I used a wood frame (ash or poplar from Lowes) and covered it with blackout cloth/curtain liner from Hancock Fabrics. The border is door casing painted black. The fabric is a bright matte white. Room is completely dark and I use a Panasonic AE-900U with the lamp turned to low. It is more than bright enough after your eyes adjust to the dark room. The Final Four b-ball games looked spectacular last night.
Pic 1 - Me in front of the frame. I used the same cleat hanging system that GR Research uses on their surround speakers (page 2 of this
link). Pic 2 - Finished screen.
Pic 3 - I was taking a picture of my sub but caught the corner of the screen in it. You can see the fluted door casing as well as the decorative corner square that I used. Not a single person that has seen it has ever noticed the border or those decorative squares. But my wife likes them so I used them. They pushed my total cost from $50 to about $75. Total building time was one weekend. Most of that time was spent waiting on the black paint to dry. I built it so I can remove the border to try different fabrics or paint the fabric. After seeing the picture, I never felt the need to do it.
-Robert
