I apologize for the cryptic subject heading but I just didn't know how else to put this. I am about to get married and here is the good, the bad, and the ugly for my future. The good is I am getting a dedicated home theater room as I wanted for a while now. The bad is that we are still going to rent for a year until buying a house. The apartment we have decided on is nice but not condusive to a home theater environment. There are 12 foot ceilings and hard wood floors. Needless to say some sound absorbing material will have to be put everywhere. The ugly is that this is an old house with plaster walls. The owner has requested that we not bolt anything into the walls or the ceiling. There is picture molding that we use to hang pictures but I sure wouldn't trust it for mounting a projector.
So now I have to figure out a way to somehow get the projector up high and inverted due to the seating area. Of course I don't want people having to shift their bodies around to make sure they are out of frame. Does anyone out there utilize some kind of stand for a situation such as this? Any ideas are greatly appreciated. The only thing that I have come up with is to buy one of those large metal racks that are about 6 feet high and mount it from underneath one of the shelves. However, I still don't like this option because I don't like the way the rack looks and it is so wide it would take up quite a bit of space. Any thoughts out there?
So now I have to figure out a way to somehow get the projector up high and inverted due to the seating area. Of course I don't want people having to shift their bodies around to make sure they are out of frame. Does anyone out there utilize some kind of stand for a situation such as this? Any ideas are greatly appreciated. The only thing that I have come up with is to buy one of those large metal racks that are about 6 feet high and mount it from underneath one of the shelves. However, I still don't like this option because I don't like the way the rack looks and it is so wide it would take up quite a bit of space. Any thoughts out there?