Long time lurker of this thread, finally done some changes at home that you might be interested in!
It started couple weekends ago, my housemate and I suddenly had the urge to rearrange the lounge. We span it round 90 degrees and implemented a poverty tiered seating system
That's right, the back row is on pallets. 4x EUR Pallets to be precise, very sturdy, perfect fit and FREE!
So that's layout sorted, next we turned our attention to the screen.
It started like this last year.
We've added a second frame to the front basically, allowing a thicker border and an actually square image. It's bang on 2400mmx1000mm now so perfect for films.
Now we had to address the walls, always wanted to do it but never quite had the motivation but we were on a roll.
This is the fabric we used:
http://www.minervacrafts.com/viscos...e-velvet-designer-dress-fabric-per-metre.html
This could be a great new alternative to Devore/Maplin/Whatever guys. It's pretty black and £6.99 (or less)p/m. I managed to get a Devore sample today and heres a few flashed shots to compare.
The Devore is the small patch with the white circle on.
Not the most scientific method I know, but you can see it's pretty dark stuff. At less than half the price it's a great alternative!
Here it is on the screen.
And here's a few pics as everything is now. We intend to do the right hand wall asap, once we figure out something for the door. The far left wall (chimney breast) and behind the sofa was done with really cheap felt just for the sake of it really!
Bare in mind all of this is fairly bodged and temporary aswell, as it's a rented house we had to be quite inventive! We've a mixture of zip ties, picture hooks, fancy 3M adhesive strips & staples!