I have been inspired. I recently married my girlfriend of 5 years and bought a house. The home was a model, so the garage is insolated, as well as heat and cooled.
As soon as we get done working on the bathrooms, We will begin converting our garage into a theater room. It will have one second duty. I am big into playing music, and I have a pro tools (home studio) system on my PC. My wife thought it would be good for me to locate everything out in the media room, so if I want to have friends over and jam, we'd have plenty of space.
Realistically, I see us beginning construction sometime in february or march. The plan is to build some walls. One just inside the garage door, which we will insulate. Inside this wall, we will make a closet, my computer workstation, the stereo rack, and dvd storage. We will then either make a fabric wall, or parts of another wall so that these will be built in, but concealed when not in use.
The next wall will be built on the other side of the room. This wall will close off the elevated section of the garage, where we will put an external door, thus creating a "mud room" where our washer/dryer and water heater are located. To save room/ maximize space, we are looking at installing a double pocket door along this wall. That way, when doing laundry, it wont make people feel claustrophobic. We are going to have to figure out a solution for this, as I believe pocket doors probably are not the best acoustical option.
Anyways, I have built a visio diagram of what we will be creating. I lost the battle of the TV, so my 46' toshiba RPTV will be in the garage for cable TV, and I have a sanyo PLZ-3 for games and movies, which we will pull down a screen in front of the TV to watch.
Please offer suggestions, opinions or things I should consider to optimize the room.
Thanks!
As soon as we get done working on the bathrooms, We will begin converting our garage into a theater room. It will have one second duty. I am big into playing music, and I have a pro tools (home studio) system on my PC. My wife thought it would be good for me to locate everything out in the media room, so if I want to have friends over and jam, we'd have plenty of space.
Realistically, I see us beginning construction sometime in february or march. The plan is to build some walls. One just inside the garage door, which we will insulate. Inside this wall, we will make a closet, my computer workstation, the stereo rack, and dvd storage. We will then either make a fabric wall, or parts of another wall so that these will be built in, but concealed when not in use.
The next wall will be built on the other side of the room. This wall will close off the elevated section of the garage, where we will put an external door, thus creating a "mud room" where our washer/dryer and water heater are located. To save room/ maximize space, we are looking at installing a double pocket door along this wall. That way, when doing laundry, it wont make people feel claustrophobic. We are going to have to figure out a solution for this, as I believe pocket doors probably are not the best acoustical option.
Anyways, I have built a visio diagram of what we will be creating. I lost the battle of the TV, so my 46' toshiba RPTV will be in the garage for cable TV, and I have a sanyo PLZ-3 for games and movies, which we will pull down a screen in front of the TV to watch.
Please offer suggestions, opinions or things I should consider to optimize the room.
Thanks!
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