Dedicated room on a budget

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Background:

I have been considering upgrading my TV in my living room for some time. I currently use the TV with a HTPC for all my TV, movies and computing. The TV is a JVC 56" HD-ILA 720p. The TV is good but for computing I was finding the resolution too restrictive so wanted a 1080p set. The only TV I could find that I was almost happy with was the new 52" samsung LCD. It costs £2300 and for that I would have got a smaller TV that is 1080p but appart from that would not be much different to the JVC. This just seemed like a lot of money for not much improvement so decided rather than that I would convert my top bedroom to a dedicated room using my original budget for the TV (£2500).

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The room:

The room was not much used and in a huge mess

Notice the lovely head board

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Cleared the room:

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Equipement:

For £2500 I needed projector, amp, speakers, HTPC. So far I have everything excpet the HTPC.

Projector - Sanyo Z5

£630

http://www.1staudiovisual.co.uk/cata...or-p-1783.html

Was a choice between this and the panasonic. Was concerned with the flickering issue with the panasonic so went with the Z5.

AMP/speakers

£900 - including cables

Onkyo TX-SR605
Q Acoustics 1000 speakers

http://www.creative-audio.co.uk/HCS_ONK605_Q1000.htm

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The room with the equipement in it. Cabling for speakers and projector go into loft then back down in wall.

Got some ikea seats. Cheap but comfortable.

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Painted the walls. Steel gray 4 and 1.

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Moved my office furniture up from what was my office. The unit to the left used to be wider. I modified this myself to fit the space exactly. All the AV equipement will go there.

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That is the progress so far. Someone is coming round today to fit lan cables from the server to the room.

[wavefront]

Looks good so far, I quite like the grey I hope you don't mind asking but does the LAN wiring cost much and will any electrician do it or do you need someone specific?

[kingfats]

Originally Posted by DLPMaybe

The room:

The room was not much used and in a huge mess

Notice the lovely head board

What's wrong with the head board!
Looks like your rooms gonna be cool,nice one!

[Miniholic]

Great looking room mate.

Have you got a painted screen or is the full wall the same shade? Can't really tell from the photo.

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Originally Posted by wavefront

Looks good so far, I quite like the grey I hope you don't mind asking but does the LAN wiring cost much and will any electrician do it or do you need someone specific?

I paid £100 for two runs of cat5e. One run from living room to garage. One from garage to third floor bedroom via loft. http://www.vispec.co.uk/ did the cabling. Very nice job including testing the quality of the line. Ran the cable through the loft down in the wall to a face plate. Nice bloke too; definelty recommended if you are local to them.

I guess an electrician would do it but you would probably have to test the line your self. The bit of kit he brought to test the line costs £1000

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Originally Posted by wavefront

Looks good so far, I quite like the grey

Out of the dark colours this was my favourite. I was painting it as a slight compromise to get a dark room but now it is up I think it looks quite cool. I will just have to call the room the "submarine"

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Originally Posted by Miniholic

Great looking room mate.

Have you got a painted screen or is the full wall the same shade? Can't really tell from the photo.

I have painted the screen with a matt white (4 coats!). I will see how it goes and may get some screen goo eventually. I have some wood that needs a couple extra coats of black paint. What that is done I will put it up as a border.

On the subject of the screen do not judge the picture quality on these shots. I have made no attempt to capture how good the image is.

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The "screen" with the projector off:

The office area including home made rack. The gap is for my HTPC (after I spec, order and build it). The big silver PC is my server(windows home server) and will be hidden in a cupboard in anouther room: