Big Mouth In DC's beautiful black/grey theater - Page 9

If I fail I think I will take you up on the offer.

You assume I had a plan.

Actually I have the basic floor plan around here somewhere that I used for the permit. At the time I was planning a pioneer 910 RP tv built into the wall, some game tables and a bar. Also a home office as my company at the time had closed it's physical regional offices.

Then I discovered AVS and things went down hill quickly. My productivity went to hell, I lost all interest in work and retired. And suddenly anything I built or bought was never good enough once someone pointed out the flaws on the forum. I discovered a new disease Upgraditis for which there is no known cure.

I Really like how Curtis did his plan and If I had seen that layout and If my house had the sun-room option I would have put my office under the sun-room space and did exactly what he did.

At least post the evil plan.

WOW!!!!

Very slick...

giving me some great ideas here, thanx...

I just love this room, very classic, not to much or to little, just perfect.

this is exactly what im looking for to do in my room...

Great job!

Thanks for the feed back.

Just to give some credit for my inspiration to Kirk's Uptown Paradiso. It was DE design.

good details here:

http://home.comcast.net/~kirkk/uptownparadiso.html



We actually picked the wall colors based on how his pics looked on my monitor. When I found out the actual colors they weren't even close to what we wanted. So in essence my color scheme is due to the fact that Kirk's camera/lighting/mymonitor didn't render accurate colors for his final Pics.

sweet will check it out...

i just show my wife ur room and she want the same one now...lol

That's funny right there...I don't care who you are!

CJ

Here is a Pic he took with a flash and the colors are actually closer to real. A lot more green then we wanted.

Did you do GOM on the walls? If so, what colors?

If not, what did you use?

CJ

GOM, Crystal blue top, Baltic bottom. Ceiling and trim is Lowe's Drizzling Mist.

Here are most of the colors we used.

We are just now picking colors and such. Funny how much more hands on my wife is now.

She had been leaving me alone for the most part up until now...

That's a bad thing?



CJ

Its good that she is helping... agreeing on colors is another story. At least the black ceiling isn't an issue.

Man, I can't get over how cool that marquee looks over the bar (with the Arbor Oak Cinema text). I simply must shamelessly copy that for the marquee over my bar... although mine is going to be quite a bit smaller than yours...

Beautiful work indeed. I love the clean, sharp look. Awesome!

Thanks Tuck.

Excellent work Bigs! I think your biggest challenge is fending off the hoard of neighbors wanting to hang out down there!

Is a Home Theater ever really finished?

I sure hope not or I'm in a WORLD of trouble.

man I just love this room and its color scheme...

Bigmouthindc, would you happen to have any left over peices of the fabrics you can mail to me? I would pay for shipping ofcourse... the fabric that really interests me is the carpet, but I would like to get a sample of the others as well. dont worry about the wood...

also on the wall behind the seats, is that paint or fabric? if paint can you give me the color?

thanks, and my wife just absolutely love this room, everyday she says, oh look at this and look at that. you did an amazing job on it...

I'm new to all this so please no laughing at my question What does GOM mean?

BigMouthinDC I love your theater. It's one of the best I've seen

THANKS

GOM is short for Guilford of Maine, the name of the company that makes the fabric. It is most frequently used for office cubicles. It is a polyester fabric and acoustically transparent. GOM makes several styles of fabric the one most frequently used is 701.

See sensiblesoundsolutions.com

Thanks for letting me know. I've been seeing it throughout this thread and have been lost every time it was mentioned.

Wow...very nice and I picked up a tip...PVC columns.

now I have the bug again...on to phase 2.

HI Big. I too am in northern virginia and just purchased a new home. I'm looking for a basement remodeling company to help redo the basement. If there was someone that helped do yours I would sure like to talk with them.

Thanks!

You are talking to him.

wow.... well congrats to you and bummer to me. i was hoping there was someone i could hire to help do my basement. i'm lucky if i can change batteries by myself much less all of the work your basement must have taken!

Fellow Northern Virginian...welcome! You'll find that most of us slave away at our builds, but I do know of a few folks that hired contractors to help with their builds. Reach out to Bill MacKrell. ("Bmackrell" here). He may have a lead or two. He hired a contractor to complete most of the work if memory serves, and he's in Ashburn. His build turned out very well.

Good luck!

CJ

I think we built our Home Theaters because we all wanted the extras, all of them. If someone was to pay a contractor they pick and chose the work. Taping or installing the rugs, maybe Pluming or Heating, wiring the home theater. The rest we do our self, because we want the extras, and we are all different in what we want rope lighting high or low on the wall, I also used rope lighting under the hand rail has a nice look to it. Stage custom work here all the Stages are special all Custom work which means Dollars. Thats one reason why we are here and also why the theater is never finish always tinker thats not bad thing. Money and Imagination Money may for short, but the Imagination never ends here. I think thats the Deal for most. Just my 2 cents, Later

wow. i've been trolling thru the threads on different homes. I don't have anywhere NEAR the talent level required to do this kind of work by myself. Much less the time.

Do any of you northern virginia-ites have any recommendations on basement remodeling companies that have some home theatre experience?