Desert Sunset Theater Build - Page 20

One of my greatest pleasures is that I have no clue when the doorbell rings...so very rarely is it anyone at all I care to talk to. If I know someone is coming over I greet them, otherwise...I am not buying it, and no I won't convert. The idea of making your doorbell more useful to you while in your theatre room is a cool challenge. Not for me though. hahaha My wife calls me a Nerd Hermit!

Fantastic work on your theatre!!! It has come so far, very impressive!!!

I didn't even put a doorbell in my house. Best thing was when I inadvertently disconnected the phone. We didn't get any calls for three days until I figured it out.

I also have family, friends and neighbours randomly stop by every now and again. I may hook up a camera at the door as well so if the doorbell goes I can see who it is without having to leave the theater.

Just my $0.02 but I really like the look of black carpet on the stage- it just sets the whole front wall off and says "hey look at me." You have a really nice carpet choice there and I think it will make a very cool contrast.

The carpet sample looks green on my screen but I am not sure that it is accurate. If I am seeing it correctly then I vote for stage and all to be the same. I have seen several builds on here where they use black for the stage and I personally don't care for it. The only time I think it looks ok is when the main carpet area is dark as well (shades of gray and black). I think you will be just fine doing it all the same.

+1

Damelon has a small pattern on his carpet and I don't think it is distracting on the stage portion.

A buddy I work with used to install carpet and he says anyone worth anything can make the patterns work around the curve. He says there all kinds of things that they can do like making little cuts and inserting pieces to extend or sometimes cutting out little sections and piecing it together to make it smaller. If they match up the floor and the top of the stage/steps, they can make the curve work.

That riser looks huge! How big is that thing?

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's going to have a huge riser. It's looking good.

I have a quick question about your Fosi light source. How much heat does it generate?

I can't remember if you said or not but did you swap the light source for the FOSI or did it come with the LED already?

From my experience about patterns and colors that are on the darker side, you don't notice it once the lights turn off.

The only light coming from the room will be the reflection off the screen. If it's a dark scene, there's little that will reflect from project->screen->floor->eye to notice the pattern and if it's a bright scene the brightness of the screen will overpower carper. Also the second row will probably not be able to see the stage while sitting down.

The only exception to this rule is if a surface is a glossy surface. Back when I was designing my theater I traveled to Cedia & CES every year and saw countless demo rooms. Many of those rooms are blacked out so you get sucked into the experience and don't pay attention to things around the room. Not all do this and I noticed a reoccurring annoyance. As an example, Mcintosh had a coffered ceiling with a glossy trim and tile panels. I can't tell you how annoying it was to be listening to some incredible $180k speakers and then suddenly there's a flash of brighter light on the screen and what stood out to me more was a grid pattern of reflection on the ceiling, it ruined the overall experience for me and once you get bit with that bug you want to avoid it. -- So what I'm saying is don't worry about pattern on dark carpet, that is far down on the list of things that might undesirably catch you eye during a moving.

Hey there stockmonkey,

I got a question. . . over in James's build u were talking about ur star ceiling being on a occupancy sensor? did that interfere with it being on ur GE system for light control? my room is going to be on a wave network controlled by a wave wall scene controllers and irule like the rest of the house. would i be able to put it on an occupancy sensor and also control it then when needed? U guys have me thinning about a star ceiling now. I just don't know if I can pull it off. I have those 2 distinct areas in my ceiling being that the beam splits the room. this might be a nice way to dress up the ceiling.

Thanks,
jim

As you know I have the same issue as you with the 2 distinct areas of ceiling. At first I was just going to to do the ceiling in the first section. If you have a look at Moggie's thread he has 2 distinct areas as well and it was looking through his thread that convinced me to do it in both sections. Depending on who you go with you can get a drilling template that will make the two sections look like one continuous section of sky.

THanks for the info Stock and James. I din't know that about the motor and the illuminator. I'll take a closer look at Moggie's thread. I never paid attention to the details re: his ceiling cause a star ceiling wasn't in my head.

Thanks again,
jim

Sitting on that riser is going to be awesome during movies as its gunna shake rattle and roll with your IB subs.

I call middle back seat