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8/26/11 at 2:25pm
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post #2 of 45
8/26/11 at 2:37pm
Why the smaller screen? At 13 feet to the first row, I would have guessed bigger.

Looks pretty good overall - good luck with it!
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post #3 of 45
8/26/11 at 7:58pm
Why the door to the rack 'room'? You've already got it out of the line of sight - enclosing it just makes it a pain to change discs, and makes it more complicated to cool...

Take a look at the Middle Atlantic "Residential Designer Rack" freestanding racks. They look really nice, and are on casters...

http://www.middleatlantic.com/enclosure/sa/rdr.htm

Sounds like you've done good homework and testing on the screen size. Throwing an image up and testing the size before purchasing the screen is absolutely the right answer!

Jeff
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post #4 of 45
8/31/11 at 9:49am
Looking good so far!
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post #5 of 45
8/31/11 at 1:16pm
Looks good.

What material are the posters made from?

Air must pass through easily if you're looking at broadband absorption.
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post #6 of 45
8/31/11 at 1:53pm
OK.

Then.........cool. Should look good when you're done.
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post #7 of 45
9/1/11 at 6:12pm
I bought a high quality Rustoleum Universal Paint & Primer In One Flat Black spray can (the can is black, white, and gold) from either Lowes or Home Depot (cannot remember which) and spraypainted one coat onto the smooth surface of the white wall plates. Looks perfect.

I plugged a spare cat5 cable into both ends of each cat 5 tombstone jack and spray painted those as well. I did the same for the HDMI tombstone jack that I had to spraypaint black.

I covered the vent/detection hole on my smoke detector and spreay painted it black, then sprayed some onto a brush and painted the white slats over the hole so the entire smoke detector is black. Looks amazing.

Eventually, I will take a picture of the items I painted and put them in my build thread.
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post #8 of 45
9/5/11 at 12:23am
Roshy,

Your poster material looks amazing. I just created 6 posters with Photoshop. Cropped a 3" black margin around each poster. Is that what you did?? The actual image I sent to Spoonflower was 30X42. That gives me 3" I can wrap around the 2" frame, giving me 1" in the back to staple. Can't wait to see your results. Are you planning a wood frame around the outside?? 2 of my panels will be hiding my rear surrounds.

BTW, your theater is looking great! What color is that on the walls??
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post #9 of 45
9/5/11 at 12:51pm
I really like the poster idea. That's excellent. Can you provide more information on where/how they were made?
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post #10 of 45
9/5/11 at 6:07pm
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I really like the poster idea. That's excellent. Can you provide more information on where/how they were made?

bikinipunk,

THIS THREAD is dedicated to these posters.
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post #11 of 45
9/8/11 at 8:47am
Roshy,

Can you do me a HUGE favor? Can you take a really close up picture of one of your Spoonflower pictures? Id like to see the perforations... Gonna be using two posters as surround speaker covers. Thanks.

I like how you painted all of your electrical covers. Looks nice.
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post #12 of 45
9/9/11 at 9:16am
Thanks Roshy. My posters came in last night. I feel confident they will work well to conceal my speakers nicely. A 3 hour Lowes trip?! I could easily spend $1000 an hour... Hope you had fun.
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post #13 of 45
9/13/11 at 10:19am
That is the exact rustoleum I used. I did not rough them up any with sandpaper and it still worked perfectly.

The Greenbelt...do you happen to live near Harrisburg, PA?
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post #14 of 45
9/14/11 at 8:47am
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I also painted the scones shown above with black paint and it looked pretty good.

Mmm scones - don't paint them, it will spoil the taste

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post #15 of 45
9/22/11 at 6:55am
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Finishing up the drywall on the home theater side to get ready for the contractor to come put the same surface that's on the rest of the walls in the theater. We've been working hard the past couple days because after they do that Friday, we have the carpet installers coming Monday and we have to be all ready and painted by then.

Curious about what your thoughts are on the very short step from the riser to the first step leading out of the room? I'm wondering if left the way it is it might be a trip hazard. One thought might be to build up the short step to even the rises between the 2 steps. I know they would be rather short rises, but they would at least be uniform. Just my 2 cents.
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post #16 of 45
9/22/11 at 12:40pm
totally agree with building up the short step or make a ram between the short step and the riser
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post #17 of 45
9/23/11 at 7:25pm
Any updates Roshy?
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post #18 of 45
9/26/11 at 11:50am
Looking good man. Like the texture finish.
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post #19 of 45
9/27/11 at 6:03am
i think you already have all the major stuffs done my HT is even extremely slower than yours. Just got my speakers wires etc on the weekend will continue with my build. Tell your canadian dad to help me hehehehe j/k
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post #20 of 45
9/30/11 at 11:25pm
can you give any more details regarding the panels you built. what size wood are they out of, dimensions, etc?

Also, where did you get the corner clamps you were using? never seen those before.

thanks
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post #21 of 45
10/1/11 at 12:36am
Made some serious progress in the last few weeks. Father/son projects are a great way to spend quality time. Hammer together a bird house, change a flat tire on the car...build a home theater. You are lucky to have so much help.

The theater is really starting to look good. What a transformation carpet and paint make. Where did you get the carpet and what color is it? Monotone dark grey or is it more black?
Typically not a huge textures wall fan (reminds me of cheap hotels) but WOW! Really like the effect with black.

Now that your father has returned to the best country on earth its time to apply what you learned grasshopper. We want to see this thing finished.
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post #22 of 45
10/1/11 at 6:27am
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Updates:

Sept 26:

Carpet was installed Monday. While we were waiting for them to come, and while they were carpetting, my dad and I started on some of the frames. Got 11 of the 24 planned frames nailed and glued together.

With the wood glue and clamps, I could make a frame about every 45 minutes, but once the carpet was installed, going to make frames constantly started to get in the way, so we stopped working on them to get the more major things done.

Here are before and after carpet:




Sept 27:
Second last day of work before my dad leaves for back home, so we were really trying to get a lot done. We got all the new light fixtures, receptacles and switches on, and started building the wooden frame for the screen wall.

Here you can see the new lighting we added, all on full blast. I bought those RF controlled switches by Lutron, so I can adjust them wirelessly. The two big pot lights make a horrible ringing noise now after changing to the new switch though, so I'll need to find some better bulbs.


Wired up the 7.2 surround sound plate, but theres too many cable to shove back into the wall, so it will be hanging for a while until I rig some type of patch panel for it. I also forgot to buy a plate from monoprice for the height speakers beside it, so I have to get that still. Sure was a pain putting all the cables into that wall plate.. they really should make it at least a 3 gang plate.


Frame at the front is started.


Sept 28:

Forgot to take any pics this day. But we finished the wood for the front wall, put in the plywood in the ceiling that will be used for the projector mount, and rigged up some surround sound mounts. My dad also left this day to go back home, so will be much slower going since theres only one of me now, and I have no clue what I'm doing

Sept 29:

Didn't get a ton done Thursday, mudded the air vents that we didn't get a chance to do previously and cut the wood needed for the bass traps on the sides. I also did an hours worth of vacuuming to clean up

Here are a couple pics of the speaker mounts we made the previous day.



Sept 30:
Today I caulked and primed the surround speaker mounts, installed the wood frame for the bass traps, primed the inside of the air vents, and primed the front wall.

Here you can see the front wall before priming, right after I finished added the wood for the bass traps. You can see the cavities we made to add the speaker faceplates in the wall.


After priming and a lot of vacuuming.


Hopefully tomorrow I'll get everything painted black that I primed today, and will be able to start adding the insulation to the front wall. I'm really not looking forward to adding the fabric. I still don't have a good idea for how to make it look good, and also cover up the staples after.

Looks great. What color is your fabric to cover the screen wall? I am assuming black. I used rust oleum paint on a similar project and painted the staple tops prior to stapling and it did a great job. The harder part was trying to adjust the stapler to not shoot in too far as the fabric would gather too much. Good luck, looking forward to seeing this finished!
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post #23 of 45
10/1/11 at 6:11pm
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Just happen to have a lot of rustoleum. I will have to try that. Did you cover it all with some type of trim after? Or just leave it? What did you do with the sides to hide the fabric? I should have thought of this before I started. Ha.

I was prepared to, but found that it really was not needed. I did end up putting some crown up at the top, but that was about it. For the sides I folded it over on thin strips of plywood that i cut and painted black to have something to keep it taught and have something to staple to.

Yes, there are a lot of things that I will do differently in my new house now that I have done it once! I wish I had known about this forum the first time, but I didn't.

The guy that bought my house wanted all of my equipment as well, which was fine. Now I have a very simple setup until I have time to plan, design and build a dedicated room. I have been slowly buying new equipment. Just purchased 2 Captivator subs and have been fiddling with those and just trying to enjoy.

Looking at build threads like your makes me miss and want another dedicated room though. Keep up the good work.
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post #24 of 45
10/7/11 at 3:05am
Your theater is looking great. You are continuing to make great progress even without your dad there to help. You are close enough that the desire to watch a movie will keep you going .

Nick
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post #25 of 45
10/7/11 at 5:53am
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I used valspar flat black from lowes. When I was painting the ceiling I felt like the room was sucking in on me and I even ducked a few times when turning around.
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Ha, inhaling a little too much paint fumes there huh
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post #26 of 45
10/7/11 at 6:43am
You guys are doing an awesome job, I'm following this for my own build. Keep it up, looking forward to the finished room! (I imagine you are too)
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post #27 of 45
10/11/11 at 9:53pm
Looking good. That room is going to be a light sucking black hole when you get done. Great job.

As for the panels, most guys determine where panels are required then build them. Doing it the other way around is an interesting approach.
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post #28 of 45
10/11/11 at 11:32pm
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Looking good. That room is going to be a light sucking black hole when you get done. Great job.

As for the panels, most guys determine where panels are required then build them. Doing it the other way around is an interesting approach.

I already roughly calculated how many I needed (around 16), but I had 2 pieces of OC703 leftover so thought I may as well turn em into panels. I more meant figure out where down to the exact inch and mark it all up and start installing.
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post #29 of 45
10/12/11 at 7:30am
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Looks good Roshy - it is really coming along quickly. And that is one nice looking hallway/staircase!
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post #30 of 45
10/12/11 at 11:20pm
Looking good!
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