Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater New Pictures of my HT/Recroom area. Finally!!!!

Nice, that area looks a whole lot nicer now that you have expanded it into a big room.

Gives me something to look forward to when I get a home...in the near future.

Randy - great room! I was going to post pictures of my room soon, but it isn't nearly as nice as yours.

Ray

Thanks so much everyone for your nice comments. Hmmmm Wid, I'll have to think about that, I'm sure my boss would not care.

In regards to the chairs, yes they are very comfortable. They are nicer hi-end Lazy Boys we got a few months back during a big sale locally. The couch is a Lane Eddie Bauer edition, it has built in recliners as well. For 2.35 movies that take up the full screen, I actually enjoy sitting in the back row, so my eyes don't have to dart back/forth as much. The front row is ok, but best for 1.85 movies.

Dave, yes, the center is my next project, besides the HTPC I want to build. I've thought about attaching it to the walls below the screen, however, my exterior walls do not have framing. They are the Ice Block foam form foundation that many are going with these days. I suppose I could use some anchors or something. I might just get a nice little stand or something.

Another option is that my wife would like a regular tv down there in case she wants to watch the news or whatever and doesn't want to use the 120" wide screen. I was thinking there should be enough room to put a TV below the screen, and set the center on top of the TV?

I really need a better camera, maybe I can borrow my dads digital, it is much better. It is so hard to take pictures in the HT area since the walls are so dark. I even had the canned lights on during the picture taking, oh well...

Try putting the camera on a stable surface and turn down the shutter speed on your camera...if you can do that with yours. Turning off the flash when you do that will help make the picture more uniform.

Actually, most cameras cameras will automatically slow down the shutter speed if you turn off the flash. Turning on the flash makes the camera change the shutter speed to a faster speed because it is expecting everything to be brighter. In my experience I try to plant the camera in a nice, solid place, then turn the shutter speed to a slow rate, turn the flash off, and pictures come out a lot better with that.

Some digital cameras are really annoying though. Throwing them against the wall doesnt usually help...tried that once with my old one...

Dan, I forgot all about that, I do have some settings on this digital camera for darker shots. The camera is about 5 yrs old, it is a Casio Digital camara that was top of the line it its day.

Yea, I had a camera my G-parents gave me for 8th grade graduation...like..5 years ago. It has now donned the "Its ok to get fish guts on me during fishing trips" status.

Randy
Nice work! The room looks perfect. I wish I had a dedicated place to build the HT. Of course it would be for everybody else not me, since I'm more into the music thing. Do you think I could sell that the the wife?
oz

Sure as heck puts my postage stamp theater to shame.

I'm still waiting to see them pics Peter.