 Filed Under: Pro Interiors $$$ Traditional Posted Wed Feb 20, 2008, 4:25 PM ET — By Blake Jochum
An installer tackles his own home, including the attic. I get control over all the electronics, and she gets control of everything else. That's the deal we made with each other at the beginning of the project. After all, being the manager of the residential systems division and lead residential systems designer at All Pro Sound, would you expect me to not do something special in my own home? After 17 plus years of doing it for everyone else, I was getting to do it for me . . . and Laura, my wife. Filed Under: Reader Interiors Traditional $$ Posted Mon Nov 5, 2007, 4:15 PM ET — By Bill Yung
A reader finds home theater inspiration in his first theater, giving him the craving to upgrade. As is the case for many others, the motivation for our theater was our previous theater, which was barely 12 feet by 14 feet with a ceiling less than 8 feet high. While constricted by the physical dimensions of the space, this theater was enough to get me hooked on the idea of owning a home theater and brought to light the many possible shortcomings and pitfalls of building one. Filed Under: $$ Reader Interiors Traditional Posted Mon Oct 22, 2007, 2:37 PM ET — By Ruben Ortiz
This homeowner takes DIY to another level. I fell in love with movie theaters after my first outing—to see Star Wars as a kid in the '70s. Since then, the moviegoing experience has fascinated me every time. Ten years ago, my wife and I purchased our first house. Not knowing much about home theaters, we built a modest movie theater. Because of the odd shape of that particular home, a professional installation was not going to work. Consequently, we settled for a projector and a wall with some theater decorations. Filed Under: $$ Pro Interiors Traditional Posted Wed Oct 17, 2007, 2:45 AM ET — By Richard Charschan
The finished theater, and my dream recording studio. What an amazing adventure. Starting with a design, cement, and sheetrock, we have come a long way and now have a beautiful theater. It's almost time to roll out the red carpet for the premier of the AcousticSmart showroom theater—after we take care of a few final touches. Filed Under: $$ Pro Interiors Traditional Posted Mon Oct 15, 2007, 2:09 PM ET — By Richard Charschan
It looks like our Sheetrock Theater is now complete. We overcame many challenges, and the theater is finally roughed out. Most of the heavy lifting is behind us, and we can look forward to putting on the finishing touches that will turn this space into the room of our dreams. With the platforms, lighting, walls, and wiring in place, you can start to really visualize this space as a theater. Filed Under: Pro Interiors $$ Traditional Posted Mon Oct 8, 2007, 12:45 PM ET — By Krissy Rushing and Richard Charschan
A step-by-step journey of transforming a garage into a world-class home theater. You've heard of do-it-yourselfers. In fact, you've probably seen them featured on the pages of Audio Video Interiors. But Richard Charschan has something on them—he's a pro. The president of AcousticSmart—a family-owned company that specializes in the design and fabrication of acoustically treated custom home theater interiors and home theater seating—Charschan has gone without a dedicated space of his own for quite some time now. "It's like the shoemaker who has holes in his own shoes," he says. "I wanted something that would serve as a corporate showroom, as well as be a great addition for me and my family." This multi-part column will take you, the reader, from beginning to end pictorially, helping you understand visually how a pro installs his own home theater. Filed Under: $$ Reader Interiors Traditional Posted Wed Oct 3, 2007, 1:11 PM ET — By Grant and Cathy Ovsak
How we transformed our room from Brady Bunch shag to old-Hollywood glamour. Eight years ago, we were in the market for a home that was a little outdated but in a good school district. The home we wound up buying included a "party room" that had been featured in a well-known home-decorating magazine. "Wow, this one might have potential," we thought. Filed Under: $$$ Pro Interiors Traditional Posted Wed Sep 26, 2007, 11:40 AM ET — By Krissy Rushing
An attic home theater, completely isolated from the master bedroom below, defies the laws of acoustics. Looking at the images on these pages, most people would think that this extravagant theater in an 8,000-square-foot home in Houston, Texas, was built from scratch with brand-spanking-new, top-of-the-line equipment and under the most ideal conditions. Not so. In fact, this gorgeous residential theater was not only built using primarily the homeowner's preexisting equipment, but it was built in the only room available for the theater in the home: the attic.
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Filed Under: Traditional $$$ Pro Interiors Posted Tue Sep 11, 2007, 9:28 AM ET — By Krissy Rushing
With a wholehouse Crestron automation system that controls everything from security to the dedicated theater, this home takes control to another level. Jay Basen and Lance David—programming manager and director of custom sales and installation, respectively, of Gramophone in Timonium, Maryland—see several new trends developing in the home theater market. The first is that more and more homeowners are not only putting dedicated home theaters into their homes, but they're putting in more advanced home theaters. "Many more options are available or are coming out. We now have access to new high-definition content, and price points are coming down. These factors, combined with the sophistication of customers, are driving high performance," says Basen. According to David, homeowners are now recognizing the value of systems integration with a centralized control system, and they're paying more attention to acoustics, as well as the less sexy but still very important aspects of proper ventilation and energy management. This gorgeous theater and wholehouse system in a 16,000-square-foot home in Highland, Maryland, embodies all of these growing trends.
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Filed Under: $$$ Pro Interiors Traditional Posted Wed Sep 5, 2007, 11:28 AM ET
An all-McIntosh system is the apple of this homeowner's eye—and ears. A room has to be pretty impressive for the president of one of the leading high-end A/V companies to declare it "one of the best-sounding rooms in the U.S." That's what McIntosh Labs president Charlie Randall said about Donna and Ivan Messer's McIntoshed-out home theater in Parkland, Florida. When Messer got in touch with Alan Fromowitz, president of Stereo by Design in Pompano Beach, Florida, his home theater habit quickly escalated. "We put the bug in his ear to upgrade to the McIntosh XRT2K speaker system," says Fromowitz.
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Filed Under: Reader Interiors $$ Traditional Posted Wed Aug 29, 2007, 2:00 AM ET — By Charles Bloom
Everything I needed was online. For several years, my wife and I talked about buying or building a new house in Pinecrest, Florida, near the house that I grew up in. As luck would have it, the house next door to the one I grew up in came up for sale at a very reasonable price, so we purchased it, tore it down, and began planning our new home. I knew from the start that a dedicated home theater would be included, but I had no experience in designing or building one. Fortunately, there is a universe of information available on the Internet. I found a fantastic resource, www.avsforum.com, where a mixture of amateurs and professionals share their audio/video/theater-building expertise free of charge. Filed Under: Pro Interiors $$$ Traditional Staff Picks Posted Wed Aug 29, 2007, 1:56 AM ET — By Krissy Rushing
How to fit 10 seats in a small room and still get amazing sound. Aspiration and enthusiasm are two of the key things that make a great magazine reader. While many of us read magazines like GQ or Vogue, a lot of us can't necessarily afford the wares we see on those fashionable pages. Why do we read them, then? We read them because we take cues from these highly regarded magazines on what to wear, social issues, trends, and more. We take those cues and we adapt them to our own personal lifestyles, as well as our budgets. Filed Under: Pro Interiors $$$ Traditional Posted Wed Aug 29, 2007, 1:31 AM ET — By Aaron Dalton
Jerry Rice's dream family theater. It's no secret that Jerry Rice is a man of many talents. The Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia notes that many people consider this man to be not only the best receiver of all time but perhaps even the best football player, period. Ever. Not only that, but Jerry Rice can dance. A contestant on the 2005–2006 season of Dancing with the Stars, Rice and his partner scored a second-place finish, proving that Rice can not only catch touchdowns while dancing away from would-be tacklers, he can also do a mean cha-cha. Filed Under: Pro Interiors $$$ Traditional Staff Picks Posted Tue Aug 28, 2007, 5:25 PM ET — By Adrienne Maxwell
Driven by his passion for movies, this homeowner truly went the distance to create his ideal home theater. So, you think you're a hard-core home theater fan? You read the A/V magazines, you can recite the performance differences between plasma and LCD in your sleep, and you constantly upgrade your system to make sure it features the hottest new technologies. That's admirable. But, until you're willing to build an entirely new home to accommodate your home theater, you ain't got nothing on this homeowner. Filed Under: Pro Interiors $$$ Traditional Posted Tue Aug 28, 2007, 5:01 PM ET — By Ford Gunter
How one couple pulled off a home theater that is completely independent from the house in which it resides. When Bob and Nancy Malone broke ground on their dream home in Lake Arrowhead, California, in 2002, they had no idea just how challenging it would be. Nancy's lifelong desire to have a home theater called for the help of Aaron Andrew of Audio Video Design (AVD), based in Mission Viejo, California, to design a home theater within, but structurally independent from, the 14,000-square-foot house. Aside from the three-hour round trip between Mission Viejo and Lake Arrowhead, Mother Nature threw her best at them, as well. After "the old fire" of 2003, which destroyed 350 houses in nearby Cedar Glen (and approached within feet of the back of the Malone house before a wind shift sent the flames east), the Malones faced a tremendous flood in December 2004, and then snow. As if that wasn't enough, the house's location on a mountainside presented a whole new set of logistical problems. After all was said and done, the project took three-and-a-half years to complete. Filed Under: Reader Interiors $ Traditional Posted Tue Aug 28, 2007, 4:45 PM ET — By Tom J. Slager, Homeowner
After several years of reading about the home theater experience, my family and I finally decided to convert some unused basement space into our own dedicated theater. Since I enjoy doing home-improvement projects, I chose to do most of the construction myself and to hire a reliable company to provide and integrate the audio/video components. I had constructed a small, built-in entertainment center a few years before in our home in Cincinnati, Ohio, but had never done a project as large as this. 1
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