"Home Cinema" Living Room - mostly complete

dancook · 26 Feb 2018 at 15:00

Phate said:
Looks amazing man, I remember following the original thread

One thing, if someone is watching something and you're on the PC (or someone else is) does that speaker right next to monitor get annoying? Not a nit pick, just wondered if its been a problem?

Stunning stunning room has others have said, the colour looks fantastic and the design of each piece of furniture seems to suit it so well. Great work

There's only my wife and I - Louise opts to watch things on her mobile phone and I mostly have my Astro A50 gaming headset on when I'm the PC so either way it no bother even if she did use the PJ

Besides she'd only watch Rue Paul's Drag Race or something... not sure it has surround sound

thank you thank you

Phate · 26 Feb 2018 at 15:13

dancook said:
There's only my wife and I - Louise opts to watch things on her mobile phone and I mostly have my Astro A50 gaming headset on when I'm the PC so either way it no bother even if she did use the PJ

Besides she'd only watch Rue Paul's Drag Race or something... not sure it has surround sound

thank you thank you

To sit there with that option and pick a phone is mind boggling

But hey, whichever works

This room has given me lots of ideas for when I go full Dolby Atmos as well. Thanks for sharing

dancook · 26 Feb 2018 at 17:15

Phate said:
To sit there with that option and pick a phone is mind boggling

But hey, whichever works

This room has given me lots of ideas for when I go full Dolby Atmos as well. Thanks for sharing

She started it up to watch Rue Paul! She only asked about how to change the aspect ratio - it irks me that she didn't stop the screen in the right place

It's easily watchable with blinds open and lights on

and Thor Ragnarok arrived!

Phate · 26 Feb 2018 at 19:19

Haha I shouldn't-t have said anything

a1ex2001 · 27 Feb 2018 at 02:03

I really like what you've done except the room looks so dark in photo's taken during the day I'd be craving lighter walls and more natural light

dancook · 27 Feb 2018 at 16:27

a1ex2001 said:
I really like what you've done except the room looks so dark in photo's taken during the day I'd be craving lighter walls and more natural light

There's a window behind the projection screen, so during the day that's usually up and there's more natural light in here. But it's not for everyone

just me

a1ex2001 · 27 Feb 2018 at 16:38

dancook said:
There's a window behind the projection screen, so during the day that's usually up and there's more natural light in here. But it's not for everyone just me

Which is all the matters, I couldn't live with the dark feel that the pictures have even with the screen up but it's your living room and your happy which is the main thing. Oh and obviously the sound is awful as there is no 6" pile carpet so you wasted all your money

dancook · 27 Feb 2018 at 16:42

a1ex2001 said:
Which is all the matters, I couldn't live with the dark feel that the pictures have even with the screen up but it's your living room and your happy which is the main thing. Oh and obviously the sound is awful as there is no 6" pile carpet so you wasted all your money

Good job my standards are low

dancook · 15 Nov 2018 at 10:29

A little addition to my "home cinema" setup, a very quiet bike - so much fitness to come.. i'm sure of it

Spin Bike by dancook1982, on Flickr

eddie101 · 3 Dec 2018 at 14:42

Too many reflective surfaces for my liking....

hornetstinger · 3 Dec 2018 at 16:22

eddie101 said:
Too many reflective surfaces for my liking....

Yup. Empty room no furinishings will sound echoey. Talking of which may need to sort my hifi room as apart from carpet and audio bits nothing else in there

dancook · 3 Dec 2018 at 18:45

hornetstinger said:
Yup. Empty room no furinishings will sound echoey.

Not that it's empty, but In all this time can't say I've noticed.

a1ex2001 · 3 Dec 2018 at 22:43

dancook said:
Not that it's empty, but In all this time can't say I've noticed.

Plus it's your living room and not everyone wants carpet on the walls and ceiling! I'm sure it would be different in a dedicated cinema room.

Great idea with the bike, a 'quick' lord of the rings extended edition marathon and you'll be ready for the Tour de France!

eddie101 · 4 Dec 2018 at 11:00

dancook said:
Not that it's empty, but In all this time can't say I've noticed.

Also, I'm just being a ****. Saw your post on the MLG group

dancook · 4 Dec 2018 at 11:59

eddie101 said:
Also, I'm just being a ****. Saw your post on the MLG group

haha

well played

If I were to take it a little more seriously I'd say when you are on the sofa the light reflections on the pictures can't be seen from that angle. Also the light reflection on the bifolds only distract the dog.. who thinks there's something outside..

and the reason the picture is quite light is because i'm using a large monitor to illuminate the bike

that makes a huge difference to the room and obviously gets turned off during movies.

Oh and it is day time.

dancook · 4 Dec 2018 at 12:02

a1ex2001 said:
Plus it's your living room and not everyone wants carpet on the walls and ceiling! I'm sure it would be different in a dedicated cinema room.

too true!

a1ex2001 said:
Great idea with the bike, a 'quick' lord of the rings extended edition marathon and you'll be ready for the Tour de France!

I've only managed 30 minute stints so far, but I try to do it daily and at least I work up a good sweat.

i'll build up to it !

bowey · 10 Dec 2018 at 22:02

What paint did you use, looks great.

llamadal · 11 Dec 2018 at 21:50

Looks fantastic, nice work.

NeverWinter · 12 Dec 2018 at 12:58

Very nice, very jealous.

Warbie · 12 Dec 2018 at 17:25

Good work man!