Recent content by ems101

To the finished product. Just in time for the playoffs!

Went from this old room

Added the final touches.

Once the walls were done, I simply painted the floor (carpet was not in budget). also did the same to the joists on the ceiling. Could not finish it due to height of ceiling and I still wanted access to kitchen plumbing. I built the risers and installed the seats. I finished the concession...

Once the front was done I needed to figure out what I wanted to finish the side walls. In retrospect, this was a bad idea. I like the look of it and wouldn't change it, but the amount of work was stupid! In total, I spent approx 90 hrs carving and painting the foam to make it look like rock...

Thanks for the info Mike, I already have one but always looking for new cool stuff to add to the movie room

More pictures of my progress coming soon. Any comments are welcome

The 6 posts and 3 beams cost approx $80 total and provided my kids a lot of fun bashing and throwing things on the boards to "weather" them. A win in my books! They still talk about how they helped build the movie room and point out the beams. I liked the look of it so much that I decided to...

Pictures of the posts I custom made with cheap knotty pine boards. I then stained them and added industrial lights to complete the look

Next was building the front wall that would house the screen and my DVD and Bluray collection. Simple 2x4's sufficed as nothing was structural. I needed a header to hide the screen when it was retracted. Also wanted to keep a rustic feel to the shelving to keep with the cave theme. I also...

Now that the door was done I could start the actual room. I wanted my man cave to actually look like a cave. Ok more of a mine so I designed what I wanted and started looking at how to make the effect I wanted the cheapest way possible. Here is the room with only drywall done and a few of the...

Here is where things get interesting. I've always wanted a secret room. I thought it would be a great idea to put in a secret door to the home theatre. So we built that first seeing as I have 2 kids and I wanted to be able to keep them out of the room while construction was ongoing. Also, not...

Here are very simple mock ups of what the space looked like prior to the project and what my simple plan was with it The large room had low headspace and I wanted there to be some sort of stadium seating so that was going to be an issue. I decided to take down the wall at the back of the room...

I've been planning a dedicated Home Theater for years. I knew what I wanted it to look like but had no idea how to get it done. Enter research on Google and Pinterest! My somewhat simple home theater project morphed into a 3 year project with a whole bunch of cool gadgets and unique aspects...