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Very nice, Mike! Mmmm...I can smell the cedar now! I need to stop looking at all you guys' beautiful theaters. It makes my too jealous!

Hey, that tile looks exactly like mine - Effesso Arena I think it's called

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How come the image doesn't show? If I cut and paste the URL it brings up the image.

I can't even make the picture show by cutting and pasting the URL into the browser address bar. Are you sure the picture is available to "everyone" and not just to a logged-in user (you) ?

Yea, won't let me in either. Looks like you need a password, or a secret handshake.

I bought the tile at Home Depot. Don’t recall what the name was. I liked the uneven edges, so I bought it. I’m sorta color blind so I have to ‘wing it’ when it comes to picking colors. Sometimes I get lucky and sometimes I not.

I broke in the sauna last night for the first time. I think I like saunas…… I’ll have to try it again tonight just to make sure. Is it against the rules to drink a cold beer when taking saunas?

I’ve decided to build the screen a standard 16.9 / 1 aspect ratio, 84” wide. I’ve been screwing around with zooming, shifting and screen height. There is no perfect screen size with all the different A/R sources and I just want to hit one damn button on the remote when I kick back and watch something. Until I can afford a good external video processor, a fancy stretch lens and 1080P projector, I’m sticking with what I have and black bars. Maybe by that time affordable 1080P projectors will have native 2.35 AR’s.

Off to build (paint) my screen……..

I thought those pictures were publicly accessible, I guess not. It's just a picture of a shower, I think you guys can live without seeing it. I don't have time to fix it right now.

Here’s a few more pictures. I finished the screen Saturday and have watched a couple movies on it. I tried some DIY screen paint mix that Randy turned me onto a few months ago. It’s called RS-maxsmudd and the guy who came up with it has an even better mix that he sells, which I didn't know until today. If I would have known that, I would have just bought it instead of screwing with mixing paint. I don’t really know what characteristics a good screen is supposed to have, so my opinion is pretty much worthless. But if you want it, I think it’s some great stuff and it really brings out colors and works well with or without light in room. The images are the best I’ve ever seen on a home theater system in person. But I have to admit that I haven’t seen very many so take that for what it's worth. So far three of my friends have been over and all of them want to know where I bought my speakers and if I’d make them a screen.

I figured out pretty quick that either my little Wagner sprayer is a piece of crap or I can’t spray paint, or a combination of both which I suspect is the case because there are some screw ups on the screen. In retrospect, I should have practiced spraying a little, but I was in a hurry so I just winged it. I still don’t know what to do next time, but I do know what not to do. So if you get the itch to try one of these DIY screens, drop me a line and I’ll tell you what not to do. Although I’m enjoying the heck of this system as is, I know that I just have to go the whole CIH thing, so I’ll be building a different screen in a few months after I can scrape up some more money for all the gizmo’s to make that work without too much fiddling.

Some screen shots….





I also tried my hand at making a velvet boarder and figured out that that isn’t all that easy either. Rapping velvet around a compound double mitered corner sucked. Then I had to figure out how to install it on the board, and I figured out how not to do that….



Her's the stairs / hallway to the basement.




Here’s a shot of the other spare bedroom. It has a full bath and cedar lined walk in closet. Tom, you’ll have to bring your sleeping bags, because I’ve got more electronic gadgets to buy before I buy furniture.



This is the kitchette I need to finish. The freezer is quite happy there for now.



Here’s the HT bathroom.




Here’s what I stared out with this last winter……




Now that the basement's about done, I reckon I ought to cut the grass....

Outstanding job Mdrew! It looks fabulous. I love the colors with the wood floor in your theater. I think your screen looks great, would never know it wasn't one of the comercially made screens. You can go into the business!

Congrats on a fantastic accomplishment.

That's wonderful, Mike! I think the screen looks great!

Beautiful room. Beautiful home. Take time to sit and enjoy it, eh?

And I figure one of those inflatable beds would fit as carry-on luggage, so I'm good there.

I painted a whole boatload of louvered doors with a Wagner once. I wasn't very good at it, but it was still better than using a brush. The instruction to "do 400 extremely light coats with low viscosity paint" just wasn't something I had the patience for. Looked like orange peel by the time I was done, but it was fresh, shiny, white orange peel.

I think I'm going to want to hear your story about what NOT to do.

That screen looks mighty fine to me. Congratulations !!