Home theater upgrades (aka lets see you married guys do this thread #2)
 

A few months ago i moved out of my old house, with a 16x18 foot basement room which was dedicated to a home theater in the house plans. After my dad passed passed I had to get serious about getting a new place, and was stuck with a complete higher end home theater. With a female boxer (a scary guard dog according to all but 1 rental agency in the town where i go to college) I wound up in a converted half of a garage. perfect 1 gear head 1 dog pad. However, the biggest room in the place is an 8x12' livingroom. For awhile i was using an avery file box on top of the entertainment center and a white blanket hung from the cieling with push pins. But last night I finally busted out $40 and here's what I came up with, I think its pretty effin sweet.
10 of the cheapest 2x4s from home deepthroat (went through and grabbed the straightest ones)
screws
skillsaw
2 drills
$15 in blackout fabric from the mall

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LOL, A for your effort !!! Don't pick on us married guy's though, we wouldn't have put the projector 6" from the bottom of the steps. Unless nobody ever comes to see you, not even the dog, where's the dog? :pca1:

Hey! I saw the guitar! the rooms a bit cramped. But hey, you have more going on, then I do! Our projector is pulling double duty. might have to buy a Large LCD screen, them bulbs are pricy! ours is over $500.00

The mount is close, but the pic makes it look closer than it is. The staircase is wide enough that I have a shoulder width space betweeen the handrail and the projector stand. Its a rental and there was just no way for me to mount it on the wall which would be ideal.


haha yeah guitar playing is my cheap hobby. The lamps aren't cheap, but the initial investment is lower vs buying a big LCD. I don't have cable and have a lamp budget instead. :tu:

I beleive i had the same kind of thread @ The Shelter... but i'll post here as i've got a new pic of my setup... and i'm in a relationship, have 1 daughter and another one on the way :) hehehehe

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I know this is labor intensive? Have you thought about finding a way to add (drill or paint) tiny holes? I mean real tiny. If you could find some perforated skin to put on a dark back ground. It will make the images sharper! It worked for us on our wall. All we did was strategically placed a screen over the wall with the holes on it, we then painted the screen so the paint went through to the wall. Discarded screen and we had an excellent invisible projection. When projector is off nobody knew it was there unless they really went looking for it.

interesting, i've never heard of that. :c:

my only upgrade to this until i get into my own place that I own is to get some winter mist mixed without the umber and a little extra black to get some more contrast. Its fine the way it is but you can't clean this fabric and its got some smudges from assembly.

totally not my fault that the smudges are there either, and you forgot to mention I helped, cause well I'm hardcore

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sweet, i'm hardcore, and it's a sweet setup by the way, Onkyo or whatever 7.1 surround and a sweet sony projector that projects an Image onto a screen, sounds pretty sweet in the small little roo