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Otherwise know as Digitalman's low budget, mediocre quality, half-a$$ed version of jelloslugs amazing upstairs theater...
UPDATE: July 2015 So we have basically gutted the theater and started over finally. After lots of thought and 1600sq ft of wood flooring project installed in the rest of the house we are back to 100% dedication to finishing the theater and loft area. I will try to make changes here to catch things up. I have new autocad renderings to replace the old theories and I have all different audio gear now, B&W nautilus speakers, 2 rows of seating, no bar in the back. we are going to do LED strip cove lighting with molding, a back-lit Nebulae on the ceiling in the center, ATMOS 7.1.4, and a few other new ideas. .
Typical story, been lurking around here for years waiting to build a new house that i can have a dedicated theater room in. I am on my 3rd projector now, have had a projector in all our other houses we have rented throughout the years. projecting on walls or my electric screen in the family room in most of them. Finally in December 2009 we moved into our new home we had built.I was able to customize it and remove a wall between two rooms upstairs and make it one large 22x16 room for our theater.
It's been 7 months since moving in and still no progress on the room. I have spent countless hours researching and planning on how to do everything. I have had the best of intentions and wanted to do some mediocre sound isolation and Green Glue double drywall the walls and floor. However at this point we have realized we just can't afford to do all the things we want right now. As opposed to the room sitting empty for another year we really want to do whatever we can to get the room up and functional now. I figure there is nothing stopping us from doing the GG/DD later when we can afford it. The walls would be easy enough, the only issue would be the floor which will have a riser.
I have a lot of ideas and plans for some things that i would certainly like some tips and advice on.
I did a quick and dirty google sketch-up of the basic room layout and a friend threw it together in autocad also and did some rendering tests but then he moved away
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Hopefully he will chime in here and help me with this project again.
Some of the room basics will be a double french door entryway in the left rear corner. oversight in the house design as right where the door needs to go the builder put the attic access. My attic is a myriad of crossbeams with almost no open storage area up there so i decided i don't need an attic staircase and i am just going to shorten the opening in half and seal up the rest and that leaves room for the doorway to be installed. The room has 2 windows which will be plugged similar to Jelloslugs method. There is a closet in the front let corner on the left wall. That will serve as the equipment room and i am going to cut out the wall to the left of the door for the equipment rack to be exposed there with full access to the rear from inside the closet. I plan to put an exhaust fan in the top of the closet that will suck out hot air to the other side of the wall which is at the top of our stairwell. This leads directly to the loft where our A/C intake is which i think will function well. I am also going to experiment with a whole new route for my video server equipment which will dramatically reduce the amount of heat in that closet anyways. I will be building a riser in the floor. There will be three rows of seating (if we ever can afford it) 1st row on floor, 2nd on riser and 3rd will be a bar in the back. As of right now we like row 1 to be a paired seat in the middle with a chaise lounge on each side. 2nd row will most likely be 2 paired seats and 3rd row will probably be 6 stools at the bar. I want to build a box for my projector and duct the hot air out into the attic and am looking for some advice on the best way to do this. I live in Florida and keeping the room cool is a priority. I don't know what to do about a stage, do i need one or not? My other dilemma is my riser, in that i don't know what furniture i am going to have so i don't know the dimensions and placement of my riser. I may just have to guess at it and hope it works out. what are the guidelines in building it, what height? how far from the far wall should it be? i dont want to walk around that side, should it go flush against the wall then? i don't want a space for stuff to fall in or someones foot to get caught in.
My screen is a Wilsonart Designer White 5x12 laminate, I just built my frame and have the laminate hanging from the top row of screws for now to let it settle. I am getting black velvet from joann's fabric for the frame. I have two hangman mounts for the wall.
I plan to run it full size cinemascope and use my projectors lens memory function to switch aspect ratio. it will shrink width for 16:9 to match the full height. Cinemascope will stretch to the full height and width of the screen with the black bars projecting off the screen. This is a huge dilemma of mine and i don't really know how well this is going to work out. My ceiling is only 8 feet high so i want my screen to almost touch the ceiling. I want plenty of room at the bottom for my center channel and subs. I have painted the ceiling and front wall already with BEHR Mouse Ears flat black. I wont know how it is going to reflect the bars until i bring the projector up and try it . The other 3 walls are painted with BEHR "Polished Leather" (Dark Red)
I will also need to create a masking system for the sides when i am in 16:9 mode.
Equipment: (UPDATED AUGUST 2015)
Projector: Panasonic AE-3000
Receiver: Marantz AV7702
Krell KAV-2250
B&K Reference 200.5
B&K Reference 7250 Series II
B&W Nautilus 802 Mains
B&W Nautilus HTM1 Center
B&W Nautilus SCM1 Surrounds
B&W ASW4000 Subwoofer
Yamaha NS-IW280C Ceiling
Directv HR-21 Satellite
Popcornhour C-200
Xbox 360
Well my brain is about to melt, time to post some pix, the wife is almost done with painting.
Let the beatings commence...
UPDATE: July 2015 So we have basically gutted the theater and started over finally. After lots of thought and 1600sq ft of wood flooring project installed in the rest of the house we are back to 100% dedication to finishing the theater and loft area. I will try to make changes here to catch things up. I have new autocad renderings to replace the old theories and I have all different audio gear now, B&W nautilus speakers, 2 rows of seating, no bar in the back. we are going to do LED strip cove lighting with molding, a back-lit Nebulae on the ceiling in the center, ATMOS 7.1.4, and a few other new ideas. .
Typical story, been lurking around here for years waiting to build a new house that i can have a dedicated theater room in. I am on my 3rd projector now, have had a projector in all our other houses we have rented throughout the years. projecting on walls or my electric screen in the family room in most of them. Finally in December 2009 we moved into our new home we had built.I was able to customize it and remove a wall between two rooms upstairs and make it one large 22x16 room for our theater.
It's been 7 months since moving in and still no progress on the room. I have spent countless hours researching and planning on how to do everything. I have had the best of intentions and wanted to do some mediocre sound isolation and Green Glue double drywall the walls and floor. However at this point we have realized we just can't afford to do all the things we want right now. As opposed to the room sitting empty for another year we really want to do whatever we can to get the room up and functional now. I figure there is nothing stopping us from doing the GG/DD later when we can afford it. The walls would be easy enough, the only issue would be the floor which will have a riser.
I have a lot of ideas and plans for some things that i would certainly like some tips and advice on.
I did a quick and dirty google sketch-up of the basic room layout and a friend threw it together in autocad also and did some rendering tests but then he moved away
Some of the room basics will be a double french door entryway in the left rear corner. oversight in the house design as right where the door needs to go the builder put the attic access. My attic is a myriad of crossbeams with almost no open storage area up there so i decided i don't need an attic staircase and i am just going to shorten the opening in half and seal up the rest and that leaves room for the doorway to be installed. The room has 2 windows which will be plugged similar to Jelloslugs method. There is a closet in the front let corner on the left wall. That will serve as the equipment room and i am going to cut out the wall to the left of the door for the equipment rack to be exposed there with full access to the rear from inside the closet. I plan to put an exhaust fan in the top of the closet that will suck out hot air to the other side of the wall which is at the top of our stairwell. This leads directly to the loft where our A/C intake is which i think will function well. I am also going to experiment with a whole new route for my video server equipment which will dramatically reduce the amount of heat in that closet anyways. I will be building a riser in the floor. There will be three rows of seating (if we ever can afford it) 1st row on floor, 2nd on riser and 3rd will be a bar in the back. As of right now we like row 1 to be a paired seat in the middle with a chaise lounge on each side. 2nd row will most likely be 2 paired seats and 3rd row will probably be 6 stools at the bar. I want to build a box for my projector and duct the hot air out into the attic and am looking for some advice on the best way to do this. I live in Florida and keeping the room cool is a priority. I don't know what to do about a stage, do i need one or not? My other dilemma is my riser, in that i don't know what furniture i am going to have so i don't know the dimensions and placement of my riser. I may just have to guess at it and hope it works out. what are the guidelines in building it, what height? how far from the far wall should it be? i dont want to walk around that side, should it go flush against the wall then? i don't want a space for stuff to fall in or someones foot to get caught in.
My screen is a Wilsonart Designer White 5x12 laminate, I just built my frame and have the laminate hanging from the top row of screws for now to let it settle. I am getting black velvet from joann's fabric for the frame. I have two hangman mounts for the wall.
I plan to run it full size cinemascope and use my projectors lens memory function to switch aspect ratio. it will shrink width for 16:9 to match the full height. Cinemascope will stretch to the full height and width of the screen with the black bars projecting off the screen. This is a huge dilemma of mine and i don't really know how well this is going to work out. My ceiling is only 8 feet high so i want my screen to almost touch the ceiling. I want plenty of room at the bottom for my center channel and subs. I have painted the ceiling and front wall already with BEHR Mouse Ears flat black. I wont know how it is going to reflect the bars until i bring the projector up and try it . The other 3 walls are painted with BEHR "Polished Leather" (Dark Red)
I will also need to create a masking system for the sides when i am in 16:9 mode.
Equipment: (UPDATED AUGUST 2015)
Projector: Panasonic AE-3000
Receiver: Marantz AV7702
Krell KAV-2250
B&K Reference 200.5
B&K Reference 7250 Series II
B&W Nautilus 802 Mains
B&W Nautilus HTM1 Center
B&W Nautilus SCM1 Surrounds
B&W ASW4000 Subwoofer
Yamaha NS-IW280C Ceiling
Directv HR-21 Satellite
Popcornhour C-200
Xbox 360
Well my brain is about to melt, time to post some pix, the wife is almost done with painting.
Let the beatings commence...
