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3-25-2012
Me on your left and Pat Simpson on your right. Pat is the one that came up
with the idea to eliminate the speaker stands and make the new mounts making it
possible to do the new curtain.
3-24-2012 I didn't like the way the curtain around the center speaker turned out, it looked stupid. I have thus redone it. I eliminated the three speaker stands the center was sitting on and mounted a support frame to the columns that support the screen. This made it easier to deal with. The grill cloth stretched over the center speaker is very thin and you can pretty much see right through it so I may redo that later with something else.
3-20-2012
I finally have a black curtain around the center speaker. I also have the acoustic absorption panels on the side walls complete with LED lights behind them. I tried to get a few shots capturing how the LED's look in the dark but you really just have to see it, it's not an easy photo to get right. The acoustic panels are held on the wall with magnets so it's an easy matter to just pull them down if an LED ever needs to be replaced.
3/24/12 >
Earlier photos below...
The gray above the chair rail is very neutral and very flat. It's from Ralph Lauren and called, "River Rock". The texture helps it to diffract light and it's much less reflective than the original puke pink that was on the walls previously. The ceiling is flat black, not River Rock unfortunately but it's flat enough and there is very little reflection from the ceiling. The original gray ceiling reflected light all over the place. Below the chair rail I just put a very dark blue also very flat but again not River Rock. Still it has no reflection problems at all. This renovation has improved picture quality due to the significant reduction in tinted stray light. Click on the thumbnails below for larger images.
The old look.... Try not to puke!
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7/11/09: Especially now that the curtains are up I think the maroon paint is just the wrong shade. At least it looks a little more true to life in this photo because I set the white balance using the screen as the white reference. Anyway I never did like it from the start so I'm thinking I might take some of the curtain material to the paint store and get something to match. Btw, the curtains are made of football jersey material. It's very light and it's perforated so it's perfect for this. I have some black material on order that I will use to make a curtain to go over the screen and in front of the center speaker. Once that's done I still have a few acoustic panels to put on the walls and then just trimming out the equipment rack and this project will finally be done. I may also put another piece of the burgundy material against the wall to cover up that small gap you see on each side.
The Plan:
The room is 19' x 27' with a 10' ceiling. It is surrounded on three sides and on top by very large attic spaces making it easy for routing cables etc. The first seating row is raised 6" and each row after is raised 11". The seats are Berkline 13174 electric recliners from Ultimate Home Entertainment. If you are looking for theatre seats talk to Roman at Ultimate Home Entertainment, he will take care of you! These seats are amazingly comfortable!