Mikkeli's dedicated HT

[mikkeli]

Here's my build blog for my first HT. My theater is completely separated from living area, it has only one door which leads to outdoors. There is stairs to upstairs in right/back corner of the HT. Upstairs is going to be home office with media storage.

Originally this area had only one floor and it was garage. Previous owner of the house was goldsmith who worked at home. During this time garage got upper floor and was transformed to 2-floor working area for goldsmith. Now it's going to be completely rebuild to dedicated home theater.

Here are some pictures of this project so far:

October 11th 2009

Here is some "before" pictures:



Picture taken from entrance. Radiator, sinks and fluorescent lamps are going to be removed.



Picture taken from screen wall. Here you can see where garage doors used to be.



All windows are going to be covered under new wall material.

October 24th 2009

Radiator and sinks removed. Also some old electric cables removed and that old fuse box is next on the list.
Future home office is also under construction. All septums removed. Also wooden wall panels need to be removed.
Some work for new walls and electrics is already done.





March 16th 2010



Stairs removed and some work done for walls.



Some of the numerous cables running through theater.



HT is equipped with "central vacuum system".

March 17th 2010



Iron mounting installed.

March 18th 2010



Water pipe installed for heating purposes. 100 m in total.

March 21st 2010



New concrete floor added 80 mm.

March 24th 2010



Glass wool added to walls.



Projector mount.



Projector mount installed.

March 25th 2010



Supporting pillars and some new wall panel installed (Halltex Taika 04).

March 26th 2010



Ecophon acoustic ceiling needs some rails.



Laser for wall ceiling installation.



Close-up of rail installation.



Some Sombra A panels and halogen spots installed.



More ceiling rail system.

March 29th 2010



First group of spots in action.



Pillars are grinded and ready for some black stain.

[neos_peace]

looks like you got a great start there it'll be itertisting to see whta it looks like all done.

[wokkerk]

good call on the heated floors. cant wait to see the rest of it.

[mikkeli]

Hardware gathered for my HT so far:

108" Multibrackets fixed frame screen
JVC DLA-HD350-B projector
Harman Kardon AVR255 AV-receiver
7.1 system from SVS in rosenut finish:
- MTS-01 main speakers
- MCS-01 center
- MBS-01 for side & rear surround
- PB13-Ultra subwoofer
Oppo BDP-83 region free
Toshiba HD-DVD
Playstation 3
HDTV set top box
Popcorn Hour A-110

Quick update:

Just applied 2 layers of black stain on supporting pillars. Also stairs are getting same treatment and i'm going to add some LED steplights.

[JudasPainkill3r]

Looks great Mikael. I have been waiting since November to see your HT Build pics. Can't wait for the rest.

Great job so far.

[Kynch]

Wow Mikael, cannot wait to see the end product!

[halamadrid]

Great set-up indeed Mikael . Are you bringing in media from your PC via wireless through the PS3? How long until you're popping in the flicks?

[mikkeli]

Thank you all for your kind words!

There will be both wireless/wired connection between theater and home office with PC server <-> PS3 & Popcorn Hour.

I have to wait several weeks before new concrete floor is completely dry and new floor material can be installed. During these weeks HT "should" be completed otherwise.