips that could be connected to a lamp module and become dimmable as well as allow for color changes?

I'm just "borrowing" from what others have done and making it work within my room.

What color scheme are you going with Larry? I just got my samples from Fabricmate so I'm hoping to narrow it down. I'm playing with the reds...but I keep going back to the original tan color scheme.

Just playing around with the wall fabric and carpeting:

Thanks guys for the comments. I guess I like the tan walls/tan carpet for more of a multipurpose room. But for movies, the Claret Accent Red seems like a good choice.

I'll have to do some test renders, but once I throw in the black chairs, the tan carpet may not seem so stark.

I guess with dark carpet, I could consider carpeting the stairs instead of wood treads.

coreying,
I'm honored to be your first post. Welcome to this thread and the forum. You are correct. While doing a search for the wall fabric it lead me to another thread which lead me to Ruben's carpet. Fortunately for me, the mfg of that carpet has a great website with seamless carpet images which makes it a snap to drop into the 3D software.

I've noticed the fabric sample images on the GOM website, at least the Claret Accent Red, don't quite match what my eye see's after getting the samples. I'll try to get a more accurate color representation by snapping my own photos of the samples.

Another reason I like the tan is it helps to add lines to the room. The all black seems to lose some of the detail...but I guess that's what you want in a theater.

Larry,

I love the coffered look in the ceiling, but I think I'm just going to stick with my original plan so I can more easily do the painted star ceiling. I'm currently planning on putting black velvet up there so hopefully it will look like a black hole in the ceiling.

Thanks Mfusick.

Here are some more renders with the chairs in the room.

Thanks for the input guys. I'm gonna come back to colors and carpet in a bit.

But before that, I still need to nail down column placement in the room while balancing acoustics, looks, real-estate, speaker placement, etc.

Here are two options...the first was my original plan, but once I added the 45 angled fronts, I thought it would be good to revisit adding them in the back as well. That would allow for some nice corner bass trapping and a little more space to walk in the room. My concern with the 2nd plan is that it would push the side surrounds pretty far behind the optimal listening position. I've heard directly to the side is preferred rather than farther back. In the Potential Plan - the columns are not evenly spaced either like they are in the Original Plan.

Any thoughts?

Original Plan:



Potential Plan - eliminates two columns and adds 45 angled columns in rear.