Browse Forums Lighting + Lighting Design 1 Dec 23, 2010 2:47 pm I'm trying to do up our electrical plans and looking at options for the home theatre room lighting. We're going to set this room up as a theatre room, it's not for any other purpose and I'm unsure of which way to go with lighting. The room is square approx 4600 x 4600 in size. I was thinking some uplights on the wall behind the lounge that could be dimmed when watching tv, there will also be a ceiling fan in the middle of the room, the wall on the left of the lounge has 2 x cavity sliders and the wall on the right of the lounge has a large window, but that entire wall will be a heavy curtain (floor to ceiling). At this stage the ceilings have cornices, but I'm going to talk to the tradies and see if I can pay them direct to do square set instead. So what sort of lighting has everyone else used? Is it just downlights? Love to see what everyone else has done ... anyone want to share a picture? ~ trying to build our dream home by the sea ~ Re: Home Theatre lighting ... anyone want to share? 3Dec 24, 2010 4:48 pm hi - I am doing wall lights, just 2 and then 9 LED lights. They are teeny tiny. try some display home websites and look for photos of theatres - thats what I did. Hope this helps - Building with Life$tyle Homes in Perth SOR Key Dates on First Page of my Thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=38761 Re: Home Theatre lighting ... anyone want to share? 4Dec 24, 2010 5:06 pm Thanks Sheznay. There are only two display homes locally that have a home theatre room and they both have a bulkhead (think that is what it's called - it's like a platform around the edge of the wall about 10cm from the ceiling) around the top of the wall with uplights in them. Love look but ended up costing too much to add in ~ trying to build our dream home by the sea ~ Re: Home Theatre lighting ... anyone want to share? 5Dec 25, 2010 5:22 pm Here are links to my theater electrical plans - might help give you a few ideas http://cid-db37c13632f40921.office.live ... trical.pdf my house blog: http://sugarloafdrivebuild.blogspot.com/ Re: Home Theatre lighting ... anyone want to share? 6Dec 25, 2010 8:37 pm dsiroky Here are links to my theater electrical plans - might help give you a few ideas http://cid-db37c13632f40921.office.live ... trical.pdf Thank you very much! ~ trying to build our dream home by the sea ~ Re: Home Theatre lighting ... anyone want to share? 7Jan 17, 2011 1:53 pm RaryGirl, let us know what you decide in the end Re: Home Theatre lighting ... anyone want to share? 8Jan 17, 2011 4:28 pm blueblueblue we're still trying to decide A decision will have to be made in the next few weeks, so I've told hubby he better hurry up and get his butt into gear and make a decision. ~ trying to build our dream home by the sea ~ Re: Home Theatre lighting ... anyone want to share? 10Feb 07, 2011 4:34 pm Nothing very exciting I'm afraid ... we're going with dimmable cfc downlights and then some up/down wall lights on the back wall behind the lounge, again dimamable so we can have some soft lighting behind us when watching movies. ~ trying to build our dream home by the sea ~ Re: Home Theatre lighting ... anyone want to share? 11Feb 15, 2011 10:07 pm There were 5 aspects to the wiring of my theatre room I had to consider; 1) lighting 2) data cabling 3) speaker wiring 4) HDMI cabling 5) power supply For the lighting I opted to just have a provision for downlights left in the ceiling, as well as the standard 2 x baton fix lights (aligned across the room, rather than down the middle of the room to allow for my DLP). I will be putting in 6 x downlights, removing the 2 baton fix lights, and putting in two lamps that I found that look like old movie prop staging lights with the little adjustable flaps - I'll be hooking them up to a dimmer switch for 'mood' lighting. Almost all the Home Theatre componentry these days have network cable hookup; TVs, blurays, recorders/tuners, amplifiers/receivers, projectors, so I ensured that I have enough CAT5/6 cabling installed for all current and future components. For example, I ran a CAT5 cable to behind where my projector screen will be, just in case I ever decide to put a Plasma/LCD on the wall behind it. Similarly, with my speaker wiring, even though I currently only have a 5.1 amplifier, I ran speaker wires for a 7.2 system, for if/when I get a new receiver. Think carefully about what heights you want your speakers (and wiring plates) at, especially if you ever decide to buy new speakers. I currently have smaller 'bookshelf' type speakers, but placed the front speaker wall plates at ground level in case I ever get floorstanding speakers. Rear and surround plates are at ear level as I would only ever use 'bookshelf' wallmounted speakers. HDMI Cabling is also very important to consider - as mentioned a couple of points up, I don't currently have a flatscreen to mount on the wall behind my projector screen, but I ran a 5 metre HDMI just in case. I'd rather spend $80 now and not use it for a few years, rather than have to spend a lot of time and money running them through walls down the track. TIP: if you're going to run the HDMI cables yourself (or have a contractor do it) make sure you do it as close to gyprocking as possible, that way there is less time for them to go 'missing'. In regard to power supply,work out how many points you'll need at your 'componentry' area (dvd player, vcr, bluray, set top box, amplifier, xbox, ps3, router, etc) and double it! better to be safe than sorry. I've gone for an 'awesome foursome' wall plate, as well as having my 'surge protector' 6 plug powerboard. I've also allowed for two low mounted double power points at the rear to accommodate powered subwoofers, with the 'double' powerpoint being for anything else I might need/want such as lamps etc. I made sure not to have them mounted too low, as I am having a 300mm raised platform at the rear of the room for the back row of seats. I also included a power point provision in the roof to power my ceiling mounted DLP, as well as a double point behind my projector screen for the future possibility of a Plasma/LCD. I also have a double point at the front on the side wall for general use, such as vaccuuming etc. As a bonus tip, go spend $20 at your local hardware store and get some 190x40 timber cut to size to use as mounting points for any location where you might ever consider wanting to put a plasma/lcd in the future. I've done this at 5 different points at my place that is currently under construction, as well as an extra one in the laundry for the dryer mount... <EDIT> sorry, got kinda carried away and off topic.... to answer the actual question very simply, I bought a lamp from Target of all places about 4 years ago that has 3 old movie themed spotlights with the 'barn door' flaps on them that I'm going to modify and use as roof mounted lights... should look pretty cool traditional gable roof facade - Have you did the dark and light gray color combination in facade with gray stone in facade… 0 4211 I would be wary. Is you site demilished but nothing else done? 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