Pimp My Garage - Page 10

Thanks Tony - what, you're not subscribed??

I'm looking forward to actually getting the audio end dialed in too - haven't done anything in that regard, since no carpet in yet - BFD just sitting there in the chain flat.

Pics! Here's a few pics of the soffit as of night before last - still a couple places where I need to trim and tuck and such, but its getting close. The uneven shadows in the rope light are because there is still some fabric sticking up on the inside of the tray that I either need to trim off with a utility knife or glue down or both. I wonder if a glue stick would work, or maybe just a bead of white glue - don't want to do the contact cement back there, would be hard to work inside the tray.

I added the eyeball trims on the screen lights last night, but didn't shoot a picture of it.

Thanks guys!

Yeah very satisfying stage of the build, seeing large areas getting finished material up - also painful if/when you screw something up and have to figure a way to fix it!

Thanks Ben, the center of the fixtures is 8 3/4" away from the face of the false wall studs. So once the panels are around the screen, it will maybe an inch less then less. As far as guidelines for positioning, not sure, I just eyeballed it best I could, taking into account the curved face of the bulkhead. Pretty sure there are general guidelines for light spread, etc., but not sure what they are. For the soffit lighting (sides, back), I remember reading and applying some rule I saw, same with the tray depth.

Last night I had precut some of the vinyl I'm putting on the column sides, and couldn't wait to try it out - so I had at it on my lunch break, managed to get the sides of two of the columns done - the stapling for these sure goes quicker than the soffit, much easier to handle:

I stapled on the first side before I started taking any pics of the process:







From the start - cut a panel a bit oversize to allow for wrapping/stapling:



stapled the inside edge:



flipped it over and started pulling the material tight and stapling:



done stapling all around:



trimmed off excess, and used xacto knife to cut holes where the mounting screws on the sides go:



right side column done and test fitted:



left side column done and test fitted:



Not screwed down yet, because (a) they will need to be out of the way when the carpet is installed, and (b) I need to cut an inch or so off the bottoms to clear the carpet / pad. Shouldn't be too bad, add a piece of bracing a little higher, cut away the vinyl with xacto knife, and then saw off the bottom. Trim will be covering top and bottom.

Will also need to sand the face panels some, as I didn't leave quite enough clearance for the vinyl and speaker fabric in the nooks.

Fun!

Thanks for the feedback guys.


Thanks rader, steal away, I'd be honored, it's interesting too seeing how people adapt other people's designs - mine is after all a sort of combination of other designs I've seen (combo of box framed fabric covered, and Ronnie Jackson's sloped).

Thanks Steve!

Finished up the rest of the column sides on Saturday - here are the front and side columns, with the face frames in place (spent a couple hours today belt sanding the edges to make them fit after the vinyl was added):



rear corner columns:



all of the right side columns:



Saturday afternoon, I got the black speaker fabric up over the OC 703 behind the screen wall - the speaker cloth is 102" width, so no seam, covers top to bottom (well except the part on the lower left where I accidentally ripped the fabric, and had to put a patch over it - oh well, its behind the screen wall, so I didn't care enough to do a pretty fix). Looks a bit smudgy, I need to go over it with a lint roller I picked up at Staples:



The LCRs sit on Rubbermaid adjustable shelving - the shelf support rails are attached to vertical 2x4s laid flat, with channels routed in them - allowed me to attach the fabric to the 2x4s after I cut out to expose the rails - edges of the fabric are glued to the inside of the channel with contact cement.

Closeup of channels that the adjustable shelf supports sit in (may need to touch the gold screw heads with a sharpie):



And I received the recessed fixture socket extensions I ordered, so I put the eyeball trims in:



Next step will be to paint the column face frames black, then cover them with speaker fabric. Oh, and take care of some cleanup on the soffit fabric, trim etc.

Thanks guys!


The ball guides seem to be working fine - I cranked the system to reference to see if anything rattled, and didn't notice anything (yet). They require a flat surface though, in a few places I had to shim a bit because the walls were a little off - without a flat wall, the balls will want to pop out of the sockets. I've almost exhausted 17 packs of 12, so 204 pairs. I got them from partsexpress - $3 each pack, so about $50. Will need a few more packs for the panels on the screen wall.

I'm looking forward to the screen too! And a projector!!


Lol, well, can always paint? Painting a ceiling isn't much fun though, especially if you're already past the mess making stage.

column face fabric (Rose Brand speaker cloth) is up (well, temporarily anyway)!

front:



side:



rear:



the gang's all here:



closeup to show the joints between face panels (flash washes the color out, but you can at least see the joint):



I still need to add short panels at the bottom (most of which will be covered with baseboard).

Every time I get something accomplished and sit back and say to myself "hey that looks pretty good", I look forward to posting pics and sharing it with you guys (hey where did the gals go, didn't there used to be at least a couple? McCall comes to mind, she of the stretch velvet, haven't seen her post in a while, but maybe she's too busy watching movies). It really takes another freak to appreciate the work of a freak I guess (i.e. the love for building an HT is a niche that not everyone appreciates to the same degree that we do).

So thanks again for following and chiming in - whether its applause or jeers ("WTF did you do that for??").