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You have plenty of room. You could also consider putting a false wall in the front, using an acoustically transparent screen and placing the front speakers and center speakers behind the screen-that would put the speakers out of sight and directly behind the image. You also have enough space to...

I'd second the idea of a sound bar. The great room in my home has a peaked 20' ceiling with a loft in the back. I also had WAF, with the agreement being no free standing speakers in the great room, and I could do what I wanted in the theater. She changed her mind about the theater, but I figured...

If you're open to a fixed screen, you might consider making your own. The easiest is a painted wall, but you need to make the wall smooth and do an even paint job. There used to be threads on the AVS forum on painting screens. The nearest I got to that was with some white spray paint on poured...

Run whatever you are going to use for equipment as a separate circuit from the rest of the house. You might not want your washing machine or refrigerator on the same circuit as your amp.

Wire for what you might want in the future, not what you have right now. While wire is no longer cheaper, it's still easier and less expensive for place wiring now, before the dry wall goes up than it is after everything is done. I'd suggest placing the wiring for a 7.2.4 system. My current...

You might also consider an area rug for most of the room with a pad underneath. Lowes and Home Depot have a good selection. Some echo and reflection is desirable-we don't live in an anechoic world. A good part of what you hear in a small room is echos that occur after more than one reflection...

Running wires can be done in a number of ways. It depends on how your walls are made, and possibly what is above and/or below. I've done things in several houses a number of ways. 1. The simple way is to run the wires on the floor, and either place them on the sides or put something over them...

Nice. Looks fairly kid resistant, too.

I'd like something like this:

I'd suggest deciding how you are gong to lay things out, and go from there. I had a 22' X 15' room with a 9' height. I brought in lawn chairs, masking tape and some spray pain to make screens on a couple of walls, to get a mock up of projecting both ways. I also went out to a theater with my...

As above. I used CL2 wire as well. I believe the information at the time was that CL2 grade wires were resistant to heat and did not conduct a fire along the wiring inside the walls. Building codes in some areas may require them, and if it's new construction, will (probably) have to pass an...

It's easier and cheaper to wire while building before the drywall is up. I'd wire for everything-if you use less, you're not out much. Put the ending into juntion boxes with excess and cover it with a wall plate if you don't use it. 14 gauge should be sufficient-you can get it by the roll from...

Nice. Makes me wonder if the night bridge crew on the Enterprise ran videos on that big screen. Sort of like watching movies while on night CQ duty when we served.

A couple things to consider. Short throw projectors have the added advantage (I've read about, but not used them) of using a screen with what amounts to selective reflection that allows them to reflect the projected beam to a limited (the seating) area, and reflect ambient light elsewhere. The...

A well thought out, beautiful theater. Very impressive.

You might want to check out the local mill wright shops. I had short space to put a door into for my equipment access. I also wanted a smoked glass front. After talking to the shop, I brought in the glass, mounting hardware and dimensions, and had a framed door made to my specifications. It was...

Some of the furniture manufactures have dimensions on their web sites. I used them to determine the configuration of 4 recliners with attached angled center pieces to make a curved row. By the calculations, they appeared to have sufficient room to recline simultaneously. I ordered them on that...

That should work. Post an update with pictures, we're all interested in seeing your result !

I've found the figures in the manual are not exact. The best ways are either to pick a screen size under the maximum and use the zoom to shrink the image to fit, or get the projector, try it out and then select screen size. I made my screen from fabric and sized the frame I stretched it on to...

Lucky for the humming birds !

Something else for you to watch for after the gophers vacate the area. Praying mantis nests. We have humming bird feeders, and started noticing more praying mantis around. Then we began finding nests. We found out that praying mantis catch and eat humming birds. We started catching and...

Projector central has a calculator that can give you a rough idea of the image size you can obtain with a given distance. I've found this not to be entirely accurate. A closer approximation can be found in the projector manual. You can usually download the manual from the company website for any...

You might also consider bookshelf size speakers for the front left and right channels along with a sub woofer. There are also low profile speakers that are somewhat thinner that might be out of the way. If they are mounted above the door frame, they may need to be angled downward towards the...

I assume your seating is as diagrammed, and can't be moved to another wall. I have another idea, but its a bit out of the box, and I haven't seen it done before. If you have any, or can borrow some, try a speaker in the corner versus the side wall. If the speaker on the front has enough...

If the plywood is against the underlying wall without any space, you could do either, and mechanically, it probably wouldn't make any difference. Dealers choice, I'd guess, and whatever is more convenient overall.