edhellaby
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How do guys. Well after months of studying everyone else's threads in envy it is time to have a go at doing this myself. This will be a step by step, so please have some patience, i guess it will take me about 3/4 weeks to get it done.
Here is some background to the project anyway. I bought my fisrt place a couple of years back, a small 2 bed flat in pretty bad condition. We had to do everything to it, but unfortunately didnt know much about running cables, which is a shame as i had the whole place rewired. I had a lodger living in a small double/large single back room, but he has moved out now, so it is all mine (oh and the mrs's).
The room is 2m * 3.75m and I am hoping to get a PJ in there. The room only has to do 2 things; Cinema and home office.
Here are some pics of the room when we first got the place. (apologies if i have uploaded them wrong, please let me know if I have to change it), as you can see, it was near enough derelict
Here is the room:
Here is the mrs cleaning up the old flooring ready for the oak floor to go down.
So we did a very quick job in here and rewired, chucked some paint up and stuck some flooring down. Two years on I am in the middle of stripping it again ready for the plasterer to get in. Here are some more pics for a better idea:
OK so that gives you an idea for what we have got to play with. Now the plan is to build something like this (excuse my 1st attempt of sketchup):
As you can see I am looking to utilise the alcove/wardrobe to creat a small desk area. This will be covered using a curtain.
The AV kit will sit inside the cupboard on the right, and will be cooled using case cooling along with some hefty vents in the side of the cupboard.
The PJ will be ceiling mounted and the screen will come down infront of the wardrobe/alcove (obviously i will not be using the office are whilt the PJ is on).
The seating will be placed infront of the window and consists of this in a grey leather:
Now although I am not on a "strict" budget, there is a limit, and it is way lesss than a lot of guys on here. I have been trying to source bargain bits of kit as I go just to get me up and running, then upgrade as required depending upon how much use the room gets. So here is what I have going in there:
Denon AVR 1909 (£200 ex demo Billy Vee soundsystems)
Jamo 5.1 system (£70 feebay)
Samsung SPA400 720p PJ (£300 Richer sounds)
Xbox 360
Wii
5.8ghz AV Sender
Van Damme Blue 2.5mm
Mid range 10m Component & HDMI
I still need a PJ mount and electric screen. Im really looking for advise on both of these. As you can see the room is very narrow (200cm) Does anyone know of a good 16*9 screen i can get in there. Finding something with a case thats small enough whilst rtaining the screen size has been difficult!
So whats next? Well I have the plasterer coming in this week to skim the room. I wanted a dropped ceiling in there, but some guy wanted £1300 to do it which I thought was a bit steep? So i thought I'd try to run my cables to the speakers and PJ behind the coving. Has anyone done this before?
I will be getting a cooke and lewis kitchen cabinet and door for the office and installing this myself (id image some modification will be required), has anyone tried using a kitchen cabinet like this before?
So thats pretty much all i can think of right now, but I will be regularly updating this as i go over the next few weeks.
Criticsm happily recieved....
Here is some background to the project anyway. I bought my fisrt place a couple of years back, a small 2 bed flat in pretty bad condition. We had to do everything to it, but unfortunately didnt know much about running cables, which is a shame as i had the whole place rewired. I had a lodger living in a small double/large single back room, but he has moved out now, so it is all mine (oh and the mrs's).
The room is 2m * 3.75m and I am hoping to get a PJ in there. The room only has to do 2 things; Cinema and home office.
Here are some pics of the room when we first got the place. (apologies if i have uploaded them wrong, please let me know if I have to change it), as you can see, it was near enough derelict
Here is the room:
Here is the mrs cleaning up the old flooring ready for the oak floor to go down.
So we did a very quick job in here and rewired, chucked some paint up and stuck some flooring down. Two years on I am in the middle of stripping it again ready for the plasterer to get in. Here are some more pics for a better idea:
OK so that gives you an idea for what we have got to play with. Now the plan is to build something like this (excuse my 1st attempt of sketchup):
As you can see I am looking to utilise the alcove/wardrobe to creat a small desk area. This will be covered using a curtain.
The AV kit will sit inside the cupboard on the right, and will be cooled using case cooling along with some hefty vents in the side of the cupboard.
The PJ will be ceiling mounted and the screen will come down infront of the wardrobe/alcove (obviously i will not be using the office are whilt the PJ is on).
The seating will be placed infront of the window and consists of this in a grey leather:
Now although I am not on a "strict" budget, there is a limit, and it is way lesss than a lot of guys on here. I have been trying to source bargain bits of kit as I go just to get me up and running, then upgrade as required depending upon how much use the room gets. So here is what I have going in there:
Denon AVR 1909 (£200 ex demo Billy Vee soundsystems)
Jamo 5.1 system (£70 feebay)
Samsung SPA400 720p PJ (£300 Richer sounds)
Xbox 360
Wii
5.8ghz AV Sender
Van Damme Blue 2.5mm
Mid range 10m Component & HDMI
I still need a PJ mount and electric screen. Im really looking for advise on both of these. As you can see the room is very narrow (200cm) Does anyone know of a good 16*9 screen i can get in there. Finding something with a case thats small enough whilst rtaining the screen size has been difficult!
So whats next? Well I have the plasterer coming in this week to skim the room. I wanted a dropped ceiling in there, but some guy wanted £1300 to do it which I thought was a bit steep? So i thought I'd try to run my cables to the speakers and PJ behind the coving. Has anyone done this before?
I will be getting a cooke and lewis kitchen cabinet and door for the office and installing this myself (id image some modification will be required), has anyone tried using a kitchen cabinet like this before?
So thats pretty much all i can think of right now, but I will be regularly updating this as i go over the next few weeks.
Criticsm happily recieved....
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