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Hi Bud, Wow you're right, the bar frames are strikingly similar. I had my design for a while but you certainly had some influence on it. I saw your bar when I started my forum and took a few mental notes. I see you have the sink in the middle, my sink will be at the end by the wall to conserve space. I have some friends that have a bar that has no cabinets at the entrance end and its really great for entertaining because they can fit 2-3 people on stools behind the bar and more in front of the bar, great for games, snacking, drinking, etc. I'm planning to emulate that.

I'm really liking the doors opening out, gives more room in the HT and my back wall is so wide (double walls with gap) that the open doors barely stick out into the main room.

I'll have to get my bar drawn up and posted so we can discuss.

Dave

Hi Steve, Thanks! I'll keep posting pictures. Right now I'm struggling to dry 30 bags of sand and progress is slooooooow.

Anyone know of some creative ideas? I've spread out some plastic and put 2 bags on it spread out with the fan and dehumidifier. Hoping that greater surface area will help. I'll also do the same outside tomorrow with some more bags as it will be sunny.

Steve, I'm gonna check out your thread but right now my Internet is sloooow too (everything going slow today??).

Dave

Hi Chris, Thank you. The dricore seems to be a really great product and pretty straight forward to install. I have a few squeaks but I think they will be fine once the padding and carpeting are in (not to mention I plan to drownd out any background noises with many decibels of HT sound).

Dave

Drying sand has become my preoccupation so I can close the stage. Carpet comes on Tuesday morning.

Dave

Hi John, I've posted drawings and had discussion about the doors swinging both directions, so I can see I've caused a little confusion. I installed them a few weeks ago and they swing out of the room (you pull on the door to open it when entering the room). I had some comments about the benefits of doing it this way but never considered fire safety. Luckily they swing out and safety should not be an issue.

Send my a link to you theater pictures when you get them posted. Good luck.

Thanks

Dave

We've made a lot of progress since my last posts:

Stage: I sucessfully filled the stage with 2,000lbs of sand plus a about 30 cheap concrete patio blocks (didn't have time to dry out more sand). Drying sand took much longer than I thought. In the Home Theater Room with a dehumidifier and a fan took about 12 hours/bag:

I utilized my two patios to dry about 8 -12 bags/sunney day to finish up:


I used crossmembers in the end 2 cavities to make sure the weight of the sand kept the stage down. The pipe in the photo is the drain from our wash machine. It used to make a loud noise and now under 6 inches of sand can't hear a thing:


Here's a shot of the concrete blocks. I used them to take up volume. The rest on sand, are covered by sand and do not touch the edges of the cavities:


I completed the stage by filling each cavity slightly over the top, folding the plastic over the top of the sand and screwing the top on. Carpet came on May 30th, and I'm glad to be able to close this chapter. It turned out great.

Dave

I also poured a shower base and got the shower ready for tile this last weekend. Here's a shot of the shower. More pictures are in my album:



Dave

Hi, Thanks.

Yes, drying out the sand was an unexpectedly long task.

I bought the Dricore for $5.70 per square (2x2) at Home Depot.

Dave

I also bought my first set of trim. Birch casing in colonial style. Birch was hard to find and pretty expensive but that's what we have in the rest of the house and we both like the look of the wood, very elegant look. The trim will be in the basement not in the theater, I think I'll go with painted trim there but we'll see.

Here's the casing before staining:


Here's the casing after staining:


We used an all in one stain and varnish product to save time, so far so good.

You can see my borrowed tile cutter in the pictures; it will get a workout this weekend.

Dave

Tiled in front of the fireplace with tumbled marble prior to carpet install. Here are some pictures:





Dave

Hi Dave, Good to hear from you. Every bag of sand I bought was moist and the plastic locks it in. Be prepared to dry it out. Im in the final push to get most of the basement complete. The Home Theater will be tweaked for months I'm sure.

Dave

I purchased some slightly used Home Theater seating this weekend. I will be picking up some of it today and some early in the week. Based on what I bought I will have a slightly curved configuration of 3 seats in the front row and a straight configuration of 3 seats in the back row.

The seats are black leather Berkline. It kind of figures it hasn't rained here in about 3 weeks but the day I want to pick up some furniture its pouring, so we'll see.

Dave

I've had the Home Theater up and running (electronically) for a few weeks now. Here's what it looks like:






The lawn furniture will be replaced with these chairs as soon as I paint the walls:




Dave

I've been working very hard to get the electrical and plumbing completed.

The electrician came on Monday and we hooked up 4 of the circuits and he showed me a few more things I can do on my own. I installed the last of the fixtures tonight and have about 10 more outlets to wire and then I can call him back to finish.

Bath is tiled and the plumbers were here tonight and finished their work. Toilet is in, bath sink cabinet is in, bar sink is in and most importantly water is back to our refrigerator upstairs (we now have ice and filtered water again). They also ran a water line for the refrigerator behind the bar. Here's an older shot of the bar prior to putting the sink in:




Here's the lights above the bar:


And here is the light in the main room:


I'm off to golf this weekend so no work but I'll be back at it next week.

Dave

Hi Bud,

These are the Maple cabinets that they stock at Lowes. They were a little bit more $$than I thought they should be but they will work nicely for us.

Dave

Hi Dave,

I bought the chairs slightly used down in Illinois (about a 50 minute drive for us).

My riser is 2x8 material with a 3/4" OSB deck and carpeting rolled under the bottom and on the top, final height is close to 8.5". I'm excited about getting the chairs down there but I want to paint the room Navy Blue first.

Dave

Bud you are correct. The end units each have power recline on both rows (4 total). The straight row is power massage and heat on each seat. The straight row also has a female adapter to hold a touch screen controller/monitor on the right end chair. I guess it could also hold a tray, I'll have to do a little research on that.

I wish the curved row had storage but no such luck the armrests are not able to open.

The curved row are the Berkine 083 series and the straight seats are the X194.

I can't wait to bring them down to the HT. Got to run to work, bye.

Yes, I will have 2 extra seats available that I will either sell here or on ebay or put in storage.

Dave

Hi Anthony,

Just for the record the chairs are all black. I had an angle shot with some sunlight that made that one picture look like the back row was brown.

Dave