Michael Merrell
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Question: How important is symmetry of the ceiling when orienting your theater?
Our new house has a mother-in-law apartment over the garage that I will be turning into a theater room. The main room is roughly 24'x17', with the stairs coming up on one side, effectively making the dimensions closer to 24'x14'. The ceiling is vaulted, going from about 8', on the wall paralleling the stairs, to (I'm guessing) 20'. There is a door (to a room I will use as an equipment closet) in the center of the tall wall, opposite the wall where the stairs are.
So, the question is, do I orient things towards the stairs, placing the screen against the railing for the stairs? This would give me 11' to the seat-backs (seats placed with enough distance from the back wall to allow the door to the equipment closet to open). This would also provide for a symmetrical orientation relative to the slope of the ceiling. I could mount the projector behind the wall, in the closet, in this configuration.
Or, do I orient 90 degrees to the above setup, giving me a longer room, but asymmetrical ceiling? I'd have to rig up a way for mounting the projector on the slanted ceiling, but my current mount might actually swivel enough...
http://lohrman.com/vt/et/p.htm
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Thanks,
--Mike
Our new house has a mother-in-law apartment over the garage that I will be turning into a theater room. The main room is roughly 24'x17', with the stairs coming up on one side, effectively making the dimensions closer to 24'x14'. The ceiling is vaulted, going from about 8', on the wall paralleling the stairs, to (I'm guessing) 20'. There is a door (to a room I will use as an equipment closet) in the center of the tall wall, opposite the wall where the stairs are.
So, the question is, do I orient things towards the stairs, placing the screen against the railing for the stairs? This would give me 11' to the seat-backs (seats placed with enough distance from the back wall to allow the door to the equipment closet to open). This would also provide for a symmetrical orientation relative to the slope of the ceiling. I could mount the projector behind the wall, in the closet, in this configuration.
Or, do I orient 90 degrees to the above setup, giving me a longer room, but asymmetrical ceiling? I'd have to rig up a way for mounting the projector on the slanted ceiling, but my current mount might actually swivel enough...
http://lohrman.com/vt/et/p.htm
(select apartment from the dropdown)
Thanks,
--Mike