10 years ago when we built our new home, I made sure to create a place in the basement for a dedicated home theater. This included digging down an extra 2 feet: 9 foot ceilings for the most of the (walk-out) basement, but 11 feet deep concrete floor for the home theater area.
I also had the foresight back then to create a separate HVAC zone exclusively for the home theater area on one of the house's multiple geothermal heat pump units.
5 years ago I hired a contractor to build most of the home theater, including the stage, risers, double drywall with GG, columns, soffits, etc., using a DE design. I went so far as to carpet the theater and install everything EXCEPT fabric and acoustical treatments. I even bought all the necessary GOM fabric, polyester batting, Insulshield rigid fiberglass panels, Zero International door soundproofing hardware, etc. 5 years ago.
But... as you can imagine, once I made the "mistake" of putting up the projector (5 years ago), construction stopped dead in its tracks. The biggest issue was that I could never find anyone local who had experience installing fabric and acoustical materials.
Then a few months ago I happened to browse this forum, and discovered that Jeff Parkinson (BIGmouthinDC) lives all of 4 miles from me!
Thus Jeff and I started finishing what became the Swizzle Stick Theater. Where did that name come from? My wife and I had chosen the GOM "Swizzle Stick" pattern (which BIG would soon regret ;-) for the walls, in "Blue Moon" color. It's mostly gray with a hint of blue):
I also had the foresight back then to create a separate HVAC zone exclusively for the home theater area on one of the house's multiple geothermal heat pump units.
5 years ago I hired a contractor to build most of the home theater, including the stage, risers, double drywall with GG, columns, soffits, etc., using a DE design. I went so far as to carpet the theater and install everything EXCEPT fabric and acoustical treatments. I even bought all the necessary GOM fabric, polyester batting, Insulshield rigid fiberglass panels, Zero International door soundproofing hardware, etc. 5 years ago.
But... as you can imagine, once I made the "mistake" of putting up the projector (5 years ago), construction stopped dead in its tracks. The biggest issue was that I could never find anyone local who had experience installing fabric and acoustical materials.
Then a few months ago I happened to browse this forum, and discovered that Jeff Parkinson (BIGmouthinDC) lives all of 4 miles from me!
Thus Jeff and I started finishing what became the Swizzle Stick Theater. Where did that name come from? My wife and I had chosen the GOM "Swizzle Stick" pattern (which BIG would soon regret ;-) for the walls, in "Blue Moon" color. It's mostly gray with a hint of blue):