Pimp My Garage - Page 12

Thanks guys, look forward to your variations on the theme if you do decide to go in that direction! As I mentioned a while back, my columns are after all a variation on other designs I've seen here (such as Ronnie Jackson's).

Lol, wow, definitely something I hadn't considered. In you case are there lights directly above the THT? Closest with mine are a few feet away, wonder if that matters. Also, I'll be trying laying it flat firing into the side wall, and compare the response.

I thought you moved away from the THTs though - or running them with your new subs as well?

Catching up on some of my recent piddling but forward (mostly) progress - generally trying to get ready for carpet install - was hoping for this week, but the first day that they can come when I'm at the house will be next week.

The inside of the entry door frame was a sloppily done drywall/mud job that wasn't even and was cracking already, so I decided to fill the jamb with fabric covered panels (speaker cloth over 1/2" plywood - wood on the left side is the edge of a wall frame panel):





Access panel for soffit lighting junction box:



access panel for concealed outlet connected to rope light:



Gave my screen wall a C section - before:



after:



(got the idea from Big Jefe in another thread, and it made a lot of sense to me to lighten up the false wall framing, and make it easier to drag the THT around to test out sub locations, etc.)

finished making the last of the wall panels - the bottom row - these will be permanently affixed to the furring once they are covered with fabric - because of the odd shapes, and with the carpet not in yet, I had been putting them off - but I decided to just build them to 1" off the concrete floor, which will be more than enough room for the carpet installers to run the carpet under (and I can remove the panels if they want), and small enough to cover with baseboard.



close up of the same panel - three others basically like this, the ones that butt up against the stage and riser:

Here are some fabric samples I'm pondering:

top to bottom: GoM Broadcast Chinchilla; Dazian Janus Fieldstone; Dazian Janus Bronze:



top to bottom: GoM FR 701 Camel; GoM Framework Stone:



top to bottom: GoM Broadcast Mink; GoM FR 701 Earth:



GoM FR 701 Moleskin; GoM FR 701 Light Moss:



all together, with flash (looks like I need to paint the bracing behind the frames black after all):



without flash, colors look different under different lighting of course:



Whaddya think?

Thanks! and thanks for bumping me on the head to post some newer pics

Thanks RT - those are actually my top three choices as well, I just didn't want to bias the jury. I'm leaning towards one color, since I didn't design the panels with a chair rail in mind, I think one color might look better. Plus I already have the column colors to break up the monotony, so splitting the wall into two colors might be too busy for my taste (as I mentioned before, I'm somewhat a minimalist in terms of design).


Thanks Randy - more votes for those two.


As mentioned above, I'm actually thinking of one color for the walls, so don't have to be concerned about contrast in that sense; but I am looking for some amount of contrast between the wall color and the other elements - soffit, carpet, columns, doors. I think I'll have to do some quick renders to see what color combo looks best and help me make a decision. Would love to get the fabric ordered in the next few days so I can make good use of an extended Easter weekend.

Carpet scheduled for next Friday 4/22!


Thanks pt!

I took a shot at doing a lame render to help decide, but I'm not really very good at it I'm afraid. I used SketchUp, imported a picture of a column, then imported photos of the fabric samples as materials and painted the walls with the materials (carpet sample too). The problem is I had a hard time getting pictures of the samples that accurately portray the colors. I tried shooting the materials both with and without flash, but still had to adjust colors a bit manually to get it to look close by eye - and some still not right. Earth looks too green; Light Moss looks lighter than it should.

Oh well, better than nothing.

This is an attempt at approximating what they would look like in a fairly well lit room; most of the time of course, it would be no light or very low light.

Chinchilla



Camel



Earth



Mink



Moleskin



Light Moss

Thanks Greg, I like them a lot too - still trying to balance between what loosk best on its own, what has the best color vs. texture, what complements the column and carpet colors, what will be best when the lights are on vs. off, etc. Hard to choose.


Me too!!


Haha, sorry Tony, didn't mean to pick on you, and I don't think I had actually mentioned it until this page.


Oh he's always welcome, I'm sure he's following this thread...


I am off by a generation of having any clue...

edited the swell renders to change the background to black instead of mint green, makes it easier for me at least to focus on the actual colors - and much of the rest of the room is / will be black anyway (soffit, doors, screen wall, trim).

Well I didn't actually set a very good precedent with all this talk of mint green (I was going to say pistachio but thought better of it), chinchilla, camel, etc.

Thanks for the input fotto and jesto!

Thanks Drew. The panels are two layers of 1/2" plywood - just ordinary cheap plywood, nothing fancy - corners are assembled using lap joints, per the method outlined in the GPowers fabric frames thread. They are mounted to furring strips on the walls which are also 1/2" plywood, so the total depth ends up being 1.5". I think JeffC used the Kreg jig to make all his panels, and they came out great, might want to check his thread for some pics.