Well, here's my build thread!
The Seth-o-Plex 1.0 has been taken completely apart. I bought a 1950's era house over in Eastern Oregon and have moved.
The basement has/had two "bedrooms", but I have other plans for those...
I've always wanted my own dedicated theater room with 100% light control set up exactly how I want it instead of making do with the room I had available. This space was the deciding factor for this house.
First up, here's the general overview of my end goal:
Edit 9/20/18 - Here's how it actually turned out:
I already had a three seat sectional that I really liked, so I bought another 3 seats plus 2 drink consoles to go between them. I didn't get the consoles in the diagram. I'm thinking I'll put them in the front row as that's going to be MLP and the most used.
Added 12/15/2018: Full equipment list in Post 36
Added 12/14/18:
Taking down the blue ceiling tiles from what was a kid's playroom:
The wall between the two rooms was in the wrong place, so my buddy Jeff (assigned as project manager) came up with a plan to move it and we made it happen:
The overhead beams are load bearing, so we had to leave one support post there for now. We'll be addressing that shortly:
The wall has been moved back now. There's some overhead ducting dictating how far we could go and still leave room for the relocation of the load bearing beams:
When I pulled up that section of carpet, the rubber backing stayed stuck to the floor and has to be scraped off by hand. Luckily it comes up pretty easily, so it's more time consuming than anything:
TV mockup just to try and get a sense of how big the TV will be at different distances. I was a little off - the TV is a bit bigger, so I'll have to fix that so I can use the handy-dandy Riser Height Calculator to get the second row riser correct:
De-paneling the walls:
Found a crack in the foundation that will need to be repaired...
...which apparently led to some rotten plywood. So this project now has more realized benefit than just entertainment:
De-plywooding:
Getting there...
And...a crack in the floor that will need repaired as well:
So that's the start! I'll be updating as the project goes on and I figure stuff out.
The Seth-o-Plex 1.0 has been taken completely apart. I bought a 1950's era house over in Eastern Oregon and have moved.
The basement has/had two "bedrooms", but I have other plans for those...
I've always wanted my own dedicated theater room with 100% light control set up exactly how I want it instead of making do with the room I had available. This space was the deciding factor for this house.
First up, here's the general overview of my end goal:
Edit 9/20/18 - Here's how it actually turned out:
I already had a three seat sectional that I really liked, so I bought another 3 seats plus 2 drink consoles to go between them. I didn't get the consoles in the diagram. I'm thinking I'll put them in the front row as that's going to be MLP and the most used.
Added 12/15/2018: Full equipment list in Post 36
Added 12/14/18:
Taking down the blue ceiling tiles from what was a kid's playroom:
The wall between the two rooms was in the wrong place, so my buddy Jeff (assigned as project manager) came up with a plan to move it and we made it happen:
The overhead beams are load bearing, so we had to leave one support post there for now. We'll be addressing that shortly:
The wall has been moved back now. There's some overhead ducting dictating how far we could go and still leave room for the relocation of the load bearing beams:
When I pulled up that section of carpet, the rubber backing stayed stuck to the floor and has to be scraped off by hand. Luckily it comes up pretty easily, so it's more time consuming than anything:
TV mockup just to try and get a sense of how big the TV will be at different distances. I was a little off - the TV is a bit bigger, so I'll have to fix that so I can use the handy-dandy Riser Height Calculator to get the second row riser correct:
De-paneling the walls:
Found a crack in the foundation that will need to be repaired...
...which apparently led to some rotten plywood. So this project now has more realized benefit than just entertainment:
De-plywooding:
Getting there...
And...a crack in the floor that will need repaired as well:
So that's the start! I'll be updating as the project goes on and I figure stuff out.