arf005
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To cut a long story short - our only upstairs bedroom in our detached bungalow, up here in Aberdeenshire - Scotland, sits above one of the (two) extensions. Here's how we changed it into our home cinema Den.....
The room used to look like this, taken before we bought the house....
The wardrobe went through a bit of a change, here's how.....
Click on these pics if you want the bigger picture.....
We then added the speakers, front.........rear.........and here's the Sub...
Here's a dodgy panorama.......
Here's a better panorama......click on the thumbnail if you want a bigger picture....
Our rack components have recently been upgraded.....
From this.....
To this........
Behind our rack looks like this.....
The beauty of it being the only upstairs room is I have access behind the walls!! All cables are ran behind and terminated onto small wall mounted plates - seen here.....
So, kit components are....
Rotel RDV-1060 DVD-A Player
Rotel RSX-1067 7x100W Receiver
B&W CM4's and CMC up front
B&W 601 S2's (and CC6 S2, now fitted) at the rear
JPW SW-40 active sub doing the LFE
Sony 32" wide flat crt
Panasonic VCR and PS2 both able to speak through the RSX-1067
LED's and lots of lava lamps (including an original from the 60's)
....and a fridge full of lovely chilled Stella - essential to the room!!
More info - the dvd player and receiver are fed from a dedicated 32A rcbo and 6mm spur into unswitched sockets, which keeps them away from the electrically 'noisy' fridge.
As I mentioned speakers too are wired round the room behind the walls, so all you see are the short runs from the speaker terminals to the face plates on the wall.....behind which I've soldered speaker cables and ran them round to the corner where the rack is....
Going back to the recess - the fridge, led's and lava lamps in the old wardrobe are all hard wired behind the walls, and controlled by switches just on the inside of the recess. So no ugly cables running everywhere!
The led's are split onto two circuits so you can have all, half, or none, and both lava lamps are switched together.
And that's about it......phew!
It was a fun project to complete, and we're quite chuffed with our efforts....
For the future we've our eye on a projector and screen, Infocus 4805 has been tested and we're happy with the results.....*update*......as you can see later in the thread we decided not to go for a projector, mainly because of the ceiling, and those velux windows......
But there's also a dedicated stereo for the lounge to buy too.....we're thinking Naim and B&W.....just got to keep saving......although those Rotel boxes didn't help.......
Ah well, dedicated rcbo and 10mm spur is ready and waiting......
Cheers,
Ali
The room used to look like this, taken before we bought the house....
The wardrobe went through a bit of a change, here's how.....
Click on these pics if you want the bigger picture.....
We then added the speakers, front.........rear.........and here's the Sub...
Here's a dodgy panorama.......
Here's a better panorama......click on the thumbnail if you want a bigger picture....
Our rack components have recently been upgraded.....
From this.....
To this........
Behind our rack looks like this.....
The beauty of it being the only upstairs room is I have access behind the walls!! All cables are ran behind and terminated onto small wall mounted plates - seen here.....
So, kit components are....
Rotel RDV-1060 DVD-A Player
Rotel RSX-1067 7x100W Receiver
B&W CM4's and CMC up front
B&W 601 S2's (and CC6 S2, now fitted) at the rear
JPW SW-40 active sub doing the LFE
Sony 32" wide flat crt
Panasonic VCR and PS2 both able to speak through the RSX-1067
LED's and lots of lava lamps (including an original from the 60's)
....and a fridge full of lovely chilled Stella - essential to the room!!
More info - the dvd player and receiver are fed from a dedicated 32A rcbo and 6mm spur into unswitched sockets, which keeps them away from the electrically 'noisy' fridge.
As I mentioned speakers too are wired round the room behind the walls, so all you see are the short runs from the speaker terminals to the face plates on the wall.....behind which I've soldered speaker cables and ran them round to the corner where the rack is....
Going back to the recess - the fridge, led's and lava lamps in the old wardrobe are all hard wired behind the walls, and controlled by switches just on the inside of the recess. So no ugly cables running everywhere!
The led's are split onto two circuits so you can have all, half, or none, and both lava lamps are switched together.
And that's about it......phew!
It was a fun project to complete, and we're quite chuffed with our efforts....
For the future we've our eye on a projector and screen, Infocus 4805 has been tested and we're happy with the results.....*update*......as you can see later in the thread we decided not to go for a projector, mainly because of the ceiling, and those velux windows......
But there's also a dedicated stereo for the lounge to buy too.....we're thinking Naim and B&W.....just got to keep saving......although those Rotel boxes didn't help.......
Ah well, dedicated rcbo and 10mm spur is ready and waiting......
Cheers,
Ali