In looking at the overall layout of my room, I have completely changed my layout from the original plan. The space is a bit smaller than I would like, but after some thinking I have come up with a plan that looks pretty good on paper, but now I want to bring it to the experts for advice and constructive criticism.
Being a colonial home, results in the steps coming right down in the middle of the basement causing some issues, but I have accepted it and came up with a solution that i feel will work.
Depending on how I handle my stairs will determine the overall width of my room. I can have the angle of the stairs be visible in the room, or I can block them out completely, depending on what the presence of part of the steps can have on the acoustics of my room.
My current design puts the wall without the step in the room...here is an image to show what my current thinking is:
the piece that hangs out there would potentially be my component rack built into the wall.
Then because I want to also have a man room area with kitchen and table for cards, I had to open the wall to connect the two rooms, and then I would place a counter where the support beams are to allow for people to sit or stand there and still watch the television or movie that is showing. I got this idea from frorule, http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=948258
here is a rendering that illustrates what I am thinking here:
The next image I have is a view from the front to illustrate how things line up from the front of the room where the screen is hung.
The problem I have is that currently I have a couch and a love seat, there are no plans for theater seats at the current moment...that would be somewhere in the long future. Therefore I must work with what I have for the time being. The couches have recliners built in so the will work sort of. Because I am stuck with only one row means that the love set couch will go on the side wall, I know I know, this is not ideal, but considering that I wont have 10 people down there all the time, it will work for the few times that I do. So with that said, I will not that until last night I was thinking the small couch will be on the right wall (looking from the front) but now I think it will go on the left wall. Where you can see the cavities on the left, I can gain at least 1 foot of space. The problem I noticed last night was that when I recline the couches the foot thing that comes up would hit each other, so I have to move to the other side to gain the little more room. Then instead of centering the big couch on the back wall like originally planned, I will shift it a bit so the the reclining section on the end in in the center of the screen (the large couch has 3 sections and only the 2 ends recline and I figure instead of a non-reclining section in the middle of the screen, I should have a reclining section because we all know that is more ideal).
again looking from the front, the left opening in the back will turn into a complete opening/doorway to get to each side of the theater (kitchen/bar/standing side to the theater side) I hope that makes sense. I will then have the door into the theater side be on the right wall in the back and another door would be outside of that leading into the other side of the theater, without having to enter the theater.
Now with all that said, I will mention some hardware I am thinking about and what I already have.
I have an onkyo 805 and Klipsch RF-82s for the front and RF-62s for the sides and rears. I would plan to buy an rc-62 to match as a center....I am thinking about a 1 foot high stage and then the rest of the towers will also sit on 1 foot stands.
what I would plan for...Panasonic AT2000 projector and then a carada brilliant white screen. because I would not plan to hide the the speakers behind the screen I dont think I need an SMX.
I figure screen throw distance to roughly 13 feet give or take. and then screen size to be like 110" wide, although that may be too much for my distance, where I have to cut back to 96" wide I think...
So this is my starting point, where I actually have rough plans made up, now, going forward I have to think about actual screen size to avoid screen door effect, acoustic treatments if needed, where the best spot for the rear speakers is, and what can be done with the stairs and their possible presence in the room. So feel free, ask away, any questions you may have, criticize if you would like, or even suggest things that could possibly be better in improving my design. I am open to everything people have to say. Thanks in advance.
Being a colonial home, results in the steps coming right down in the middle of the basement causing some issues, but I have accepted it and came up with a solution that i feel will work.
Depending on how I handle my stairs will determine the overall width of my room. I can have the angle of the stairs be visible in the room, or I can block them out completely, depending on what the presence of part of the steps can have on the acoustics of my room.
My current design puts the wall without the step in the room...here is an image to show what my current thinking is:

the piece that hangs out there would potentially be my component rack built into the wall.
Then because I want to also have a man room area with kitchen and table for cards, I had to open the wall to connect the two rooms, and then I would place a counter where the support beams are to allow for people to sit or stand there and still watch the television or movie that is showing. I got this idea from frorule, http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=948258
here is a rendering that illustrates what I am thinking here:

The next image I have is a view from the front to illustrate how things line up from the front of the room where the screen is hung.

The problem I have is that currently I have a couch and a love seat, there are no plans for theater seats at the current moment...that would be somewhere in the long future. Therefore I must work with what I have for the time being. The couches have recliners built in so the will work sort of. Because I am stuck with only one row means that the love set couch will go on the side wall, I know I know, this is not ideal, but considering that I wont have 10 people down there all the time, it will work for the few times that I do. So with that said, I will not that until last night I was thinking the small couch will be on the right wall (looking from the front) but now I think it will go on the left wall. Where you can see the cavities on the left, I can gain at least 1 foot of space. The problem I noticed last night was that when I recline the couches the foot thing that comes up would hit each other, so I have to move to the other side to gain the little more room. Then instead of centering the big couch on the back wall like originally planned, I will shift it a bit so the the reclining section on the end in in the center of the screen (the large couch has 3 sections and only the 2 ends recline and I figure instead of a non-reclining section in the middle of the screen, I should have a reclining section because we all know that is more ideal).
again looking from the front, the left opening in the back will turn into a complete opening/doorway to get to each side of the theater (kitchen/bar/standing side to the theater side) I hope that makes sense. I will then have the door into the theater side be on the right wall in the back and another door would be outside of that leading into the other side of the theater, without having to enter the theater.
Now with all that said, I will mention some hardware I am thinking about and what I already have.
I have an onkyo 805 and Klipsch RF-82s for the front and RF-62s for the sides and rears. I would plan to buy an rc-62 to match as a center....I am thinking about a 1 foot high stage and then the rest of the towers will also sit on 1 foot stands.
what I would plan for...Panasonic AT2000 projector and then a carada brilliant white screen. because I would not plan to hide the the speakers behind the screen I dont think I need an SMX.
I figure screen throw distance to roughly 13 feet give or take. and then screen size to be like 110" wide, although that may be too much for my distance, where I have to cut back to 96" wide I think...
So this is my starting point, where I actually have rough plans made up, now, going forward I have to think about actual screen size to avoid screen door effect, acoustic treatments if needed, where the best spot for the rear speakers is, and what can be done with the stairs and their possible presence in the room. So feel free, ask away, any questions you may have, criticize if you would like, or even suggest things that could possibly be better in improving my design. I am open to everything people have to say. Thanks in advance.