Finally Finished!

Originally Posted by morgbug

Looks nifty. Are you ventilating the side room in any way?

Originally Posted by mikieson

very nice and clean..I like the simple clean look a lot. ALSO Ive never seen a "half rack" like you have..kind of neat looking..Great room and im sure you'll get many hours of enjoyment..

Originally Posted by tbraden32

What kind of rack and shelving? Where did you purchase it from, $200 sounds like a really good deal.

Originally Posted by R Harkness

Really, really nice job, Childerj. Really clean and it looks like a very impressive screen wall. I'm a fan of dark screen walls so you just concentrate on the image.

I see you went with a dark color for most of the ceiling/walls, presumably to also cut reflections so your on-screen image doesn't wash out. Given you went to those lengths, is there some reason you stayed with such a light carpet color? I ask because a carpet that light, especially right under the screen, can defeat some of the work you've done in killing reflections on the other surfaces (since usually the floor and ceiling tend to have the greatest wash out effect on a screen).

Have you considered carpeting only the stage area right beneath the screen in black? It would likely make some impact on your image quality, and fully surrounding the image with black makes the image have more impact, visually. It would also help make the black center speaker and subwoofer "disappear" better, which is always nicer and more tidy than the "speaker sitting on a floor in front of the screen" look. So for very little cost and physical outlay, you could (likely) increase your image quality, give the image more impact (fully surrounding it with black), and make for a neater, more intentional looking and discrete design.

FWIW. (BTW, you can check out links below my name if you want to see an example of what I mean. I did my floor in black velvet about 2 feet out from the screen. This helps contrast and really, really helped "place" the black speakers sitting on that "stage" portion for a much neater look. Before I put in that black portion of the floor I had the speakers-stashed around the screen look. But now it looks more coherent and deliberate...like a finished theater).

Anyway, great stuff.

Originally Posted by R Harkness

I'm not saying you need to use black velvet at all. Just a dark black carpet.
Not only would it help with reflections, but in my opinion (hey, that's what we are here for!) aesthetically it would look better. Precisely because you've made a little raised stage area, you can treat it with a different carpet and it would work, essentially making it look more cohesive and fully designed, whereas right now you have the light-carpet-with-black-speakers-plunked-in-front thing going.

I myself went back and forth on this issue, starting with all the floor the same color. But inevitably, to my mind, you get the "I've bought a bunch of home theater components and shoved them together" vibe, when you see speakers around the screen. You've already been very neat and discrete they way you built in your L/Rs so cleanly, so it's a bit of a shame to lose some of that tidiness by having your center and subwoofer sitting so visibly under the screen. If that stage area were black, they would blend into the stage area and it would all look more coherent, IMO. You can find examples of people who have done this in various home theater build threads on this site.

Here's an example of the darkened stage area from BigMouth in DC's theater - a room everyone on this forum seems to love:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...3#post10450143

I only say this because of the way you've gone so far toward that goal, and because the fact you built a separate stage area gives you that easy opportunity to treat the end of the room like a fully coherent whole.

I'll leave it at that since it's just my opinion and of course we all have our own sense of design. Either way, your work already looks really excellent and you should be proud!

Originally Posted by ADDUpstate

Or, he could just enclose the center and sub with a lower-only fabric wall, from the screen to the floor. Basically box it in. If I were doing it, I would have brought the screen out flush with the L/R speaker enclosures, and hidden the center and sub behind it.

Looks good nonetheless.

Originally Posted by filetandrelease

Your space is identical to what I have to work with - Im drawing my plans now, and have the exact size room - 15x25x8. Mine will also back up to a garage area, its a lower utility garage thats 15x60, and Im gonna take half for the HT space. It will be underground ----

What is your celling height, and screen size. Love to see more pix when you have time.

Originally Posted by hehateme


This rack looks good to me.
Besides the shelves did you have to buy cab cage nuts and cab screws?

Did the package arrive at your home in good condition? I was reading the reviews of these products at Amazon.com and many people complained that it arrived badly damaged.

Thanks