[ab1385]

I've just posted this up in the mixed HT thread, and I thought I'd post this as a start.

We just bought our first house which was quite a mess and hadn't been updated since 1972. All the walls were rotten, the plumbing didn't work properly, the house needed a complete rewire etc. On top of that I wanted to get all the wires etc. chased into the walls - I wasn't really up to it myself unfortunately, especially on a small timescale (2 months for the whole house) so I got a builder to do it all for us.

So t's not quite finished yet, but I'll add more pictures once it's a bit more fully set up. Alas, I didn't really have much opportunity to post pictures as it was done, so there'll only be before and after pictures, no pictures of how it as done.

Before:

After:

There's still quite a lot more I want to do with this, but at the moment my equipment is:

B&W 805S fronts
Mordaunt Short 905i centre (first on the upgrade list)
B&W DS7 surrounds
Monolith DF sub

Denon AVR-2307 amp (next on the upgrade list, but the Rotel 1570/1575 I want will take some saving up!)
Rotel RMB-1072 power amp for the front L+R
Toshiba HD-EP30 HD-DVD (to be replaced sometime soon with a Sony BDP-S360 Blu-ray player)
Sky HD
X-box 360 (which I'd like to replace with an elite, partly 'cause I want all the equipment to be black, partly because the current one doesn't do HDMI, and partly because if I wanted to get a simpler pre/pro amp which didn't upscale it would be easier (e.g Audiolab 800AP). Also partly because a friend spilled vodka on it and now it's a little sticky!)

Toshiba standard sort of 32" TV
Optoma HD700x projector (4th on the upgrade list??)
Cheapish 92" pull down screen
Standard sort of HDMI splitter so I can show all this on either screen easily.

All controlled by Harmony One.
Lighting is controlled by a Lutron Grafik-Eye GRX-3106.

Things I still need to do to the room are:

Tidy up some more stuff (there's boxes everywhere, just hidden temporarily for the photo)
Add another 2 speakers at the rear (B&W 685s perhaps)
There's a few areas around the edge which need oak beading to cover edges, e.g. around the fireplace.
Replace the 92" pull down screen with a 100" electric one, perhaps with 12V trigger.

[digriz666]

Hi ya,
Thats a real improvement! (Obviously!!)
Is it the camera angle that makes the pj screen look about 3 miles from the sofa?
And did you keep the lovely 1970's curtains?.....

cheers
steve

[ab1385]

Yeah, that's an effect of the 10mm lens. It's about 3.5m wide, and about 4.5m from the sofa to the screen. The camera makes it look a lot longer and narrower than it is, but it's just aboout the right distance for the size of screen.

Oh, and no, we chucked the '70s curtains!

[alz2605]

Wow! What a fantastic trasformation into a totally stunning room. Well done on all the hard work that went into doing it up.

Will look forward to some more pics

[FLETCH1]

nice set up very well thought out

[gfunk2k]

that is one impressive setup you have there. i can see that you have the AV bug!!

[MR. APPLEHEAD]

10mm lens. wow. Does really make it look long and narrow. I bet its perfect in reality

Is it me, or does everyone who owns a monolith use it as a table

Good job

[ab1385]

Thanks for the positive feedback guys - I'll try and get some more photos up later (with a narrower angle lens??) but may be delayed by the arrival of new pets...

And as to the monolith being used as a table - my sister (who is very technophobic I should add) sat next to it with Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith on and thought it was just a side table and the speakers were incredibly bassy! If anyone is not sure if the monolith would fit in their room, it definitely does easily pass as a piece of funiture and is a very accomplished sub - to me it sounds better than my old SVS cylinder.

[digriz666]

[QUOTE=ab1385;10885667]Thanks for the positive feedback guys - I'll try and get some more photos up later (with a narrower angle lens??) but may be delayed by the arrival of new pets...

Pets?

Cool, keep the pictures coming!

cheers
steve

[kourosh]

There is plenty of room for a bigger screen

looks good though