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Closed on a new house last week and am mostly unpacked, now down to the real priorities. The theater. This will be my 2nd build. I lived in my last home for 11 years and had the dedicated theater for nearly the entire 11 years, so I feel like I know what is important to me and my family through some experience. The new house is on a street with "Laurel" in the name and I know theater names are very important, so, my non-creative self came up with Rest on your Laurels Theater. I certainly plan to do a lot of future resting in this theater.
The new house had a movie theater built by the previous owner, under the great room, and is a nice sized room. The layout has a few challenges with some angled walls up front. The basement was dugout for higher than typical ceilings and the existing finished drywall is about 8' 9" in the room, except for the soffits which are 12" shorter.
Layout of existing room:
Personally, I have a few other problems with this layout in addition to the angled walls. We use our theater to watch sports, netflix shows, play lots of video games, in addition to movies. That means I'm set on a 16:9 ratio. I also care about lumens to a degree that it can help HDR (which I know is somewhat of a mess with projectors). This room as is, would need something like a 160" screen and there'd still be tons of wasted space on the sides. I don't need a 160" screen that I sit 13 feet away from, if I have a 130" screen that I sit 10.5 feet away from. So, in response to that I am thinking of the following general changes:
The core changes being a new "entry hallway" to the room and the false wall. These changes offer a few benefits. It cuts down on the width of the room, so there isn't tons of wasted open space while also offering a cool space for things like movie posters (maybe a digital poster) since I never actually want these sort of things in the room itself. The false wall then gives me space to go acoustic transparent screen. The downside is the additional construction cost of the entry wall, and obviously the smaller room.
Closed on a new house last week and am mostly unpacked, now down to the real priorities. The theater. This will be my 2nd build. I lived in my last home for 11 years and had the dedicated theater for nearly the entire 11 years, so I feel like I know what is important to me and my family through some experience. The new house is on a street with "Laurel" in the name and I know theater names are very important, so, my non-creative self came up with Rest on your Laurels Theater. I certainly plan to do a lot of future resting in this theater.
The new house had a movie theater built by the previous owner, under the great room, and is a nice sized room. The layout has a few challenges with some angled walls up front. The basement was dugout for higher than typical ceilings and the existing finished drywall is about 8' 9" in the room, except for the soffits which are 12" shorter.
Layout of existing room:
Personally, I have a few other problems with this layout in addition to the angled walls. We use our theater to watch sports, netflix shows, play lots of video games, in addition to movies. That means I'm set on a 16:9 ratio. I also care about lumens to a degree that it can help HDR (which I know is somewhat of a mess with projectors). This room as is, would need something like a 160" screen and there'd still be tons of wasted space on the sides. I don't need a 160" screen that I sit 13 feet away from, if I have a 130" screen that I sit 10.5 feet away from. So, in response to that I am thinking of the following general changes:
The core changes being a new "entry hallway" to the room and the false wall. These changes offer a few benefits. It cuts down on the width of the room, so there isn't tons of wasted open space while also offering a cool space for things like movie posters (maybe a digital poster) since I never actually want these sort of things in the room itself. The false wall then gives me space to go acoustic transparent screen. The downside is the additional construction cost of the entry wall, and obviously the smaller room.
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