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I've seen a lot of insanely priced screens with special materials and paint and such. How does a white wall compare? Are you using special paint? I want to make a projector room as well but several hundred dollars on a screen seems unnecessary.
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Aaron, the game is at 5:30 on Feb 1 i believe. Will let you know what time the party starts, but probably like 4ish. We will have beer, and a main food dish. Askinv if everyone else can just bring something to share, whether it food, pop, kush, or what was that stuff we used to eat back in the day...
Andrew, my buddy has this same projector and just projects it onto his off-white wall and it looks fine to me. He has a screen he bought, but once he saw it just projected on his wall he decided not to install a screen. However here is what i will be doing. http://www.projectorcentral.com/paint_perfect_screen_$100.htm |
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I'll bring da kush
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Small update. First pass taping/mudding done. They still think by the end of the weekend the room will be "ready for carpet" which I think means all the way done through paint. Seems aggressive but I suppose time will tell.
Also I picked up a new Sony smart Blu-ray player with 3D/WiFi. That way this whole setup can be like a smart TV with Netflix and what not. Also grabbed an Amazon 50 mile range OTA Antenna from Aaron. Damn, I hooked it up to where our cable splitters are in the furnace room, so it's now feeding all of our cable jacks except two. I had 5 TV's on at once last night, all feeding from this one antenna (which is in a far less than ideal mounting position to receive a signal) and everything is working awesome! Just bought another one today for my dad. |
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Glad that shit worked out.
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Looks good dude! Yea that stuff goes quick if you have a team of people working on it.
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ASR Remodel. They have a few vids on youtube.
He is former military, went through the same school program I did in the military, just several years before me lol. Got out and became an automation engineer (also like me) and eventually decided to just start working for himself and doing this as he got older. He went to school to get certified in electrical (NEC) and HVAC, so he actually holds legit certs, not just some guy who read the rules online. So he is no dummy, and had the ability in my opinion to not just finish the room in a basic sense, but to see it all the way through from telling me what to do for sound proofing, mouting in cieling speakers, running all the low voltage wirinv, mouting the components, create a screen, etc because he has a technical backround. Literally seeing it all the way through from studs to surround sound. Real nice and cool guy, couldnt be happier with him. If anyone wants his contact info let me know. He's also in the middle of doing a complete interior revamp of some big baller house in Chanhassen he keeps wanting me to come see. |
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Everythings been sanded. Knock down applied to ceiling. First coat of paint up. Super Bowl is days away, gunna be close! SB party still happening whether it's done or not though!!
Also not sure if I mentioned already, but we picked out the carpet. Super nice stuff and also got top of the line padding for it! http://www.caldwellcarpet.com/images...Cheesecake.jpg |
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Does the carpet match the drapes though?
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red in the head, fire in the hole!
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I suppose I can add something to this thread now. We sold our house and are in the process of moving to Champlin. We picked up a house from a flipper that did a crappy job, but put in a lot of nice items, like granite countertops, tons of tile work and all new carpet. The bad part is that they went cheap on a lot of things, and did a crappy job on others.
In the living room/kitchen area, they went open concept and removed some walls and cabinets. Unfortunately they just patched the popcorn ceiling and it looked like ass. Fortunately, I've been wanting to get rid of the popcorn anyway, so before we move our stuff in this weekend, I scraped all the popcorn, repaired the sheetrock underneath, and am filling in the previous light fixture holes for all recessed LED lighting. The ceiling will be knockdown with thick crown molding to follow this summer. Oh yeah, it's got a bigger 3-car garage then our old house and room for toys behind it. On to the starting pics. |
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Nice!!
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Update.
Painting done. Walls are a deep crimson color, ceiling is a semi-dark tan. In ceiling speakers are installed. Projector is mounted (wiring to be cleaned up and the pass through gland for the signal cables still needs to be installed). Wife and I sat there for quite awhile today to figure out what size to set the screen to and we ended up leaving it at 106". Looks awesome, and right now it's just being projected onto the crimson wall lol. Can't wait to see what it'll look like once the screen is painted. All electrical done (i.e. sconces installed, all outlets done, dimmer switches done). I must say I think we nailed it with the lighting, especially those sconces, they look phenominal. I think that's about it for now. Tomorrow we will be painting the screen. Coat of primer, and then probably 2 coats of the Sherwin Williams paint I linked to earlier. Not sure what else he has planned for tomorrow, but here's what I see is left. Finish up low voltage stuff, install wood trim, build and install wood counter top (he said the bar top won't be done by super bowl unfortunately), carpet (scheduled for Friday), then basically just move all the components into the room and clean the shit out of everything because of all the dust that's been created. Also we picked up a couple sweet power reclining seating from Dock 86 Saturday. It's going to be a tight fit for them to fit in the room, so we'll see. If they don't fit right, we have 7 days from delivery to return them. Hopefully they work out though! They will be delivered Saturday. Pics! |
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Looks amazing.
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Nice
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Looks really nice. Agreed, you nailed the lighting.
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Looks good B-man. Love those recliners, I need to find some of those as well.
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Looks great! That projector is a lot bigger in size than I thought it would be.
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Excellent job! I can't wait to check this out.
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Peemp, can't wait to break dem in!
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Screen is painted. Used 2 coats of SW Primer, then just did 1 coat of the Pro Classic Enamel. Looks great, albeit not as great as the link I posted made it out to be. Probably more my fault, it's not a silky smooth finish like how it looks on trim. Looks kind of like typical wall texture. But whatever it was $20 total or something and looks awesome to me!
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Looking good!
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99% Done! Only thing left is to mount the frame for around the screen, put the cold air return face back on, put the sealer on trim and bar top (hence the table clothes on the bar top), and then figure out these couches. They are power reclining but acting kind of funny. What we also found out is the longer wedge piece is Bluetooth capable, the center cushion folds down and has all sorts of functions. It also has a "thumper" speaker under it that will thump with the bass of a movie. So gotta get that all figured out.
Watched our first movie tonight, just a DVD (not Blu-Ray) and it looked and sounded so f-ing awesome. We used the receivers built in auto-tune feature, but I still think I'm going to pay for a professional calibration for both the sound and projector (under $200 so why not after what we already dropped on the whole setup). More pics, sorry it was actually pretty dark in there so the pics didn't turn out that great. Again all I can say is so f-ing happy with how it all turned out!!!!!!!! |
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Looks awesome!
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Watched our first Blu-Ray on it last night, we had Avatar sitting around so popped it in. Love it, so crazy that it can be so clear with that large of a screen, from a projector, projecting on a painted wall. Still super satisfied with everything.
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Brandon that turn out great! Thanks for sharing.
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No vibrations from the projector from all dat baaaaaaaazzzzz?
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The music in that video is hilarious, bumpin those beats
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Ya-mon
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looks great
if you want to go to a screen over the painted wall https://www.k-bid.com/auction/4669/item/3 |
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He painted so he didn't have to buy a screen.....
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I'm 100% satisfied with my painted screen, the picture is phenominal! Avatar and Transformers on Blu-ray were ridiculous. 106" of crystal clear picture, you'd never know it was merely rolled on paint on the wall.
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^jigga speaks da troof!!
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So this is happening. Made the down payment and plans got approved by the community association today.
We'll go from a 10x10 basic deck off the main floor with no lower-level landscaping to a 12x14 deck off the main floor, partially maintenance-free railings, stairs down to the lower level, 12x12 paver patio under the deck, another 16x14 paver patio next to that, "floating" built-in bench made of maintenance-free decking, elevated planter made of the same maintenance-free decking, and associated landscaping. We might add some deck lighting and landscape lighting into the mix too, but we're not sure. We'll have more space than furniture, so we'll also get an outdoor table and chairs, more outdoor lounge seating, and I'm campaigning for a propane fire pit. I'll have to take some before and after pics. http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/g...psbphlwfwo.jpg |
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Man I forgot about this thread! I have a few garage-related updates...I'll start with my own in-the-city/ghetto garage mods update. After installing the heater I got to thinking, what if I could fit 3 cars in there? A few people said hell no, some said hell yes, I said game on.
Got a little crazy and started ripping out the epic 16x4' workbench that my dad and I built when I first moved in almost 10 years ago. This workbench is HUGE and it has been amazing as I have hosted newb mod days, done motor swaps, clutch jobs, countless short shifter and lowering-spring installs, brake jobs etc etc etc over the years. But these days, it turned into storage space. I opted instead to install a bunch of extra shelving all around the garage and give this thing the axe: http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...8814.sized.jpg Turbo helped (as there was mice running around last fall): http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...8818.sized.jpg Under the main bench base/riser, can you tell this is a dsm'ers garage? http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...8819.sized.jpg Kablamo: http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...8820.sized.jpg Ready to make new shelving now: http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...8821.sized.jpg Spazzy looking on in disbelief. He's sure I've lost my mind. http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...6_09_06_PM.jpg Shelving up: http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...6_08_20_PM.jpg Now time to rip apart the rest of the workbench :( http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...8969.sized.jpg I cut about 15" off the back the long way, little more mangeable size: http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...8970.sized.jpg Starting to rearrange: http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...8973.sized.jpg I made brackets for all kinds of stuff. I made brackets for brackets. Anything I could do to get stuff off of the ground: jackstands, engine hoist parts, engine stand, funnels, etc: http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...8974.sized.jpg Installed S-AFC...you know for better AFRs.... http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...8979.sized.jpg And finally...SO MUCH ROOM FOR ACTIVITIES!!! http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...6_02_19_PM.jpg So, the X lived elsewhere for the winter, but I just got it back and finally with a little bit of touch-ups...not perfect yet but aww yea my dreams have come to fruition: http://www.scheides.com/albums/house...6_03_42_PM.jpg |
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^That is fricken awesome!!
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