Recent content by Jeff Engel

Damn, better get to more than craken. It took me 5 months to do mine. Better hire some elves. No more posting, get to work.

I'm with Eric, I have rope lighting behind my crown molding and around my riser and sconces on the walls. I dim both and they give off plenty of light for game watching. My can lights stay off except for cleaning and the rope/sconce lights get dimmed off for movies. Look for X10 remote dimmers...

Mine too is black and burgundy. Check out my pics to see how nice it looks together.

I agree with Charles; each movie that I like, I like on different merits. In one movie it might be the story that drew me in, the next the scenery, the next the plot..interesting characters, witty dialogue, 'moving music'. For me it takes only one good reason to like a movie. And as long as I am...

And remeber that THX recommends 36 degrees for the LAST row of seating, not the primary, so your furthest row back should have 36 degrees.

Tomas, my room is 19.5 X15.5 and I have easy seating for 8. PLus I have a 123" diagonal 16x9 screen. You should have no trouble with what you are planning. My pics are in my signature link below. I only have couches for 6 but more than enough room for 2 extra chairs.

Well, to really answer the question we need to know what you plan on doing with the windows. Do you still want to be able to use them, or do you just want to block all light coming form them in a semi permanent manner. If you still want to use them, I think you'll have to go buy some blackout...

13 feet is too far, I only sit 10' from my 123" screen. I used to sit 8 ft from my 61" RPTV and that was a fine distance.

John, Yes, all work including design was done myself. It's quite a piece of work if I do say so myself. I'm quite proud of it and would love to show it off to you if you're interested. I'm home on vaction until next thurs. so any time between now and then you can come by and check it out.

Hey John, yes the clay shifting so much is what precludes a basement. I have seen one basement while in my home search, it was over in Little Elm and I almost snatched it up. For my 2 cents I would say keeping the two rooms separate but near is more ideal. What you will be settling for is two...

Yeah, mozilla rocks...no pop ups for me either. Also, funny pic. "three shall be the magic number, 4 is too many and 5 is right out."

Thanks Ricardo, no Dennis did not design my theater. I did all the work myself. Of course I used alot of other peoples pictures as inspiration for my own so his influence might have been in there somewhere. I like to think of it as my interpretation of many others ideas:emoji_thumbsup:

Mine is on the second floor with an opening to the stairs only blocked with velvet curtains. The whole house gets to hear what the theater is playing and the garage(which is directly under the subs) sounds like it is about to fall apart during the intense scenes. Anything can be sufficiently...

First, buy stock in home depot. Second, tell your friends you wont be able to see them for two weeks as you have lots of research to do. Third, spend as much time as you can reading all the posts in the construction section. And don't skimp, you will learn a lot about what to do, and more...

It appears that yahoo has fixed their problems. My photo links work again.