Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater New Pictures of my HT/Recroom area. Finally!!!!

Sorry for my late arrival also, work has had me out of town for the past several days.

Wow, your HT room is extremely nice Randy! I really like the two tone on the walls and the built in bar area. That's a heck of a lot of room ... being from Florida where basements are non-existent I'm so jealous of you folks with your huge basements! Randy are those full exterior windows?

very cool Randy, I very much like what u have going, when I get back stateside I HOPE I can have my own theatre as well. great work man thx for sharing

Hey Randy,

Just looking back over your pics...do my eyes deceive me or is your projector off center from the screen? Is it just the photo? Also, I can't tell from the photo but do you have a frame around the screen?

Very nice room finish! Is your whole basement ceiling lined with acoustic insulation?

Yes Bruce, because of the way the rafters were positioned, I could not get it perfectly centered. It is not an issue though since the Sanyo's and a few other projectors have "Lens Shift" where you can adjust up/down or left/right to line up the image. This makes things so much easier. I'm still pretty close to the center of the optics so it works great. The only problem would be if the projector was clear to the side of the room and I had to really adjust the Lens Shift.

Since my back wall was painted Flat Black, I don't use a border. If there is any light spilling off the sides it gets soaked up by the black paint.

I did place insulation in the ceiling above the HT area, but not the entire basement. Not sure anything can stop the EP500 thumping.

Classic is right! My favorite part was Yemana having fun saying "Mushy mushy mushy".


Oh, and great photos!

Rich

You're HT is sofa king awesome. Very jealous. One day ...

Randy,

I see that the couch is on a sort of platform. That's what I'm planning on doing in the room I'm remodeling right now. Did you build it yourself? I'd like to know more about it!

Yep, I used 2 x 8's for the main pieces and corner angle braces, and some 2 x 4's for some additional cross member strength. I then put a piece of plywood across the top. There was enough padding and carpet to cover it after the basement was done. It is very heavy. It is exactly 4' x 8' in size, so the plywood fit perfect on top...

I did find out that I had to raise my screen up about 6" so the people's heads in the front row didn't interfere with the back row viewers.

Here is a great calculator to figure out your riser height...

http://www.cinegi.com/cgi-bin/riser.cgi

Thanks! That tool will help a lot.
Also I remember you saying that you got your screen fabric from Dazian (right?) did you get the fabric for projector screen?

My material was Dazian Matte White PVC non-perf Cinema material. It can be found on ebay if you do a search for "matte white cinema projection" or at Dazian's website.

http://dazian.com/html/projection_screens.html

Actually there are lots of DIY methods if you want to save a buck, I think my screen cost me a total of about a $100 with all the materials for the frame and Dazian material.