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I thought it was about time I started a build thread. People have helped me a great deal here which I really appreciate! Hopefully some might find parts of the thread useful.
My fiance and I are currently in the middle of renovating our house. My dad is a builder by trade so for the past 2 years he and I have been working weekends on the renos. It has been a fairly huge undertaking, we've changed/added rooms in all 4 directions and have basically gutted the house and started again.
The best part about the renovation is that we have built a room that is going to become our HT. There is still a bit to do on the house, but we are getting very close to being able to get stuck into building the HT.
The dimensions of the room are as follows:
width: 4800
length: 6000
Height: 3000
The room is maybe a fraction wider than I would have liked, but it could be converted into a rumpus/lounge room if we ever look to sell the house. The existing house is roughly 600mm off the ground so the ceilings of the existing house and theatre are at the same height, but the floor of the theatre is lower to get the extra height.
The room itself has been built for a while. It has just been used to store from various rooms while they get redone. I had to promise it would be the last room done because my fiance knew nothing else would get completed.
Frames up!
Trusses on
Sarcing and 1/2 the floor down
Windows, I'll be plugging these up
Brick work done
I haven't done too much with sound isolation other than insulating all the walls and using the thicker firecheck gyprock. I would have loved to do a double layer of gyprock with green glue in between, but it was going to cost a bit too much
I installed conduit and pre-wired for a 7.1 setup (I only have a 5.1 setup at the moment) before putting up the gyprock.
batons on ceiling and power cables!
Conduit and insulation
The plan at the moment is for 6 seats, two rows of three recliners. The riser at back of the room continues on from the floor in the existing house. so is quite high (stadium seating
and there will be two steps down on each side of the front row. The front row will probably be around 3.3m from the screen, with the back row 4.6m. I'm planning on sitting in the front row the majority of the time.
Riser construction
Filled with insulation
Stage construction
At this stage i'm looking into a cinemascope screen from ozts, I think 130" - 140". I haven't made my mind up if i'll get the acoustically transparent screen yet or not. I'm waiting for Richard to send me a couple samples to see which gets the nod. I plan on building a screen wall about 600mm off the room wall so I can put my sub, centre and mains behind and out of sight. The screen wall will be covered in black GOM so that if I don't go with the AT screen I can position the centre just underneath pointing at the main listening position.
Screen wall
I've based my speaker positions on the Dolby recommendations of 22-30 degress for the left and right. 90-110 degrees for the surrounds and 135-150 for the rear surrounds. Do people bring them in closer when they user a transparent screen?
Speaker position
I really like the way sandman did his ceiling and soffits on the AVS forum, so i'm borrowing
his ideas for my theatre. Around the side and rear the width will be 400mm with a 150mm light tray attached. On the front the soffit will be wider so I can install some downlights that will wash the screen. Like sandmans, the visible part of the light tray will either be wood or a veneer just to add some interest. I'm also planning on installing a rope light or LED strip in the light tray.
Sandman Ceiling/Soffit
I'll be installing a fibre optic star ceiling from starceiling-designer.com. I have a star map of the southern sky which I plan to replicate on the ceiling. I've worked out there will be around 16 1m2 panels with a total of nearly 800 stars ohmy.gif (1.5kms of optic fiber LOL). Having panels attached to the ceiling will also allow me to treat the first reflection points on the ceiling at the same time.
Building this might take me a while
For the walls I plan on treating them with insulation and then covering them with fabric panels. There are going to be 6 columns in the room, 2 on each side and two on the rear wall. I'll put the surround speakers in the 4 columns near the back of the room. I was thinking about turning the two columns that don't have speakers into DVD/Blu-Ray holders, but I might be making things a bit complicated
My colour scheme is going to be burgundy and black, with a wood trim that will match the light tray. I'm not sure which wood, but had thought of purple heart or maybe black sassafras. I may end up with something a little more mainstream though
Colour scheme
The theatre shares a wall with my office so I have built an equipment closet that can be accessed from the office. Unfortunately I built it a fraction to thin to stick a 19" rack into, so it'll be a custom solution. I might just try and get some rack rails and attach them to the wall, otherwise it'll just be custom shelves.
Framing the equiptment closet
Equiptment access
What's behind door number 2?
From in the theatre
Speaker cable
Power points in closet, I have another quad at the bottom
At the moment I have undercoated the ceiling and the walls. For no other reason than to stop myself brushing against the plaster every time I go in there
Undercoat
If you have made this far you've done well. I'm sure there is other stuff I should have mentioned
Next step for me will be starting to frame up the soffits, but it'll probably be a couple weeks before I can start that because I have some painting to do :gulp:
Cheers,
Simon
UPDATE:
Just wanted to link to a few photos of the finished room :T
First glimpse
Screen wall
Seats
Showtime!
My fiance and I are currently in the middle of renovating our house. My dad is a builder by trade so for the past 2 years he and I have been working weekends on the renos. It has been a fairly huge undertaking, we've changed/added rooms in all 4 directions and have basically gutted the house and started again.
The best part about the renovation is that we have built a room that is going to become our HT. There is still a bit to do on the house, but we are getting very close to being able to get stuck into building the HT.
The dimensions of the room are as follows:
width: 4800
length: 6000
Height: 3000
The room is maybe a fraction wider than I would have liked, but it could be converted into a rumpus/lounge room if we ever look to sell the house. The existing house is roughly 600mm off the ground so the ceilings of the existing house and theatre are at the same height, but the floor of the theatre is lower to get the extra height.
The room itself has been built for a while. It has just been used to store from various rooms while they get redone. I had to promise it would be the last room done because my fiance knew nothing else would get completed.
Frames up!
Trusses on
Sarcing and 1/2 the floor down
Windows, I'll be plugging these up
Brick work done
I haven't done too much with sound isolation other than insulating all the walls and using the thicker firecheck gyprock. I would have loved to do a double layer of gyprock with green glue in between, but it was going to cost a bit too much
I installed conduit and pre-wired for a 7.1 setup (I only have a 5.1 setup at the moment) before putting up the gyprock.
batons on ceiling and power cables!
Conduit and insulation
The plan at the moment is for 6 seats, two rows of three recliners. The riser at back of the room continues on from the floor in the existing house. so is quite high (stadium seating
Riser construction
Filled with insulation
Stage construction
At this stage i'm looking into a cinemascope screen from ozts, I think 130" - 140". I haven't made my mind up if i'll get the acoustically transparent screen yet or not. I'm waiting for Richard to send me a couple samples to see which gets the nod. I plan on building a screen wall about 600mm off the room wall so I can put my sub, centre and mains behind and out of sight. The screen wall will be covered in black GOM so that if I don't go with the AT screen I can position the centre just underneath pointing at the main listening position.
Screen wall
I've based my speaker positions on the Dolby recommendations of 22-30 degress for the left and right. 90-110 degrees for the surrounds and 135-150 for the rear surrounds. Do people bring them in closer when they user a transparent screen?
Speaker position
I really like the way sandman did his ceiling and soffits on the AVS forum, so i'm borrowing
Sandman Ceiling/Soffit
I'll be installing a fibre optic star ceiling from starceiling-designer.com. I have a star map of the southern sky which I plan to replicate on the ceiling. I've worked out there will be around 16 1m2 panels with a total of nearly 800 stars ohmy.gif (1.5kms of optic fiber LOL). Having panels attached to the ceiling will also allow me to treat the first reflection points on the ceiling at the same time.
Building this might take me a while
For the walls I plan on treating them with insulation and then covering them with fabric panels. There are going to be 6 columns in the room, 2 on each side and two on the rear wall. I'll put the surround speakers in the 4 columns near the back of the room. I was thinking about turning the two columns that don't have speakers into DVD/Blu-Ray holders, but I might be making things a bit complicated
My colour scheme is going to be burgundy and black, with a wood trim that will match the light tray. I'm not sure which wood, but had thought of purple heart or maybe black sassafras. I may end up with something a little more mainstream though
Colour scheme
The theatre shares a wall with my office so I have built an equipment closet that can be accessed from the office. Unfortunately I built it a fraction to thin to stick a 19" rack into, so it'll be a custom solution. I might just try and get some rack rails and attach them to the wall, otherwise it'll just be custom shelves.
Framing the equiptment closet
Equiptment access
What's behind door number 2?
From in the theatre
Speaker cable
Power points in closet, I have another quad at the bottom
At the moment I have undercoated the ceiling and the walls. For no other reason than to stop myself brushing against the plaster every time I go in there
Undercoat
If you have made this far you've done well. I'm sure there is other stuff I should have mentioned
Next step for me will be starting to frame up the soffits, but it'll probably be a couple weeks before I can start that because I have some painting to do :gulp:
Cheers,
Simon
UPDATE:
Just wanted to link to a few photos of the finished room :T
First glimpse
Screen wall
Seats
Showtime!