jk1980's Respite - Work in Progress

[jk1980]

ROOM IS FINALLY COMPLETED

LAST UPDATE: September 4, 2009

UPDATE DETAILS (September 4, 2009):
1) Poster Wall Support
2) Rear Speaker ledges
3) Curtains
*Check new pics at the end of this post below


POSTED: JULY 10, 2009


Being inspired by a lot of home theater designs here, I finally decided to make my own.

Fortunately, there was an old storage room in which I could use, unfortunately it was far from ideal.

The room is roughly 9ft X 10ft X 9ft (WXDXH).

Problems I was facing with the room are:
1) Electrical system in that room was already shorted, and crumbling
2) Ceiling was falling apart
3) Room held over 15 years of items. (cleaning it would be hell )
4) Far end wall is almost all louver windows and anodized aluminum.
5) Ugly walls and floor (Can't be helped architects of 40 years ago had bad taste )

Before anything, I created a design of what the room would be (more or less) after I fix it up.
I used a nifty program by google to create my initial designs

Top View


Front View


Rear View


Iso 01 View


Iso 02 View


Scope of Work:
1) Carpet Tiles
2) Relocate door to opposite side of the room (Why? To make it more accessible)
3) Put up new walls to cover the old
4) Fix up the electrical and put in new lighting
5) get new glass for the louver windows
6) board up the back with cork to prevent vibrations on the aluminum
7) install really thick curtains
8) install an aircon

It took roughly 2 months to clear up the room and to kill those ginormous spiders. (I kid you not, they were HUGE )

Update 01:
Electricals were just completed.
1) conduits were installed
2) speaker wires were routed
3) tapped in electrical from other parts of the house to route

Ceiling new lighting


Ceiling - Closer look


Existing Door (This will be boarded up soon)


Conduits and other stuff


Conduit - Closer Look


Wall where new door would be installed


Conduits for the rear speaker




POSTED: JULY 13, 2009
Metal wall frame 01


Metal wall frame 02


Metal wall frame 03


Ceiling Guide (Ceiling will be dropped around 15 inches)

* This will also hide the curtain rod

New Door Cut-out


New Door Cut-out (Close-Up)



POSTED: JULY 15, 2009

Finally completed the wall metal frame.

We have just begun putting up the walls. Walls are made up of High Density Gypsum Boards.
Why Gypsum boards? I would think Gypsum boards should have some acoustic absorption properties since essentially they are high compacted chalk boards.

Well in case I am wrong then I have to put up bass traps and stuff. But until things are completed we won't know, so stay tuned.

Gypsum Board 01


Gypsum Board 02


Gypsum Board (Wire Cut-Outs)



POSTED: JULY 15, 2009

I just love my new door. It's one of those very heavy solid doors

New Door 01


New Door 02


Puttying all the new walls have been finished, guess next step would be sanding then finally painting

Putty Wall


Putty Wall - Close Up


Since the T-runners are up, it's just a matter of time before I can put up the acoustic boards.

T-Runners 01


T-Runners 02



POSTED: JULY 17, 2009

\Wall


In case your wondering what your looking at here, this is actually where the original door was. That door was dead-bolted shut, so theres no way it could be opened from the other side.

Acoustic Board and electrical test


I'll be screwing in a plywood on these brackets, after that I'll probably blu-tack my 9.1s on it.

Metal brackets


Color started with Adobe Red, and later mixed with a little black. I'm trying to achieve a choco brown color. This is only one coat so far and paint still a little wet. Hopefully I get the color I want.

Paint Test


POSTED: JULY 18, 2009

I added a few more hints of black to get the choco brown color I wanted. Apologies for the reflection.

First Coat


Of course since the door is of a different material, shade is a little different from the walls, but not the noticeable.

First Coat - Door


I said it before and I'll say it again, Architecture of 40 years ago sucks. I don't even know why there are gaps under the aluminum wall.

I added metal supports/wood then finally an acoustic board to fill the gap. I'll be painting the acoustic board though the same choco brown as the wall. I know this will reduce it's effects but for this aesthetics first

The before and After


I had to sacfice a few of the louver windows but at least less areas for sound to leak out of

On the second hole will be putting an acoustic board there

New aluminum for aircon support


I bought some blank electrical plates and had a half inch drill bit create a hole right in the middle for the wires to come out of.

Electrical Plates with drilled hole.


POSTED: JULY 20, 2009

Ceiling Tiles 01


Ceiling Tiles 02


Painting of the entire room is complete. BUt I'm honestly till not satisfied until I get the "clean" look I wanted. I'll probably spend a few more days sanding, puttying repainting.

Front Wall 01


Front Wall 02


This still needs a few more work

Rear Wall 01


Rear Wall 02



POSTED: JULY 24, 2009

Outer grill cut-out


My new panny aircon


My new panny aircon (Close-Up)



POSTED: August 3, 2009

After A LOT of problems with the paint. And after weeks of work finally painting has been completed. Although there are still some problems but not that bad anymore and they'll be covered by the posters I'll be putting up.

Front 01


Front 02


Corner 01


Corner 02


Door


POSTED: August 8, 2009

Before flooring could be laid out whatever imperfections existed had to be fixed.

Thankfully the only floor problem was an unsightly hole where the old wall use to be. (probably used as a support). If you notice the picture of my door the hole was right under it.

Just a little mixture of white cement then "wala" the hole is gone.

White Cement


After a few hours flooring was complete. I really love the new floor, it's something different. WHen light it directly shone on it it has these small sparkles similar to what you see on the beach.

It does really mimic how the mineral sardonyx looks like. And I feel it gives great contrast to the ceiling.

New Floor


On this shot you can see the small sparkles.

New Floor - Ant's eye view


New Floor - Corner 01


New Floor - Corner 02


POSTED: September 4, 2009

After long last my room is finally completed. All that remains is to bring the stuff in.

Now for the details of the last update.


1) There is no way my metal frame and gypsum board would be able to support a 15 pound poster. So after a lot of planing, finally with physics, a few small hooks and a lot of high tension nylon, I was able to create a backing support for the poster. I made the backing in a way that you would be able to lay it flat on the wall.

Wall poster 01


Wall poster 02


2) Rear speaker ledges. Only additional work I did on this was to drill additional screw holes on the metal frame to make the ledge sturdier. Also added a layer of sticky tack between the wall and the plywood to act as a cushion.

Ledge 01


Ledge 02


3) Finally the last piece of the room is the addition of the curtains. I no longer have to look at the ugly windows again.

Here are some little FYIs about this.
- There are actually 2 sets of curtains I found one to be thick and heavy but I wasn't satisfied so there is actually one on top of another.

- The third set had to be modified due to the length.

- Behind the curtains on the window's ledge are a few packs of "SILICA GELS" to prevent moisture, Dried and fresh "BAY LEAVES" to prevent insects especially cockroaches and "BLATTANEX" to ensure to kill all insects if the bay leaves don't work.

Now for the Curtains.

Curtain - Top

Here you guys will see another reason for the sudden cieling drop. I wanted a gradient look on the curtains as well as no light will appear from the top during daytime.

Curtain - Middle

Sorry for the wrinkles it's hard to put up really big and thick curtains.

Curtain - Bottom


Curtain - Close-Up


For my finishing touch i finished 2 cans of lysol on the entire room.
If there are any germs or mildew... They're dead now.

Thats it

Thanks for viewing, Com back again once I finished setting up my equipment.

That's it for now. More updates soon.

Btw, Here is my kit list
TV - Panasonic 50PV80
Reciever - Denon 1910
Fronts - Wharfedale 9.5
Center - Wharfedale 9CM
Rear - Wharfedale 9.1
Sub - Polk PSW110
Players - PS3 with 500 GB internal
- Wii
- Pioneer DV610 (black)
- Aspire 5920G (Thank god for built in 1080p HDMI out)
Power - HOSSONI 1500 (2X)
- Panther Line Filter (2X)
Others - DLINK NAS with 2 2TB hard drives (Never run out of space again)