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Now was the time to clean up and get the carpet. I choose a bright red carpet. There is hardly any room in the house where I would be able to put such carpet without constant eye-strain but here was the place. The carpet doesn't lie simply on subfloor, there is a thick under-carpet foam stapled on the subfloor and then the carpet is stretched. I don't think you would want to do this by yourself. The best is to go to the store where you first choose the carpet, order it and they will bring it to your house and install it. See also the page about trim. The next thing are curtains. They are not on my CAD design since I wasn't sure how to draw curtain but they were going to be there from the first day.
The curtains will make the room not only warm and cozy, but they have also a great acoustic properties and will get rid of any hall from walls.
Of course the best would be to use red velvet, but if you ever did shopping for velvet you know that it is one of the most expensive material. For curtains you need at least 3 times the real width. I got something similar with nice red color but for $3/meter in VAL-MART. I've got there also a thin curtain rods and hooks.
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My bold CAD design asks for two antic columns right on sides of the screen. These columns will not only make the room less rectangular but they will also optically hide the front speakers from direct view.
One idea was to actually build the front speakers directly on or even into the columns. I was thinking a long time how to build the columns. One way was to order the columns from a home and garden store because they didn't have anything in stock which I liked. Such columns will come up to few hundred dollars. That's one way.
The other way was to build them. But how?
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The home theater is all about movies and movies are all about lies. Nothing is real in the movies so my columns don't have to be real neither.
So in hardware store I picked up a builders hard-paper tube which is I guess used to pour concrete to the ground. I could choose from a big variety of diameters. Then I bought a light-marble textured wall paper and in few minutes I had the best columns 20 bucks can give you.
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 Because of the good start, I simply continued with improvisation for the head and foot of the column. If you look closely at the image you see that this is a wall clock on a piece of wood, all painted white.
This sounds cruel, but the wall clock was a cheap $5 bucks plastic clock from VAL-MART and it was the exact size for my tubes.
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This is the complete view of the finished theater room with the columns. |
