Welcome to my Home Theater

This is just a little page I'm putting together as my construction progresses.

This is how things looked before I started tearing them down

Looking towards the back wall and into the kitchen

Back wall, the other side, I'll be removing the door

More of the back side

Okay, tearing sheetrock off the front left corner

Front right corner

Half of the wall is up

The other half

Most of the framing

This is where most of my gear is going

Backside of the equipment rack

More backside

Look ma, no ceiling. I didn't want to rip it down but I needed to for my new lights and it will make running the cable much easier plus new construction lights are a lot cheaper.

TV Stand. This is where the TV will sit, it will be boxed in on all sides with particle board.

I did a pretty good job when the house was built running a bunch of my wires. Now I get to run some more.

If you look closely at the above pictures, you can see I made some changes. I now have a doorway to get back behind my false wall. Much easier than stepping over the wall.

The TV stand has changed too. It has moved up a few inches and I've framed out a space for a center channel under the tv.

Here is the projector mounting location, framed the box, you can see the cables.

Dad's little helper, wonder if I can get him to help with the sheetrock?

Here is a picture of the back wall. It's open into the kitchen it's going to make a great family room, but may not do so hot as a theater, but I'm working on ideas to cut out the light and sound leakage. Wired for 7.1 with 12g HD wire.

Media Panel, the heart and soul off my network, video distribution, and IR Control man was that a ton of wires to run and label. I may put another panel beside it but for now I should have enough room in the panel once I relocate the modem.

Looking at the AV rack, that bundle of cables is what I ran just to the rack.

Again the wall, pretty much the same except I got wires now.

Well ceiling is done, you can see the lights, I really like the way they turned out you can also see the front wall and were we stepped on the sheetrock, doh. But it worked out in the long run

Back wall, hey wait a minute there used to be a hole here, where did it go? I feel like I'm going backwards

Front wall all cutout. You can see the spot on the right for the rack and the left for the hidden door, spot for TV, and center just now, I realize that the center is probably going to sound better in the top, so I'm going to mock up the speakers and see how it sounds.

Back wall, ah the hole is back, not much for acoustics but it really makes the room more liveable.

Well I’m got my previous home made screen up to see how things are going to look. 45x80. I think I’m gonna hook up some stuff and play around with speaker locations and such before I go to much farther. Overall with the screen and lights in, I’m very please it was soooooo nice to see progress and see things being built instead of torn apart

Ah, another hole in the wall and the just keep getting bigger and bigger so as you can see the center is now above the screen. Here is a pic without the screen.

And one with the screen up.

Okay making more progress. I have started working on the AV rack and the TV stand location, so far so good, although working with a router is interesting if you haven't used one. Still have a bit more to go before I start mudding.

I've started on the bookcase/hidden door. Here it is in place and it is swinging back and forth. From a distance it looks pretty good. I still need to drill the holes for the shelf supports but I think it will work for me.

I've taken a closer pick and tacked up a piece of trim to see how well it will be hidden. I think it will hide nicely.

This is after the second layer of mud, looking from the kitchen into the family room/theater. It should look nice when done, very open, great for family room not so great for a theater.

Looking at the front wall, rounded corners for tv area, basic stuff. After mudding so far. I'm half and half on if I'd do it again. Any bigger of a room and I'm hiring it out.

Looking at back wall into kitchen.

Front wall after final coat. Next step is sanding and primer

Ceiling

Back wall

Woohoo, we have primer on the walls. It really makes a big improvement over the bare sheetrock and mud. Front wall

Side wall. I can still see a few places that may need some extra sanding or mud

Back wall into the kitchen

Other side wall towards bathroom and garage

Temporary screen up checking size and projector location

Projector up, it's too low, it's like an inch over my head when I stand

Temporary ceiling mount. It's gonna need some work too.

Attempt to take a pic of the texture on the walls

This is where the texture on the wall blends with the other room.

Paint

More Paint

Paint and a wall with no paint

View from kitchen

Opening in the wall

AV Rack

Bookcase/hidden door on the other side

Trim going up, this is the opening between the family/theater room and kitchen

Looking at the front wall, the center section is for a regular direct view TV

My ceiling mount. I think I'm going to paint it green to match the ceiling. I just wish the pipe was more perpendicular I'm going to try a new tube and see if that helps

It's almost like opening gifts at Christmas. DaLite Model C HCMW 80x45

Showing the mounting for the screen and the soffit

Closer look at screen mount. 2x4 with drywall screws into the wall and a lag bolt

Screen is hung.

Screen down

Front of the room, ready for carpet

Back of the room

We have carpet, wow it is night and day the difference carpet makes. It feels like a room now. No furniture yet as I need to get some more stuff done before the furniture is in or it will never get done.

Towards back

Starting to put the rack in, it was just a shelf, decided at last minute on a rack so a framed it out with 1x3's and will eventually be securing it with screws.

Detail of rack area. I narrowed the opening with 1x3s screwed into the side. The rack is screwed into these.

Top half of a bare rack

Bottom

Soffit covering the screen is up. It hides the screen case really well. I hope I don't want to change screens anytime soon.

Opening in the bottom of the soffit for the screen.

Soffit primed and textured. I'm glad its not going to be white

Soffit painted, I still have to paint in where the screen rolls up but I need a smaller brush to do that.But its looking a lot more like a room as I'm moving more stuff in.

Picture of rack mostly full. One of the bigger holes is for my htpc. Still deciding if I should put it in or go a different route.

All the little things.