Originally I was going to build just a 6 inch tall box to place 2nd row seating on in my home theatre for my riser, not attached to anything just a box in the middle of the room.
I have seen pictures and now in reading the new issue of home theatre builder that it’s a good idea to build the back of the room up for a riser and I do like that idea. My room is 18x12 with about a 7’ 3 ½†ceiling clearance once a ceiling would be installed.
The back two feet of the room there is a beam that lowers the ceiling to a clearance of about 6’ 6 3/4 “ once the ceiling is installed. The back wall also contains DVD storage cubby holes and the equipment rack.
If I stick with the original Riser plan of a box in the middle of the room there isn’t a problem as I can easily walk around the box to the back wall and people will only be seated while on the riser. I was going to have the riser about 3 feet off the back wall for walk around clearance so viewing distance would be approximately 9 feet in the front row and 14 feet in the back . The screen will be about 92 inches Diagonal. Not quite ideal distance but looks pretty good from tests.
If I build the back of the room up on a 6 inch riser I will only have about ¾ of an inch clearance when walking to the DVD storage or equipment. I honestly don’t see that being to big of a deal since it is not a walk way and I’d only be going there to find a DVD or change a setting on the equipment. My taller friends would have to duck a little to go back there. But the advantage is that I could see my self moving the platform and seating back 1 foot since I wont need walk around clearance to the back, making viewing distance 10 and about 15 feet respectively and from my tests was quite a bit better. There is also a drain in the back of the floor that I would have to cover up if I used the box, however if I built the riser as the whole back area I could leave the drain as is because I’ll be built right over it.
I really like the idea of the whole back built up for many reasons, the other idea I had was to build the riser only using 2x4 for a 4 inch riser but don’t know it that would be high enough. Suggestions and advice are very greatly appreciated.
You can get a general idea of the layout at http://www.pbase.com/pestario/home_theatre allot of pictures there.
I have seen pictures and now in reading the new issue of home theatre builder that it’s a good idea to build the back of the room up for a riser and I do like that idea. My room is 18x12 with about a 7’ 3 ½†ceiling clearance once a ceiling would be installed.
The back two feet of the room there is a beam that lowers the ceiling to a clearance of about 6’ 6 3/4 “ once the ceiling is installed. The back wall also contains DVD storage cubby holes and the equipment rack.
If I stick with the original Riser plan of a box in the middle of the room there isn’t a problem as I can easily walk around the box to the back wall and people will only be seated while on the riser. I was going to have the riser about 3 feet off the back wall for walk around clearance so viewing distance would be approximately 9 feet in the front row and 14 feet in the back . The screen will be about 92 inches Diagonal. Not quite ideal distance but looks pretty good from tests.
If I build the back of the room up on a 6 inch riser I will only have about ¾ of an inch clearance when walking to the DVD storage or equipment. I honestly don’t see that being to big of a deal since it is not a walk way and I’d only be going there to find a DVD or change a setting on the equipment. My taller friends would have to duck a little to go back there. But the advantage is that I could see my self moving the platform and seating back 1 foot since I wont need walk around clearance to the back, making viewing distance 10 and about 15 feet respectively and from my tests was quite a bit better. There is also a drain in the back of the floor that I would have to cover up if I used the box, however if I built the riser as the whole back area I could leave the drain as is because I’ll be built right over it.
I really like the idea of the whole back built up for many reasons, the other idea I had was to build the riser only using 2x4 for a 4 inch riser but don’t know it that would be high enough. Suggestions and advice are very greatly appreciated.
You can get a general idea of the layout at http://www.pbase.com/pestario/home_theatre allot of pictures there.