fastfwd Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 (edited) Hi all, Semi new to this forum, come in here from time to time for advice and research. I thought I would put up my theatre room build progress and you can critique, assist, give me ideas and help me along the way. I have had to repost this thread as the last one has expired before I could update it with some long overdue progress from along time ago. The room isn't a completely square room, access to the room comes from an angled corner in one of the main hallways in my house. I believe it was built in mind with the house to have it as a larger lounged TV room or formal dining but not a theatre. This is where I have come in to rebuild and make this idea possible. THE STEP First we started off with a step, max standardized Australian step height 190mm. Built the platform with 4x2 wood and finished the top off with 21mm thick ply. Using left overs of my bamboo hard wood flooring throughout the house we incorporated it on the face of the step. This is yet to be completed. FALSE WALL due to the dimensions of the room and the way it was shaped we had to build a false wall over the existing window. This false wall has a few things kept in mind, blocking the window, sound dednening that wall which is closest to the neighbors, creating inserts for the speakers, amp and other equipment and hide all wiring behind this area and still have access to it with the outside window if i ever needed it. BULKHEAD/CEILING The bulkhead and ceiling was created for a few reasons, mainly it was for the look but other reasons were to hide aircon ducting and cabling through it. This was done with 4x2 wood. We created the design so the bulkhead has a lip which i can run the stripped lighting around to have the glow effect on the ceiling. Edited April 20, 2016 by fastfwd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastfwd Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 LIGHTING - TESTING I purchased 60LED/m 5050 RGB LED strip lighting with remote. I will be placing this lighting on the lip of the bulkhead to give the glow lighting effect. Also placing it behind the speaker, amp inserts on the false wall. Also under the lip of the step. It will all be controlled by my Logitec remote. It will most probably be a white, or offwhite glow but i am able to have any colour in the RBG range. Also have it fade in and out when i turn movies on and off. GYPROCK and WOOD BEHIND SPEAKER INSERTS We started to Gyprock all of the bulk head, i am unable finish the gyprock just yet as i am waiting on a mate to complete some wall chasing so i can run some wires and waiting on some downlights to come in so i can install them around the bulkhead. This will be much easier if i have access to it. SPEAKERS and AMP I have currently put my speakers and amp on Laybuy and slowely paying them off as i complete the project. I have gone with a full Bowers and Wilkins 600 Series setup. 683 s2 Fronts, 685 5.1 and 7.1 rears, HTM61 Centre and ASW610 sub. Along with a Arcam AVR380 Receiver. Here are some pictures of these: 30AMP LED 12VOLT DRIVER You can buy these custom on ebay. I had to get a 30amp one due to me using 25m of LED stripping around the room. SPEAKER WIRE 30m of 8AWG direct from U.S.A 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastfwd Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 (edited) WALL CHASING Did some wall chasing for the new light switch and rear speakers. DOWNLIGHTING 22 x 3w warm starlights all the way across the room, had to hard wire 4 drivers for them. I put 1 downlight in each speaker well also. VIDEO CABLING 10M length of each = HDMI 2.0, Component, DVI-D, DSUB (VGA) - I really only need the HDMI but it only cost me an extra $40-50 for the other cables so might as well do it now if i ever need it in the future. Doubtful through Edited April 20, 2016 by fastfwd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastfwd Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 AIRCON VENT Had to do a bit of custom work to get this to work properly. The vent was too deep for the bulkhead so i had to cut it up. INSULATION + SOUND DEADENING This stuff was only $60 a bag a bunnings, i thought it would be good to jam up in the bulkhead and behind the false wall. I didnt think it would make much difference to the sound only being in the bulk head but it did a lot. My room is double brick all 4 walls and slab cement ceiling. FILLING SOME GAPS I removed the window sill so i had to fill the cavity with some space saver. FINISHING THE BULKHEAD PLASTERBOARD REMOTE Ozbargins.com let me know this was going for sale for $84 with a promotion code last friday at dick smith with free delivery....Couldnt find it anywhere else for less than $150. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastfwd Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 SPEAKER PLAN: 42 hours spent over 18-20th Oct and this is the progress.. SOUNDCHECK 13mm Soundchek all of the walls. I sanded back 200x200mm portions of the wall every 460mm vertical and horizontal to remove the paint and use gyprock plasterboard adhesive to glue the soundchek to the the walls. ALL HARDWARE PURCHASED AND DELIVERED SITTING IN MY LIVING ROOM. SPEAKER MOUNTING Bought some 15kg rated speaker mounts of ebay and funnily enough the mounting points are identical to the original wall mounting points on the B&W 685's. This saved me a bunch of time not needed to custom mount them to the rear of the speaker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastfwd Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 ALL GYPROCK COMPLETE DOOR INSTALLATIONS Purchased some solid core 230x72x35 doors from ebay. They didnt have any pretty designed solid core doors. Only these but rather function over looks. Had to chisel out the doors ends for the hinges and cut the handle wholes and the latches. Doors has to be reversed also as they were facing the opposite direction originally. PLASTER FINISHING Had a mate of a mate come and finish the plastering as my initial job was scrappy at best and this is the finishing touch that needs to be done right. SPEAKER AND DEVICE SILLS I purchased the exact router piece so these can be routed identical to my window sills to match accordingly. I also dowel and joined wood planks together to make it fit deeper into the sections so it would form as one piece. Then plained filled and sanded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastfwd Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 PAINTING I painted in dark colours to make the projection more vibrant, less reflections plus I went with a high matte finish all round. WALL PAPERPurchased this from a wallpaper site online. Cost me around $600 to fill the two walls. PROJECTOR SCREEN INSTALLI got this 120 inch projector screen off gumtree. The owner built it and never used it in his house so it was a good purchase for $400 when they are $1200 new from Westcoast hifi. NEW CARPETGot this carpet as an off piece for a cheap price. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satanica Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Looks great. More subwooferidge might make you enjoy it a bit more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastfwd Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 Looks great. More subwooferidge might make you enjoy it a bit more. already wired up for the second sub in mind dont worry :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quark Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Looking good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerav Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 Where did you get wallpaper from? and isn't gyprocking the worst job in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darth vader Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 @@fastfwd looks great. Love the up lighting LEDs. Surprised you haven't installed a star panel in the roof, lol. And all of this in the space of one post, I tip my hat to you sir Seriously, it looks great, I bet you cant wait to be done (if you are not already) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastfwd Posted April 23, 2016 Author Share Posted April 23, 2016 Where did you get wallpaper from? and isn't gyprocking the worst job in the world. Online store my wife found in aus. Wasnt cheap i tell you that. i Stuffed up one roll and it cost me 200 bux Gyprocking isnt to bad, i found it therapeutic due to a frame turning into a room., flushing it is the ***** tried my best but ended up getting a mate to complete it as i just couldnt get it looking nice. @@fastfwd looks great. Love the up lighting LEDs. Surprised you haven't installed a star panel in the roof, lol. And all of this in the space of one post, I tip my hat to you sir Seriously, it looks great, I bet you cant wait to be done (if you are not already) thanks mate...i really wanted star panel but its a slab roof for the second floor...no space to put any star lights in i wish tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jventer Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Great post and great room, thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illusion Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Brilliant DIY'er Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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