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Correction. An average human sitting idle gives off about 440 BTU at about 125 watts of power an hour.

My odd number above (3500 BTU) was when I was factoring out 8 people sitting in my theater for an hour and I forgot to divide by 8 again.

As a suggestion, could you use a portable air conditioner in that room? Provided you could vent it properly.

What are you using for projector and is there any lens in front of it?

Thanks for all that sound insulation advice. Lots to take in and I am trying to stay inexpensive so I will do my best with it all.

Sorry my facebook privacy settings don't allow the pics to show. Not going to change those settings though. Is there another way to post and share pics on this site?

Also I am looking for seating. Trying stay inexpensive as well of course. My hopes are to find reclining love seats or couches but with cup holders. Most of the seats I am seeing all have dividers in them. I have a lot of couples over the house and usually the ladies complain about the separation of the chairs. Any options anyone knows of that are recommended?

My room isn't exactly square. At the largest lenth and width it is 18x18 but the entry of the room is bumped in about 4 feet on one side of the room making that side of the room 18x14. I am not sure how to get a picture of the room posted here. I have a floorplan but the only way I can see to upload pics is to load to facebook first but I have privacy settings I am not willing to change. Maybe there is another site I can try?

Photobucket works.

Usually cupholders means dividers. I've never seen a sofa with cupholders just on the ends. If you find one I'd be curious to see it too. Hopefully you find it in leather.

Other Options maybe:

Coffee table
End table
Serving tray on ottoman
Sofa table behind couch to put drinks on

I remember reading somewhere that if you can afford the loss of space that 2 separate walls with no plates shared is the best....and then I thought what a lot of work/expense/space...

I was designing a video conference space for my employer and needed sound control. I called an engineering firm that was owned by a grad of the university I worked for, and he mentioned extremes of sound cladding all ventilation ducts and runs - both inside and out.

That is serious work

Here are the theater seats that I got. About as inexpensive as you can get. I set mine up with a loveseat option in the middle, but they could have loveseats on the sides (like 2 loveseats connected), or just like a couch with 4 reclining seats and cup holders on the ends. Now if I could just remember the company that sold them.





Found it. Seatcraft Eros seats. Pretty much all of the companies that sell it are really the same company with different names/websites.

They are about as cheap as you can get for reclining theater seats. They are NOT leather, but have held up really well even with a cat and small dog.

Best seats out there? Heck no. There are many times that I wish I would have spent another $1000 on seats with higher backs and longer footrests, but they do fine for a 2 hour movie. Problem is, in order to remove an armrest, it actually costs more money. You are looking at about $1500 for a "couch" layout of 4 seats (a little over $1400 after their 6% discount that they ALWAYS seem to have). That does, however, include free freight shipping to your driveway. You can pay for delivery and setup in your house with any of the stuff from those places.

Great I'll check those those out!