Thanks Alan. I've seen a lot of these type of false walls around the internet while searching over the past few weeks for design ideas, but I wanted to do a sanity check here first.
I was thinking about minimalistic framing with no framing directly in front of the speakers at all. The area behind will be about 13 feet x 8 feet by 2 feet deep.
Here is a design idea that I had seen elsewhere...
Basic framing (no wood in front of speaker areas for my design though)
Panels with no framing material in front of speakers.
Finished, clean front wall. My needs are different in that I want to be able to accommodate a larger screen.
