The Timelapse Theatre - Planning n' Build Log - Page 38

Some progress pics for your enjoyment.

Oh, no. I knew that going into it. I've had this hole in my wall for months because I removed an old built-in room heater. The main reason why I didn't build the shelf immediately is that I was trying to come up with an attractive solution to this problem.

edit:
here's the old ugly space heater.

Edited by jdanforth - 1/4/13 at 12:36pm

Thanks! You too!

And that's that! I'm finally finished with the shelf project. I'm very pleased with the result despite having to make some design changes in the middle. That's pretty much my whole theatre though...

OK, here goes:

Install some molding 'round the outside

Also some quarter-round to cover the transition from drywall to wood

A couple coats of paint... this is the same color as the soffits.

Cut and paint the shelves (they're 12-1/2" x 5.5")

Mounted the lights and we're done! Those lights are old LED bookshelf lights from Ikea. I used my plate shear to cut them down a bit and then drilled a new mounting hole to fit the shelf.


I think the shadow lines came out quite nicely. These photos are with *every* light in the theatre on. That only happens when I'm working.

That's probably a good idea...

Thanks everyone. My wife would love to paint the door, I bet. I'll see if we can't knock that out this week... maybe next.

Yeah, well, I'm not so much into waffles anymore since our family went gluten-freen.

Thanks! You'll have to come up for a demo!

Thanks for the compliment.

Adding Linacoustic to the door is an interesting idea and I have plenty left but I think that doing that might make the little space at the bottom of the stairs feel cramped. I REALLY need to work on acoustic treatments... I need bass absorption big-time and there's a pesky reflection in the room on the sidewalls.

Haha, I posted this photo on Facebook and one of my friends said "Your Wall-E is backwards!" He works for Pixar so I guess he should know!

And while I'm at it I thought I might as well share a couple other things on the shelf. That white thingie is one of my favorite sculptures. It's a 3D printed hecatonicosachoron (AKA 120-cell). It's a 3-dimensional shadow, if you will, of a 4-dimensional dodecahedron. You can show the shadow of a square on a piece of paper (2D) by shining light onto a cube (3D) resting on its surface. This is the same thing except that the shadow of a 4D object is 3D.



It was printed on a Dimension 3D printer.

On the top shelf is one of the daguerreotypes I've made over the years. I love the kitsch of this hula girl nightlight that I used to have so I made her portrait. I made the case too... one of my early cases but still came out rather well. You can see more of the daguerreotypes I've made here.

Oh, and that's Remy XO cognac in the bottle.

And I make these little boxes too. This is one but I'm not sure it's the same on my shelf. I sell them on Etsy when I get ambitious. This one's made from purpleheart and sugar maple.

I just charge it elsewhere although the mount was designed to reveal the charging port. The headphone port is exposed via a cutout. In theory you could mount a charger in a recessed outlet behind the mount and run a slimline cable to it but I never bothered. I never intended the mount to be a home for the iPad... more like a rest stop. I have them in my kitchen and theatre and I find it really handy to have a location where the iPad always goes when you're done with it. It's easier than having to look on all the couches, chairs, under the ottoman, etc. for it.

The mounts have VESA mounting points on them so you can put them on an articulating mount if you want but they also have simple keyhole style mounts.

I manufactured one run of these and learned a good lesson about myself: I suck at marketing a product!

I added some new photos to the first post to show the current state of the room. These photos aren't my best work but since I'm not paying myself I'm not going to sweat these too much! So, if you'll pardon the occasional lens flare, I submit these for your enjoyment.