[DEEEEEEEZY]

It has been a long time, since I made a post on the forum. A long time ago your help made it possible to make my current home theater, which was very helpful. I ended up going 150" AT with the screen. That is a false wall with 2 PSA 15 inch ported subs, 2 PSA mt 110s and a KLlpsh RC-62II behind it. I have ceiling speakers from monoprice, surrounds are klipsch rs-42-iis. All together makingup a 7.2.4 setup. I have it all running through a Pioneer Elite SC-97 receiver. I have two rows of seating, but the last row isnt visualized in this image. I have been very pleased.

Fortunately, and unfortunately, we are moving to a new house! Which gives both the disappointment and opportunity of starting a new build. The new house has some benefits this house doesn't as the room I plan on using is now in the basement and is two floors away from any bedrooms. Where I run into some trouble is the new room dimensions. The old room was 16.5'x21.5'. The new one is 12.5'x~21. My couch wont fit in the new house with anyreal walking room if put in the same orientation as before. It is a 5 seater as you can see from the image, and with it being over 10 feet wide, a 12 foot wide room leaves little wiggle room on the sides. I have the option of removing one of the seats from the couch to make it a 4 seater, but I am not sure I want to as it was an expensive couch.

I have considered making the new theater room on the side wall rather than the far wall and using the other space for some other creative purpose, but I wont have the space for the 150" screen anymore, I did the calculations based on the room width and height (which is now 8 ft instead of 10 feet) and a 100" screen is as big as I will be able to go.

Thoughts? Go wild! as even the most unexpected recommendations proved to be very helpful with my last build.

Thanks!

 

[BIGmouthinDC]

I could never go back to that small of a screen unless it was a private 2 seat theater, so I would consider:

-going with a 3-4 seat theater with maybe a back bar for overflow.
-shining the projector through a porthole in the side wall to increase the throw distance resulting in a larger image.
-getting a different projector to handle the short throw
-use the couch somewhere else in the house to save your investment and buy something else.
It seems that the easiest solution is to just use 4 of your 5 seats and see if you can use the leftover somewhere else.

 

[DEEEEEEEZY]

I could never go back to that small of a screen unless it was a private 2 seat theater, so I would consider:

-going with a 3-4 seat theater with maybe a back bar for overflow.
-shining the projector through a porthole in the side wall to increase the throw distance resulting in a larger image.
-getting a different projector to handle the short throw
-use the couch somewhere else in the house to save your investment and buy something else.
It seems that the easiest solution is to just use 4 of your 5 seats and see if you can use the leftover somewhere else.

Big mouth, I had hoped you would be one of the folks to comment. Every one of these are excellent recommendations. I had not even considered a back bar, but now that you put that idea in my head, I am super excited about it. That idea alone, makes me reconsider removing one of the seats and making it a 4 seat couch theater with room for eats in the back. Which would of course open me back up to a 120 inch screen, which would solve one of your other comments.

 

[DEEEEEEEZY]

I could never go back to that small of a screen unless it was a private 2 seat theater, so I would consider:

-going with a 3-4 seat theater with maybe a back bar for overflow.

A question about these back bars, are they usually built in or are the more like furniture?

 

[niterida]

A question about these back bars, are they usually built in or are the more like furniture?

I built mine in, out of brick - BAD move !!
It isn't quite in the right spot and I also need to cut holes in it. Bot h problems would be easy solved if Ihad built it freestanding from wood

But to help the OP - it is a very effective way of providing overflow seating seating for those rare occassions we have more bums than seats

 

[BIGmouthinDC]

A question about these back bars, are they usually built in or are the more like furniture?

they benefit from being anchored for stability but it is not an absolute requirement.

Just had a discussion yesterday about a back bar, they don't have to be bar top height, 42 inches, you can do counter top height 36 inches have lower stools and avoid blocking the rear surround speakers at the MLP.