ELmO's Bachelor Pad Construction - Page 6

Nice work you are doing.

Yep, I was on same whole basement plan; work, extra $ = buy, install, repeat cycle the next month....during winter months only.....for 5 years...stay outta debt, don't pay any interest % to "da-man".

Very nice! I need something like that in back to add a little interest. My view is um a little challenging compared to yours (basically a view of the garage).

Us too in New England. That's why we're so bloody fortunate to be in this hobby, Elmo! More time for the theater, muahhhhaaahhhaaaa. Speaking of which, now I realize why I've been gaining more weight every winter than the previous. Must integrate a treadmill into next theater build.... or not!

Nice to see you've made such an extreme commitment to the project and going for a performance theater (mostly) If I do another theater, everything is getting the black velvet treatment, even the seats, lol.

If you're not too picky, elmer's glue rolled onto the ceiling and just apply staples spray painted black - enough to hold them to the ceiling until the glue dries. If I could do it again, I'd take more time (I'm impatient as hell sometimes) and build frames, or apply to existing sound panels that once they are velvet covered you can then screw into the ceiling, then cover the screws with a decorative piece of 1x1 mdf or cardboard also covered with velvet or the like velcroed to the panel itself. In that way you can get some interesting and more professional look with seams where the panels meet, although the velvet is so dark you might not even see them.

Fidelio black velvet. I'll be following this. I thought about doing this for my ceiling as well because paint is not going to be a particularly good option. What about the glue seeping through the fabric? I thought because of that problem, using frames was the best/only way to go about it.

Well in that case your 2/3 the way to a star ceiling! Peer pressure!

From what I've read, most people don't find it distracting. There is always a switch. But if you are going for a no frills room, a star ceiling is just another aesthetic.

Any updates inside? Or you just been playing outside?

Nice pictures. Great to go through the process over the last 4 years!

One question, what in the heck are great rooms and epic rooms and master rooms?

Pretty, I love the open space something I've been craving for some time now..Must be nice to live without any fences, would love to see my daughter running around getting into trouble out and about. Really nice.

Thanks

Djoel

Being single is EXACTLY why you need so many projector setups!

You've come a long way with that yard. The last time I saw a pic it was just a small paver area. Looks really good. Did you do the pavers yourself? If so, how bad was it? We moved into a new house in June. As you know, with it comes all of these projects. We have plans to put a deck and screened in porch on next spring, and I wanted to do a paver patio underneath with a walkway that leads out to a firepit and seating area in the corner of the yard (a similar setup to your raised wall, but with the firepit centered in the ground versus the wall).

I don't think you're crazy with the 3 setups. At our last house the theater was the only 5.1 setup in the house. The two other TV rooms were just stereo sound. Now that we've moved I know have it in the basement and our family room, with plans for some kind of surround setup in our loft as well. It's nice having options when gaming or watching movies.

Your desktop LAN setup you mentioned - are you thinking LAN gaming or something? I wasn't clear on where you were heading with that.

Thanks! We took a little bit of a hit selling our previous home but are hoping the deal we got on this one will end up for the better in a few years when things begin to stablilize in the market.

I hear ya on the one project at a time thing. We were fortunate enough to get this house built with a fully finished basment, which was an incentive the builder was offering at the time to push homes out the door. It's a little bit of a struggle mapping out the future theater, bar, and game room inside a finished product, but I'm seeing it as a challenge that I think I can work with. In the long run, it should cost far less to modify the room rather than build it from scratch, so we'll see.

I'm guessing the hillbilly neighbor is on the other side of that wall over evergreens (been there and done that in the past, so I get it).

I'm thinking of contracting out the paver work as well. I think it's something I could probably do on my own, but I also know that you need a really solid level base to work off of, so I don't want to run the risk of having things move on me down the road if I did it myself.

You can definately do a LAN setup for far less than that setup you showed. Do you like the look? It's a little too office/conference room looking for me. If you installed your desktops and router on the backside of a wall (not sure if you have access to an unfinished area or what you're thinking), you could just put a wall plate in that had 4-6 ports for ethernet. That would be a very clean look and would also eliminate the clutter and noise (not to mention the heat) of all of those computers. I've considered doing something similar here, but we have a distributed network installed already that allows me to plug right in in several rooms. I used to be a big PC gamer but haven't stayed up to speed on hardware over the past few years, so we now have a PS3 and a couple of XBox 360s that do the trick.

What kind of games are you into? I play a lot of FPS type games and have considered building a gaming rig just for the new Battlefield 3 game coming out in October.