Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation 1 Jun 07, 2007 9:37 pm I've got a 5.2 x 4.4m room in my plans for HT.
At the moment I am intending to put the TV on the longer wall, so that we sit approx 4.4m from the TV. ie the lounges along the longer wall. This comes partly from my measurements of the lounge and 2 recliners we currently have, and the fact that it can be good having a bit of width when playing multiplayer Nintendo Wii. I had a thought last night though that maybe it's better to be sitting further back than I plan, and so I should change the orientation and maybe go for 2 rows of seating with a false floor (we'll have 8'6" ceilings). The TV that goes in there will initially be a 40" LCD, but I am planning on putting in some conduit for potential future projector install. What do you guys reckon? Oh, the only windows in the room will be on the 4.4m wall, so at your side in my first scenario and behind in the second. My blog link shows and approximate of the plan I'm referring to... the one posted as option 2. Re: Room orientation 2Jun 07, 2007 10:43 pm parker,
I'm also designing my own house and the HT is planned to be 6 m x 4 m (to centre of walls). I will positioning the lounges along the 4 m wall so that there is almost 6 m to the screeen. As you've said, this allows another row of seating. My planned layout is as follows: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ There are couple of things I like about it: 1) It doubles as a formal lounge area 2) If needed, the four lounge chairs can be repositoned to form a second row (the lounges are on a 0.25 high raised floor) 3) The screen comes up over the window. When used as a formal lounge the screen is down and you can look out the window. When used as a theatre, the screen covers the window thereby simultaneously putting up the screen and darkening the room. I'll probably put up a high slim window above the lounge. The doors to the left open up to the main living area (kitchen/lounge/dining). Wil probably use two bifolds rather than two sliding doors. The door to the right opens up to a study. Something to consider in your case if you put the lounge under the windows is how high are the windows off the floor. Also, if you put in a raise floor will the lounge now be higher than the bottom of the window. In summary, I'd put the lounge on a raised floor up against the window or the oppoite wall if the windows is too low (which means moving the door into your HT). Cheers, Casa [Edited: For a larger image http://www.mypicshare.com/cfasjgeapic.html ] Re: Room orientation 3Jun 08, 2007 2:29 pm Hi Parker.
If you want to run a projector and screen you'd be better off sitting at the longer distance, otherwise you'll be restricted to a maximum screen size of about 90-100". 5.2m x 4.4m is a pretty good size for a modest domestic home theatre - 5.2m is just enough length to give you the option of anything up to a 120" screen and still squeeze in the throw distance of a 1080p DLP projector (which usually require more distance than their LCD counterparts to fill the same size screen) - the BenQ W10000 needs 4.8m from the lens to project a 120" image, and it's about 400mm deep! At a seating distance of 5m a 120" screen will really give you that big movie theatre screen feeling. Having 4.4m of width is also very cool, as even with a 120" screen you still get about 800-900mm either side to park your front speakers (they won't crowd the screen). Re: Room orientation 4Jun 08, 2007 2:31 pm Hey Parker.
What type of screen are you running that comes up out of the floor (or from somewhere near it)? Re: Room orientation 5Jun 08, 2007 3:51 pm Don't mind that sort of approach at all, thanks.
Please see my updated blog for my proposed changes. More specifically, how deep should that raised floor be? 1.5m seemed right by my measuring, but have other people got other ideas? Re: Room orientation 6Jun 08, 2007 3:53 pm Rodda Hey Parker. What type of screen are you running that comes up out of the floor (or from somewhere near it)? Dont know what you mean by that sorry. Re: Room orientation 7Jun 08, 2007 4:47 pm Casa2 3) The screen comes up over the window. When used as a formal lounge the screen is down and you can look out the window. When used as a theatre, the screen covers the window thereby simultaneously putting up the screen and darkening the room. [Edited: For a larger image http://www.mypicshare.com/cfasjgeapic.html ] This is what Rodda was referring to parker... Matt Re: Room orientation 8Jun 08, 2007 4:51 pm My raised floor section is 190mm high and is 4000 wide and 2000 deep.
The room is 7000 deep x 4000 wide with 8'6" ceilings! Parker, the depth of your raised floor section will need to determined by 1 thing. What is the depth of what you plan to put on it. if its just couches 1.5 will be fine. if its recliners then 1.5 should still be OK. if it couches with HIFI gear and subs and stuff then perhaps look at 2.0m Matt Re: Room orientation 9Jun 08, 2007 5:45 pm mattwalker Casa2 3) The screen comes up over the window. When used as a formal lounge the screen is down and you can look out the window. When used as a theatre, the screen covers the window thereby simultaneously putting up the screen and darkening the room. [Edited: For a larger image http://www.mypicshare.com/cfasjgeapic.html ] This is what Rodda was referring to parker... Matt Hey Rodda, You're getting me confused wih parker. I'm planing to have the projection screen come up from the floor. Would like a 100" screen therefore it would need to go below the floor line. The idea is when the screeen is up the window light is blocked - form following function. I haven't seen such a thing, but if they can move large screen TV's up from a wooden box, why not a rigid projection screen. What do you think and do you know anyone who might supply such a thing? Cheers, Casa Re: Room orientation 10Jun 08, 2007 6:25 pm Re: Room orientation 13Jun 08, 2007 7:22 pm mattwalker with 8'6" ceilings! mattwalker if its just couches 1.5 will be fine. if its recliners then 1.5 should still be OK. Sweet. Thanks for the reassurance. Re: Room orientation 14Jun 08, 2007 7:30 pm mattwalker My raised floor section is 190mm high and is 4000 wide and 2000 deep. The room is 7000 deep x 4000 wide with 8'6" ceilings! Parker, the depth of your raised floor section will need to determined by 1 thing. What is the depth of what you plan to put on it. if its just couches 1.5 will be fine. if its recliners then 1.5 should still be OK. if it couches with HIFI gear and subs and stuff then perhaps look at 2.0m Matt I can see how 1.5 m raised floor depth is right, but how does hifi gear and subs change things? Do they go behind the lounge? Also, what is the ideal raised floor height? Re: Room orientation 15Jun 08, 2007 9:12 pm parker mattwalker with 8'6" ceilings! mattwalker if its just couches 1.5 will be fine. if its recliners then 1.5 should still be OK. Sweet. Thanks for the reassurance. Havent built it yet parker (see blog) but based on 3d drawings I am sure it will be fine! Matt Re: Room orientation 16Jun 08, 2007 9:19 pm Casa2 mattwalker My raised floor section is 190mm high and is 4000 wide and 2000 deep. The room is 7000 deep x 4000 wide with 8'6" ceilings! Parker, the depth of your raised floor section will need to determined by 1 thing. What is the depth of what you plan to put on it. if its just couches 1.5 will be fine. if its recliners then 1.5 should still be OK. if it couches with HIFI gear and subs and stuff then perhaps look at 2.0m Matt I can see how 1.5 m raised floor depth is right, but how does hifi gear and subs change things? Do they go behind the lounge? Also, what is the ideal raised floor height? Casa, The depth in my room is 2 metres because all my hifi gear (dvd, amp, htpc etc.) will go in a cabinet behind me. I am having 6 electric recliners spaced evenly in a semi circle on each level. By doing this I am allowing a depth of 600 mm for a cabinet, with a reclined chari of 1250mm. This will leave a 100mm step at the font of the side chairs and a 500mm step at the centre chair. I prefer to have everything behind me and just the screen and speakers in my vision. Nothing worse in my opinion that lights glowing from Hifi gear to take away from the really dark scenes in movies. As for the step the maximum you are allowed is 200mm. Take away an allowance for carpet and you get the 190mm we have talked about here. This is if you want to stay within AS guidelines. Matt Re: Room orientation 17Jun 08, 2007 9:38 pm Matt,
The electric recliners sound very nice. Do you have a web address for them. Would like to check them out. With the equipment behind the recliner lounges, wouldn't access be difficult. Thanks for the 200 mm step limit. I'll reduce mine from 250 mm to 200 mm. I'm sure the standards people have thought it through Cheers, Casa Re: Room orientation 18Jun 08, 2007 10:08 pm Casa,
Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I will probably go for the $499 ones as I want 6 of them and the other is a bit OTT.... I have no need to access the dvd etc as I will have an inbuilt Infra red repeating system inside the cabinet: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ that allows me to change everything with out opening the door. I have all my DVD's and CD's stored on a media server and access them via a media player. (I don't have to get up to change DVD's for about 3 weeks before I run out!!) Matt Re: Room orientation 19Jun 09, 2007 12:58 am Re: Room orientation 20Jun 09, 2007 1:17 pm Matt,
Thanks for showing me your home theatre ideas. Very nice. I like the minimalistic front area. I'm envious. I use Punch Home Design software and could never get anywhere near as close to the quality of the My Virtual Home output (and your skills of course). Have you thought of changing the middle chairs to a double arrangment? You seem to have the space and that way you get an extra two seats and "couples" can be close to each other. May ask some more questios of you as I finalise my plans. Cheers, Casa 0 638 Hey, I am wanting to add a second toilet to my house, bit we have limited room. There is a hallway/entry that is never used, so was thinking this could be an option. Only… 0 4720 Hi all, My first post, we are building a house and can’t decide the layout of the lounge room. We have a large N/W facing window and are wanting to have a wood slow… 0 13737 |