Oak Knoll Cinema Construction w/pics !

Hello,

I am a new home owner looking to get into a dedicated home theater room on a budget. My equipment as of right now is as follows:

Original Equipment
NEC XG110 CRT FP
HK AVR 325
JBL NSPIIa Speaker Package
Parts Express Dayton 10” Sub

Equipment Version 1.1
Behringer A500 Amplifiers x 3
Onix Rocket RS-150 x 4 & RSC-200
AV123 MFW-15

Equipment Version 2.0
Panasonic AE4000U
SeymourAV 2.35:1 ATS
EconoWaveGuide Deluxe LCR's
EconoWaveGuide Wedge Surrounds <---coming soon (this fall/winter)
TubaHT Subwoofer
Onkyo 1008
Oppo BDP-93 (free from AVS as door prize!)

Background

New home has a bonus room in the basement that was previously used as a family room with built in surround sound for an older Mitsubishi RPTV with only one couch for seating.

Current Room Tour….follow me….
The room is approximately 22’x14’ with some interesting shapes…

Before...all clean and domestic looking


Current Status...







Table of Contents: [work in progress...please forgive]

1. Theater layout Rev. 0
2. Painting room
3. Making blackout cloth screen with wood frame and velvet trim
4. Theater seats from eBay!
5. Theater layout Rev. 1
6. Making spot for equipment rack
7. Installing Linacoustic and wall panels/frames
8. Theater Rendering Rev. 1
9. Building risers
10. Mounting projector
11. Getting carpet
12. First Unveiling Appearance
13. Theater Layout Rev. 3
14. Adding projector hushbox
15. Building new custom LCR speakers
16. Building acoustically transparent screen wall
17. Building my new subwoofer...a BFM Tuba HT Folded Horn Subwoofer!
18. Building new Scope 2.35:1 Acoustically Transparent Screen
19. Adding Acoustically Transparent Screen Lighting for affect
20. Adding cabinets and counter-tops

Now, you can see I have been marking up what I am imagining….

The crt projector I purchased from mikecazzx on AVS forum came with a stand that he built, which I will either use or recreate with a different finish. Here is what mike gave me…including the projector…well not gave I guess..


Either way these things are huge at around 34” x 54”. I don’t really like the idea of ceiling mounting this 150lb mammoth but I might change my mind soon enough. I was looking at this type of home theater style seat..

Theater seating.

So the crt projector and stand in the middle of two theater style seats on each side in the front row at about 11’ from the 110” screen (preliminarily).







Then building a riser behind this first row (possibly with some bass shakers to fit one couch for now.

I will modify one of those “dvd racks” to be an equipment rack opening…



For room color I want to use this color…


Which is a sort of deep red/maroon, with a black chair rail and some sort of fabric on the lower half of the wall. The screen wall will be some sort of black fabric as well.

I was contemplating closing the room off with a wall in the back and cutting a door through this wall….


But the hallway is pretty narrow behind it so I don’t think I can make this work.




Thanks for reading the whole thing…I guess I always read these things and wish people would put more pictures and less words…so that is what I did.

Any suggestions thus far?? Where is a good future rendering when you need one?? lol

Still need a theater room name also….

True, true...I forgot the plan.

I did this in MS paint so don't laugh.

Now you see my dilemma...I might bring the side wall in to match the built-in depth to make the side hallway larger and put the door in the side.

I also agree that it stinks that the best seats in the house are being given to the projector. It seems that the nature of the CRT projectors is you want easy access to the insides to mess around with stuff.

I might build the tried and true unistrut mount for ceiling mounting but I would hate to keep having people come over to help me get it down and up and down and up....

I have thought of that because that is how the room was setup when we bought the house. I didn't like the feel. I thinkt that a longer narrow room will give a more theater type feeling than one wide row of seating. Just my preference but thanks.

I am seriously considering ceiling mounting now and will have to look into this....

Ok, so I will entertain ceiling mounting the projector but there is no way I am doing the short wide theater. I just don't like how it looks. I like feeling more like an actual theater!

Here is an updated "plan".



I am thinking about continuing the soffit all around the theater to maintain some continuity around the screen. I have removed the equipment rack and will most likely place it closer to the projector behind the wall with maybe only a dvd player in the actual theater and everything else behind the scenes. I can also bring the left wall in a bit to not make the theater so right hand lopsided but more narrow which is bad. I am looking at it.

Any thoughts on the soffit or the new layout? Thanks guys.

Here is a pic of the soffit I am thinking of...I just now thought of putting the center channel speaker in there too!

A little update. I have people coming over to my house and I couldn't resist in getting something done! So I threw up some paint. I am building a BOC screen now and may start to build a riser next week.



Still Wet!

I am going to have the bottom half with some sort of black fabric or cloth...something cheap.

Man I hate trim work.

Hey! I don't paint for a living and it is WET in the picture...so yes it is FLAT black and EGGSHELL burgundy wine. It dries smooth and even. Thanks for the comments though...this is a temporary fix to make it look nice to get all my friends on the same page as myself...right now they think I am crazy!

Ok, ok, ok...guilty...I have always gone up and down like Mr. Miagi taught me.

You can't tell once it dries...at least from my experience...but if you come over to my house and point out my painting errors I will kindly ask you to leave! Once the lights off no one will see anything anyway right!

Thanks for the tips...pretty sure I have seen that on some TLC shows before though.

I have pretty much decided to mount on the ceiling but for this unoffical unveiling in three weeks I will most likely not have time...heck I doubt I can even get the risers and carpet in!

I am trying to find out what I should do about bass shakers or butt kickers for my risers...maybe just buy the actual unit without amp right now and just wire them up for later purchase of amp...not enough cash flow for them right now but once the riser is up and carpeted there is no going back...does everyone fill there riser with something? sand? insulation? nothing?

I received and installed my Insteon dimmers



and controller(I thought this was wireless!).



I made a quick BOC screen with some velvet trim. The BOC was from Rosebrand and had some spots on it! Too late to turn back now though...it is only a temporary fix and will serve the purpose just fine for now.



Now I am looking for solutions for lining the bottom half of the room. I have thought about using linacoustic with fabric over top or possibly just the fabric over top for this first little gathering. I will have to decide, and cost may be the deciding factor.