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Well, where do we start.
I have put up with the terrible decor until I could afford to 'make it my own'.
I've always been a huge cinema fan, and a bit of a technology geek. A home cinema setup of sorts has always been on the cards. And I’m now well underway to achieving my goal.
To start with, the shape of my living room has always been a problem. With the large chimney breast and the windows and doors on every wall, I was never able to actually position a TV directly in front of my sofa and ended up with the TV in the corner. This annoyed my tremendously.
Let me apologise beforehand if there are some gaps in the pictures...I kept forgetting to take pics.
EQUIPMENT LIST
Samsung 46" F86
Sky + (soon to be replaced with HD)
PS3
Xbox 360 (soon to be replaced with Elite)
Media PC
Octavia 5x2 HDMI splitter
Sanyo Z5
Harmony 1000
Sony HT-SS1100
You may at this point ask why I’ve gone with such a low spec surround sound system.
To be frank , I was running out of cash, I wanted small speakers to mount in wall, and I’ve never had a high spec system so hopefully I won’t know what I’m missing
They should be much better than the standard TV speakers anyway.
So let’s not hear anymore on the speakers.
This first pic is a quick knock-up of the current shape of the room including door/window locations and the chimney breast.
The size of the room is approx 25ft x 15ft
As you can see it didn’t really leave much room to work with.
I decided to do away with the fire and create a stud wall to effectively box in one of the alcoves, and thus giving me a flat wall. I had also decided to create another stud wall on the other side so that the TV could be mounted in the wall.
Something like this..
I hope I’m making sense so far.
The first obstacle was to remove the old fire...an expensive job it seems.
The house was run by a back boiler...which meant that it I wanted to bin the fire i needed a new boiler.
So after a bit of research the old fire was removed, and a Worcester condensing combi installed upstairs.
I moved all my equipment down one end of the room so i could get to work on the stud walls .
This is the wall that will eventually contain the tv/speakers.
The stud wall was relatively easy to put up. I had to chisel out a hole in the chimney breast to accommodate one of the rear speakers (the hole is hidden by the plasterboard in the next picture)
With one wall almost complete....
I have put up with the terrible decor until I could afford to 'make it my own'.
I've always been a huge cinema fan, and a bit of a technology geek. A home cinema setup of sorts has always been on the cards. And I’m now well underway to achieving my goal.
To start with, the shape of my living room has always been a problem. With the large chimney breast and the windows and doors on every wall, I was never able to actually position a TV directly in front of my sofa and ended up with the TV in the corner. This annoyed my tremendously.
Let me apologise beforehand if there are some gaps in the pictures...I kept forgetting to take pics.
EQUIPMENT LIST
Samsung 46" F86
Sky + (soon to be replaced with HD)
PS3
Xbox 360 (soon to be replaced with Elite)
Media PC
Octavia 5x2 HDMI splitter
Sanyo Z5
Harmony 1000
Sony HT-SS1100
You may at this point ask why I’ve gone with such a low spec surround sound system.
To be frank , I was running out of cash, I wanted small speakers to mount in wall, and I’ve never had a high spec system so hopefully I won’t know what I’m missing
They should be much better than the standard TV speakers anyway.
So let’s not hear anymore on the speakers.
This first pic is a quick knock-up of the current shape of the room including door/window locations and the chimney breast.
The size of the room is approx 25ft x 15ft
As you can see it didn’t really leave much room to work with.
I decided to do away with the fire and create a stud wall to effectively box in one of the alcoves, and thus giving me a flat wall. I had also decided to create another stud wall on the other side so that the TV could be mounted in the wall.
Something like this..
I hope I’m making sense so far.
The first obstacle was to remove the old fire...an expensive job it seems.
The house was run by a back boiler...which meant that it I wanted to bin the fire i needed a new boiler.
So after a bit of research the old fire was removed, and a Worcester condensing combi installed upstairs.
I moved all my equipment down one end of the room so i could get to work on the stud walls .
This is the wall that will eventually contain the tv/speakers.
The stud wall was relatively easy to put up. I had to chisel out a hole in the chimney breast to accommodate one of the rear speakers (the hole is hidden by the plasterboard in the next picture)
With one wall almost complete....
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, great work so far mate, can't wait to see the finished article.