Need advice on a setup for our new place...

[jvoorhees]

We're gonna be moving into a new place in November... and my major project is gonna be the theatre room in the unfinished basement... but for the meantime I wanted to get a decent set up upstairs in our living room for when company is over...

Ive included a pic at the bottom of what the room looks like in the show home... we will be mounting our tv above the fireplace. Ive been going back and forth with setting up a soundbar above the fireplace... to doing just 2.1 surround... then to doing 5.1.... if Im gonna be doing 5.1 I wanted to get small speakers... something small in terms of Bose's stuff... since the basement is unfinished... we'd be able to fish the lines down through the walls into the basement... then back up to the amp/recvr

So Id love to hear what you guys think would be a decent setup... I just dunno where to start

Cheers in advance!