Hello Everyone, First post here, probably a little late, but have been busy building. Well it's been 3 long months since I started crawling this forum, learning everything I could, and stealing as many good ideas from you guys as I could find (for those of you I blatantly stole from, thanks & sorry
I guess this all started because I wanted a bigger TV, then figured I'd do something with one of the spare bedrooms that the Mrs. and I don't use. The largest one was 10'4" by 14' which created it's own set of problems. We don't have basements for the most part in Southern California, so we had to make due. Our goal was to do this pretty cheap, and I'd say we did pretty well.
Carpet gets installed tomorrow, followed by some touch ups here and there and installing the projector and such.
But below is the progress up to this point, There are some fantastic small theaters on here, but it can be hard to find alot of samples that are this small, so hopefully this might help someone with space constraints see that it can be done, as proven by the others on here who've done it.
Equipment list:
Mitsubishi HC4000 12' throw onto 100" 16x9 doable screen.
Denon AVR-1712
Pioneer FS-51 Towers with matching center and surrounds with Polk rears.
Dayton RS 12" sub with 300w bash amp in custom enclosure (haven't built yet)
Palliser Sequelle seats
And it begins with a tape square (ended up moving screen to other wall)
Then comes the wood (there would be alot more of these trips. a little advice buy the best and straightest wood you can, the savings on the cheap **** cost HUGE amounts of time in the long run)
Getting carpet and base pulled up.
Hanging Soffit Ledgers.
Front window. had to go eventually.
Framing columns.
Other side columns.
Starting the stage.
Windows Gone!
Screen lights
Side Lights
Riser getting built (had to go back and do cross braces later)
Got the speakers, they were cheap but I'm not an audiophile and think they sound great.
Test fitting the pallisers. 3 in the back 2 in the front. seating is at 12.5' from the back row and 8.5' from the front row. The backs wont have room to recline but I can deal with that over the fronts being too close to the screen. We knew this going in. Got all 5 in new condition on craigslist for $500 for the lot. and the guy was only 3 miles away.
No one said this wasn't a messy job.
Drywalls all hanged and speakers wired up. sounds good to me.
Closet concession stand. Not quite done yet but getting there.
The carpet we are using got from a remnant warehouse apparently from disneyland tower of terror. (I'm not sure haven't been there in years, and never trust sales people so who knows.)
Preliminary painting is done.
Molding for the room.
molding is hung.
More molding.
Playing with panorama iphone ap. Here it is as it stands.
And thats all we've got for now. It's been a long process and many thanks to all the people who've shared there ideas, and techniques on this forum. Really priceless stuff on here.
I guess this all started because I wanted a bigger TV, then figured I'd do something with one of the spare bedrooms that the Mrs. and I don't use. The largest one was 10'4" by 14' which created it's own set of problems. We don't have basements for the most part in Southern California, so we had to make due. Our goal was to do this pretty cheap, and I'd say we did pretty well.
Carpet gets installed tomorrow, followed by some touch ups here and there and installing the projector and such.
But below is the progress up to this point, There are some fantastic small theaters on here, but it can be hard to find alot of samples that are this small, so hopefully this might help someone with space constraints see that it can be done, as proven by the others on here who've done it.
Equipment list:
Mitsubishi HC4000 12' throw onto 100" 16x9 doable screen.
Denon AVR-1712
Pioneer FS-51 Towers with matching center and surrounds with Polk rears.
Dayton RS 12" sub with 300w bash amp in custom enclosure (haven't built yet)
Palliser Sequelle seats
And it begins with a tape square (ended up moving screen to other wall)
Then comes the wood (there would be alot more of these trips. a little advice buy the best and straightest wood you can, the savings on the cheap **** cost HUGE amounts of time in the long run)
Getting carpet and base pulled up.
Hanging Soffit Ledgers.
Front window. had to go eventually.
Framing columns.
Other side columns.
Starting the stage.
Windows Gone!
Screen lights
Side Lights
Riser getting built (had to go back and do cross braces later)
Got the speakers, they were cheap but I'm not an audiophile and think they sound great.
Test fitting the pallisers. 3 in the back 2 in the front. seating is at 12.5' from the back row and 8.5' from the front row. The backs wont have room to recline but I can deal with that over the fronts being too close to the screen. We knew this going in. Got all 5 in new condition on craigslist for $500 for the lot. and the guy was only 3 miles away.
No one said this wasn't a messy job.
Drywalls all hanged and speakers wired up. sounds good to me.
Closet concession stand. Not quite done yet but getting there.
The carpet we are using got from a remnant warehouse apparently from disneyland tower of terror. (I'm not sure haven't been there in years, and never trust sales people so who knows.)
Preliminary painting is done.
Molding for the room.
molding is hung.
More molding.
Playing with panorama iphone ap. Here it is as it stands.
And thats all we've got for now. It's been a long process and many thanks to all the people who've shared there ideas, and techniques on this forum. Really priceless stuff on here.
I'm up in the Valencia area.
