Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation 1 Apr 03, 2008 10:26 pm Hello all,
Would like your help to set my home theatre room. 1. Keep the room the way it is on the plan? - multipurpose room a) If kept as per plan do you think two 2 sliding doors to close of the room off are OK to close off the room when watching movies? b) What's the best way to have TV and Screen in the one room. or 2. Reorganise the plan so that I have a separate family room and dedicated home theatre. I would love to be able to play with the Virtual home software but am so tech challenged. Your ideas will be most welcome. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Thanks Raz If you think you can, you can. Re: Planning my home theatre room 2Apr 06, 2008 10:06 am Hi Raz. Sorry for the delay in replying to your query, Matt and I have just come back from a 2-day trip to Ballarat to do an install for another forum member .
Your room sounds very, very similar to my own. My theatre, which doubles as our everyday lounge/TV room, is 4.7 x 5.8 (wherer yours is 4.2 x 6.0). I have double sliding doors exactly where yours are, and they are certainly effective enough. The only real difference would be that I have a big 700mm deep alcove in the front of mine that houses the rather large rear projection TV I have in there (everyday TV...). When I want to use my projector I have a 115" motorised screen that rolls down in front of the TV. There isn't much wrong with the movie experience in my room when in theatre mode... So, no need to change your plan if you don't want to. You can put a plasma/LCD on the wall for regular TV viewing and have a motorised screen come down in front of it for the 'big movie experience'. We've done many installs like this, and recommend this type of setup for a multi-purpose room. Don't skimp on the sound system. A good sound system with as much impact as the picture IS as important as that picture... Some more food for thought: When we first moved in here over three years ago my kids were quite young (as were their friends, etc.), so I decided to go with in-wall speakers to keep them and the kids apart. I even recessed my equipment into a cabinet in the wall (the alcove allowed my to do that pretty easily) to keep it out of the way (and partially hidden to improve the movie experience). If you want to have a look at my setup check out the gallery at our web site: www.avdreams.com.au Mine is the first one in the Gallery (it very much needs to be updated...). In the shot where you can see the seats and projector, you can just see the sliding door on the right. Put some thought into it, and you can make a great room here. My own serves both purposes brilliantly (if I do say so myself ). P.S. Carpet and curtains in this room will go a LONG WAY to helping the sound system be as good as it can be! Re: Planning my home theatre room 3Apr 06, 2008 9:09 pm Hi Rod,
Thank you very much for your detailed reply. Hope your trip to Ballarat was succesfull. I had a look your alcove looks great. Even the other theatre room on your website has an alcove. However I am probably not going to have one in... I have already made a lot of changes and am not sure if any more changes are going to be welcome. So as long as the screen comes in front of the TV all should be well. Will make sure that the sound system is good too. Need to learn more about all of this. I saw a couple of display homes where they had black thick curtains to block out the light. - v effective. Thank you once again Raz If you think you can, you can. Re: Planning my home theatre room 4Apr 07, 2008 8:26 am Thanks Raz.
Don't get get me wrong, I'm not suggesting that an alcove is necessary at all (in fact they can add some complications, depending on what you're trying to do). When I saw my display home, before we decided that was the house we wanted built, it already had the alcove there (in what was displayed as the billiard room - all I saw was theatre!) and I saw it as the perfect place for my rear projection TV. Many parts of my design sort of fell into place after that (the original alcove was 600mm deep but I had them extend it to 700mm so I could squeeze my screen in there and still get it down in front of my 560mm deep TV - just!). However, these days it's all about flat panel TVs, which makes things a lot simpler if you want to have a TV and a big pvc screen in front of it. A plasma or LCD TV mounted on the wall will protrude less than 100mm these days, so to hang a screen from the ceiling and have it roll down in front of the TV means it isn't much further off the wall than if you didn't have to accomodate the TV at all. See here, we have a 46" LCD TV mounted on the wall (in this first picture the actual TV has been taken down while we were hanging and testing the screen) with a 120" motorised screen coming down in front of it): Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ (in the shot below you can see how close the screen is to the TV and both are to the wall): Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Easy, effective, and in our opinion probably the best setup for a dual-purpose room... Give Jonathan a call. Tell him you know me. He is in my opinion the best surveyor I have ever worked with. His number is 0425 285 622 All the best Simeon 3 12372 I am not based in Victoria however i had a quick look into your question to understand what you were asking. The way I read the regulations, overshadowing relates to the… 1 2218 "is it exempt or do I need to get permission from council" Call your Council and ask them 1 1537 |