The Family Living Room
The Agenda.
To Install a FullHD Home Cinema system discretely into the Family Living Room.
The Equipment
- 47" JVC 100Hz Full HD 1080P LCD HDTV - LT-47DV8
- Epson FullHD TW5800 LDP Projector with 5yr on site Warranty
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DVDO 1080P/24, HDMI 1.3 Video Scaler & Processor - DVDO EDGE
- SkyHD
- 2M Harkness Screens 16:9 Home-View Tab Tension Electric Screen
- Harkness Screens Motorised Projector Lift - SI-100
- Denon AVR4308A 7.1 AV Receiver
- Denon DVD2500T Blu Ray Transport Player
- Escient 1080P Upscaling Video Server
- Sonance 200W Cinema Ultra II (THX Certified) LCR In-Wall Speaker
- Sonance 200W Cinema Ultra II (THX Certified) Surround In-Wall Speaker (PAIR)
Before
After
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The property was neglected and so it was agreed for the entire room to get started from scratch, AV WOW removed all the plaster from the internal walls, carefully removed the picture rail and skirting boards for which were to be restored and reused.
Preparing the Room
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Due to blown plaster in the room, all the walls were stripped back to brick to check for damp and possible damages |
The ceiling was not in a very good condition, so this was pulled down for which was quicker than trying to repair the ceiling. |
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| To enable us to hide the projector a projector lift was to be installed for which we had to remove a section of the joist to allow the projector lift to be installed. | To hide the Speakers for this Cinema System, we opted for Sonance In-wall THX UltraII Certified Speakers, unfortunately this entire room was brick and so fake walls were erected to house the speakers. Each wall was double boarded with 12.5mm plaster board to reduce any vibrations from these monster speakers. |
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The Harkness Hall Tab Tensioned screen was located on the inside edge of the window bay, this location was chosen as the screen when down will just fit inside of the bay and when closed the screen follows the line of the ceiling for which was of high importance. |
The flooring in the property was the original floor boards for which were very drafty and not very good acoustically, we replaced the existing floor with 22mm Flooring board for which eliminates drafts and improves the acoustics of the room. |
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The lift was installed, adjusted and the plastered by a professional plastering company for whom plastered the entire room. |
You can see in this picture that the holes have been prepared for the Sonance THX Ultra II In- wall LCR Speakers, the screen has been recessed into the ceiling and the walls, ceiling have been plastered |