In my first two posts I talked about the evolution of my tiny theater room from a dirt plot to a rooms with real walls and drywall installed. Now I'll talk about the final touches that made this space into the tiny theater it is today.
After the drywall went up and my neighbor Jim finished up the paint, which turned out great in my opinion, things really started moving.
It took me a couple of weeks to get carpet picked up and installed. The walls are a deep blue color in an eggshell finish as to not be too reflective.
The raised part of the ceiling is a matte black paint as to not reflect light when the projector is on and the lights in the room are dimmed.
Me and a friend crafted up a riser so I could have the carpet dude cover it when they came to install the carpet for the rest of the room. I read up quite a bit on how tall to make the risers and how to position the couches to insure good lines of sites for all our seats. I'll talk more about the layout of the room in a future post.
This shows some more of the wall plates and the carpeted risers. I ran two USB cables in the wall to come out right by the couch so I can use USB Xbox accessories. Like the racing wheel as well as the wired USB mic for RockBand4. Me and my pals like to get together every once and a while and have RockBand Jam sessions.
This shot shows the speaker wall plates and the locations of where all the surround speakers would end up taking residence. The two couches are lines up and the back row is on it's riser. I was quite pleased how they turned out. I feel I made the most of the tiny space I had. Full sized couches would fit and still leave enough room to walk around.
This shot shows the speaker wall plates and the surround speakers in their final location. The molding around the door wasn't put on for several more months. Took me a while to find some I liked and even more time before I actually installed it. You can see my electronic dart board that arrived in the middle of this project. I'll talk about it more in a future post as it warrants some more detail.
This is the final layout with the screen, curtains, couches all settled in. The theater stayed in this state for a several months and brought me many months of enjoyment.
Phase 6: Lights, Memorabilia, Automation Late 2019-Mid 2020
Over the next few months I installed some track lights on the ceiling to light up my movie posters. It took some trial and error to get the right bulbs. Some were just two bright to light up posters, but I eventually found some LED bulbs on amazon with a 40 degree angle that worked out perfectly.
This is a shot of the posters lit up with the final LED bulbs. Just enough light to highlight each poster.
This is my Raiders of the the Lost Ark corner. I was super pumped to receive a fertility idol from the beginning of Raiders for Christmas last year.
I have a whole wall for dedicated to The Shining, if you are a fan of the movie you will get it. If not it will just seem like random wall art other than the movie poster. You can see the top of my lil' pup popcorn machine. Which is great for two people. I'll get into the gear that powers the theater room in a future post including Lil Pup.
This is the rear corner of the room with some more posters and decent view of the track lights.
For my birthday this year I received nano leaf light panels. They have a setting that reacts to music with really makes watching music videos come alive.
Also, my partner in crime in the tiny theater room, my daughter Molly, highly recommends the video for Boyfriend by Mabel. I have to agree, it's a banger. Check it out with the nano leaf lights below.
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