Tim, our intrepid web designer, is just back from a trek across America to represent Axiom and check out the Axiom installations in Country's Best Log Home Showhome 2006, a home built to be auctioned off to benefit the University of Wisconsin Children's Hospital.

Here are a few pics from the home.

I hope mdrew can enlighten us on what it would take to get those W3s in!!

I hope nobody else hears about this so I can win with a lowball bid!

Great pics and thanks for sharing !!

Very nice!

Beautiful home and very classy/tasteful use of the Axioms...

Neato. Gotta love dedicated HT rooms like that.

I really love that HT room, however, I think the screen should be a bit bigger, possibly a 2.35 ratio cinemascope screen. To me it looks to small for that space.

Lets get ready to rummmmmmmble....

That is a very nice looking H/T room.

Randy, I think you need some M80s to fit your huge screen .

Oh.

My.

Gosh.

I agree with Randy.

Nice house.

Ya got me again Wid.... One of these days you'll talk me into it, actually, it is my wife you need to talk to, ha ha.

I'm moving in tomorrow. Woof!

Piece of cake Amie. No turning back after you start if you have second thoughts though. Once the recessed area in the log is bored out and chiseled to accept the speaker, there will never be any way to make it look original again. Personally, I’d not do it that way. I’d have built a cabinet to house it or go with a book shelf and mount it to the log.

To do it though, you just trace the area you need removed on the log that the speaker needs to slide into, take a drill with an auger bit to the log and remove what you can with the bit, then with a real sharp chisel, take out the rest of the log. If you want to put one in vertically that would span more than one log, it gets complicated. As the log shrink (and they will), the hole needs to be big enough to keep from crushing the speaker so one has to get pretty creative with trim to trim out the oversized hole.

wow now I really like that. very nice. not to mention I'd always loved log homes so double the love.

Seeing those makes me wonder why I hadn't given any thought to using different color surrounds. DOH! Which leads me to question, is it within reason, that say someone has an all black setup and then they move to another home where the black just don't work so well for them. could the speakers be mailed back and refinished to a different color? (like the brown surrounds in the photos ) for a price of course.