Welcome the The Oasis - First Blog Post
This is the first post to my ht blog. In this post I will try to recap everything that has happened since this project began...
overview
I've been interested in audio and video since I was a kid. I have dreamed of having a dedicated home theater for about 10 years. We finally took the plunge in 2002. With young children and my wife staying at home to care for them, spending a fortune on a home theater and getting ‘the best of everything’ was not an option for us. We set out to see if we could create a high quality, complete home theater for the price of a cheap used car (or a D-ILA projector alone). I think we succeeded.
The entire theater project came in well below our budget target and we had a great time putting it together. Now when the kids go to bed, we escape to The Oasis for a night at the movies!
how we got started
The project started in April 2002 with the conversion of my basement home office into a dedicated home theater space. The room was ideal for it. It’s located below a formal living room with no windows. A contractor completed the room for us shortly after our builder finished our home in August 1997. The contractor structured it as a ‘room within a room’ since we knew it was going to be a home theater someday. The room was painted a dark tobacco color with a sisal textured beige carpet. The decorating style is in keeping with the rest of the home. By keeping the same style, it allowed us to move furniture in from other parts of the house to furnish the theater. The theater feels like an extension of the rest of the home. The room is a small 11.5’ x 14’, so it feels like a personal and intimate space. This theater is really a personal cinema.
overview
I've been interested in audio and video since I was a kid. I have dreamed of having a dedicated home theater for about 10 years. We finally took the plunge in 2002. With young children and my wife staying at home to care for them, spending a fortune on a home theater and getting ‘the best of everything’ was not an option for us. We set out to see if we could create a high quality, complete home theater for the price of a cheap used car (or a D-ILA projector alone). I think we succeeded.
The entire theater project came in well below our budget target and we had a great time putting it together. Now when the kids go to bed, we escape to The Oasis for a night at the movies!
how we got started
The project started in April 2002 with the conversion of my basement home office into a dedicated home theater space. The room was ideal for it. It’s located below a formal living room with no windows. A contractor completed the room for us shortly after our builder finished our home in August 1997. The contractor structured it as a ‘room within a room’ since we knew it was going to be a home theater someday. The room was painted a dark tobacco color with a sisal textured beige carpet. The decorating style is in keeping with the rest of the home. By keeping the same style, it allowed us to move furniture in from other parts of the house to furnish the theater. The theater feels like an extension of the rest of the home. The room is a small 11.5’ x 14’, so it feels like a personal and intimate space. This theater is really a personal cinema.
posted by Steve at 3:28 PM
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