elgaz
Novice Member
Hi all,
My father is building a new house and it will have a 4000sq ft garage to the rear, in which there will be an upper level man cave and a dedicated cinema room. The cinema room will be rectangular, roughly 20ft x 12ft. He has no IT/AV knowledge or expertise so has kindly (!) left it in my hands to tell him what he needs for the cinema room.
We are literally starting with a blank page here so I'm trying to make a shortlist of everything that needs considered - I've searched through the forum extensively but there's a lot of information (some of it very specific) to take in.
Walls - joiner is planning on putting up typical stud walls, is there any particular material that's favoured for cinema room walls?
Seating - currently looking like 3 x rows of 3 seaters with each row being slighly elevated - typical cinema leather recliners with wedges between the seats
Lighting - ceiling spotlights & uplighters on walls, soft glow lighting around some recesses
Soundproofing all round - walls and ceiling, do we need to soundproof floor area too?
Floor covering - I assume carpet is best for noise purposes?
Projector - will be a decent ceiling mounted 4k model but I can research threads on here for this
Screen - the room won't be used for any other purpose so don't need a retractable screen or anything, looking at a large whitescreen which will be mounted to wall permanently
Input Devices - Dedicated enclosure at rear of room with the following devices - Sky box / Bluray&DVD Player / mini-PC / NAS Hard drive enclosure loaded with movies etc
Audio - I know very little about this but will research best speaker options on here.
Cabling - we will run CAT6, HDMI and all other cables from the input devices to projector.
I think those are the key areas above - have I missed anything obvious?
Thank you.
My father is building a new house and it will have a 4000sq ft garage to the rear, in which there will be an upper level man cave and a dedicated cinema room. The cinema room will be rectangular, roughly 20ft x 12ft. He has no IT/AV knowledge or expertise so has kindly (!) left it in my hands to tell him what he needs for the cinema room.
We are literally starting with a blank page here so I'm trying to make a shortlist of everything that needs considered - I've searched through the forum extensively but there's a lot of information (some of it very specific) to take in.
Walls - joiner is planning on putting up typical stud walls, is there any particular material that's favoured for cinema room walls?
Seating - currently looking like 3 x rows of 3 seaters with each row being slighly elevated - typical cinema leather recliners with wedges between the seats
Lighting - ceiling spotlights & uplighters on walls, soft glow lighting around some recesses
Soundproofing all round - walls and ceiling, do we need to soundproof floor area too?
Floor covering - I assume carpet is best for noise purposes?
Projector - will be a decent ceiling mounted 4k model but I can research threads on here for this
Screen - the room won't be used for any other purpose so don't need a retractable screen or anything, looking at a large whitescreen which will be mounted to wall permanently
Input Devices - Dedicated enclosure at rear of room with the following devices - Sky box / Bluray&DVD Player / mini-PC / NAS Hard drive enclosure loaded with movies etc
Audio - I know very little about this but will research best speaker options on here.
Cabling - we will run CAT6, HDMI and all other cables from the input devices to projector.
I think those are the key areas above - have I missed anything obvious?
Thank you.