Andyos
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Like many people over the course of the 2020 lockdown we (and especially the kids) were bored and decided to setup a cinema room in our spare/junk room in the attic space.
The room itself was built as habitable space when we built the house so with shops largely closed we turned to Amazon and ended up with a 100" 16:9 drop down screen coupled with an Epson TW650 projector. Sound was provided by a very old Denon 1902 and a set of Tannoy FX 5.1 speakers left over from the previous house move....
We found pretty quickly that the room whilst a proper room and not an attic still had some drawbacks. Firstly having four Velux windows meant we were limited initially to nighttime viewing, this was solved relatively easily by adding blackout blinds which worked well. Everyone loved the whole cinema experience but again the room itself had more drawbacks - it was on the second floor which was directly above two of the children's bedrooms, which meant nighttime viewing had to be limited to before the kids bedtime but also running up and down two sets of stairs for drinks and snacks started to lose it's initial fitness benefit draw....
Fast forward to early 2021 and we made the decision to convert our attached 6m x 6m double garage by splitting it into three spaces - straight down the middle with a lounge on one side and cinema and laundry on the other....in an ideal world the cinema would have been the lounge to get the maximum space but it means the internal dimensions of the cinema room will be 3m x 4.3m.
The garage roller shutter door is being left in place and the builders will be putting up a false wall on the inside. Flooring will be a floating floor that brings the garage floor level up to the same level as the adjoining kitchen and a false ceiling will be put up even though the current garage ceiling is plasterboard there is an RSJ going the "wrong" way across the centre of the garage.
We won't be applying any specific soundproofing other than boat loads of rock wool as the room above the garage is our bedroom so not bothered about any sound leakage. Building work starts next week on the internals, the garage rear access door has been replaced by French doors for the lounge side and Building Control wanted a small window in the cinema side for ventilation and fire escape.
So on to the interesting stuff, for now we are keeping the Epson TW650 projector - despite rock bottom pricing it provides a pretty decent 1080p image. I am repurposing a Sony STR-DN850 7.1 amp from the current lounge and have bought 7 Fisual HC-LCR in wall speakers from AVOnline after discussing options with @ShanePJ - service and advice was excellent and the speakers arrived next day. The decision to use the same in-walls all round was based on the HC-LCR only needing 72mm mounting depth. I have a choice of two subs to use initially, the one that came with the Tannoy FX5.1 package or an older Mission MS8 sub....any thoughts on which would be better? I appreciate either will probably need to be upgraded longer term.
I intend to cable out for a full 7.1.4 with 4 Atmos ceiling speakers to cater for future upgrades in the receiver but for now the 7.1 should provide enough. I'm also planning to have a go at doing a DIY AT projector screen to take advantage of the in-wall speakers. Looking at room dimensions with 3m wide and the main seating position at approximately 2.7M (there will be a second, raised row behind this for the kids) I think that a 110" screen with 2" border will fit well....I'll probably get the joiners to knock up the frame and I'll use two layers of Lycra, black base and matt white for the screen.
The room itself will have pretty much free reign on colour scheme so I'm looking for recommendations please on wall and ceiling colours that don't make the room look like a giant chalkboard The carpet will be grey/silver but will have the option of a dark rug up in front of the seating position.
Anyway, enough waffle, I know that you only really want to see pics so I will try and get cracking with the camera over the next few days. Thanks in advance for any interest, Andy
The room itself was built as habitable space when we built the house so with shops largely closed we turned to Amazon and ended up with a 100" 16:9 drop down screen coupled with an Epson TW650 projector. Sound was provided by a very old Denon 1902 and a set of Tannoy FX 5.1 speakers left over from the previous house move....
We found pretty quickly that the room whilst a proper room and not an attic still had some drawbacks. Firstly having four Velux windows meant we were limited initially to nighttime viewing, this was solved relatively easily by adding blackout blinds which worked well. Everyone loved the whole cinema experience but again the room itself had more drawbacks - it was on the second floor which was directly above two of the children's bedrooms, which meant nighttime viewing had to be limited to before the kids bedtime but also running up and down two sets of stairs for drinks and snacks started to lose it's initial fitness benefit draw....
Fast forward to early 2021 and we made the decision to convert our attached 6m x 6m double garage by splitting it into three spaces - straight down the middle with a lounge on one side and cinema and laundry on the other....in an ideal world the cinema would have been the lounge to get the maximum space but it means the internal dimensions of the cinema room will be 3m x 4.3m.
The garage roller shutter door is being left in place and the builders will be putting up a false wall on the inside. Flooring will be a floating floor that brings the garage floor level up to the same level as the adjoining kitchen and a false ceiling will be put up even though the current garage ceiling is plasterboard there is an RSJ going the "wrong" way across the centre of the garage.
We won't be applying any specific soundproofing other than boat loads of rock wool as the room above the garage is our bedroom so not bothered about any sound leakage. Building work starts next week on the internals, the garage rear access door has been replaced by French doors for the lounge side and Building Control wanted a small window in the cinema side for ventilation and fire escape.
So on to the interesting stuff, for now we are keeping the Epson TW650 projector - despite rock bottom pricing it provides a pretty decent 1080p image. I am repurposing a Sony STR-DN850 7.1 amp from the current lounge and have bought 7 Fisual HC-LCR in wall speakers from AVOnline after discussing options with @ShanePJ - service and advice was excellent and the speakers arrived next day. The decision to use the same in-walls all round was based on the HC-LCR only needing 72mm mounting depth. I have a choice of two subs to use initially, the one that came with the Tannoy FX5.1 package or an older Mission MS8 sub....any thoughts on which would be better? I appreciate either will probably need to be upgraded longer term.
I intend to cable out for a full 7.1.4 with 4 Atmos ceiling speakers to cater for future upgrades in the receiver but for now the 7.1 should provide enough. I'm also planning to have a go at doing a DIY AT projector screen to take advantage of the in-wall speakers. Looking at room dimensions with 3m wide and the main seating position at approximately 2.7M (there will be a second, raised row behind this for the kids) I think that a 110" screen with 2" border will fit well....I'll probably get the joiners to knock up the frame and I'll use two layers of Lycra, black base and matt white for the screen.
The room itself will have pretty much free reign on colour scheme so I'm looking for recommendations please on wall and ceiling colours that don't make the room look like a giant chalkboard The carpet will be grey/silver but will have the option of a dark rug up in front of the seating position.
Anyway, enough waffle, I know that you only really want to see pics so I will try and get cracking with the camera over the next few days. Thanks in advance for any interest, Andy