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Well, since I took a 6-7 year break from the theater build, I thought I would start up a new thread since the original thread has long since been moved to the archives.
HISTORY: My Theater is approximately 12' 3" wide and 21' long, with a small room behind the theater for the A/V rack, closet and movie storage. I have 9' ceilings in my basement so I was lucky to have extra height. There are two permanent soffits on the long walls. The left on has the HVAC for the house and the wiring for the theater. The right one has 2 - 6" flex ducts that will be connected to an inline hydroponics fan for fresh air into the theater and for rack cooling.
The room is completely decoupled from the framing of the house with clips. Walls are a combination of stagger stud and wall inside of another wall. Can lights have boxes and all penetrations are wire only with the boxes cut down to 1" and mounted on top of the drywall. I used acoustic "tape" on the stud surfaces and double 1/2" drywall on every wall and the ceiling (clips and track on ceiling).
Wired for 7.1, sand filled stage, 14 1/2" riser planning for 2 rows of 3. I designed and built the columns to make use of a narrow encroachment into the width of the room and tapering out enough to hold my M & K SS-150THXs. I thought about not cutting the panels out in the front for columns since they won’t have speakers, but after I thought about it I thought it would look stupid not to match the columns.
The screen will be a Seymour AT DIY. 122" wide 2.37:1. If my IS300 gets here and gets installed I will get the screen built!
Anyway, just a little background and I guess a little showing off since my Mom volunteered to help upholster the wall panels over the last 2 days! I almost went through 10,000 staples and I haven't started the front wall frames. The lower is Chocolate GOM 702 and the upper portion is a fancy upholstery fabric I bought on eBay 8 years ago!
HISTORY: My Theater is approximately 12' 3" wide and 21' long, with a small room behind the theater for the A/V rack, closet and movie storage. I have 9' ceilings in my basement so I was lucky to have extra height. There are two permanent soffits on the long walls. The left on has the HVAC for the house and the wiring for the theater. The right one has 2 - 6" flex ducts that will be connected to an inline hydroponics fan for fresh air into the theater and for rack cooling.
The room is completely decoupled from the framing of the house with clips. Walls are a combination of stagger stud and wall inside of another wall. Can lights have boxes and all penetrations are wire only with the boxes cut down to 1" and mounted on top of the drywall. I used acoustic "tape" on the stud surfaces and double 1/2" drywall on every wall and the ceiling (clips and track on ceiling).
Wired for 7.1, sand filled stage, 14 1/2" riser planning for 2 rows of 3. I designed and built the columns to make use of a narrow encroachment into the width of the room and tapering out enough to hold my M & K SS-150THXs. I thought about not cutting the panels out in the front for columns since they won’t have speakers, but after I thought about it I thought it would look stupid not to match the columns.
The screen will be a Seymour AT DIY. 122" wide 2.37:1. If my IS300 gets here and gets installed I will get the screen built!
Anyway, just a little background and I guess a little showing off since my Mom volunteered to help upholster the wall panels over the last 2 days! I almost went through 10,000 staples and I haven't started the front wall frames. The lower is Chocolate GOM 702 and the upper portion is a fancy upholstery fabric I bought on eBay 8 years ago!

























