

Screen: Stewart Filmscreen Vistascope custom 2-way masking 153 ½ x 64 inches, 2.40:1 native.Subwoofers: KYPG (Keith Yates Products Group) QUAD 15-2.Weirdly, it actually fits the story… the room is still waiting for another layer of its ancient story to be peeled back, exposed to the light. In the end, the blotchy, polished concrete floor I’d spec’d was covered in gray carpet. The machine-like feel of my original Game Room sketches and renderings remained more or less intact. The new interior designer had other ideas, so the paranormal/Cthulhu theme was shelved.

The project was shelved for some years, then sputtered back to life. He explained that it came from an HP Lovecraft story in the 1920s and that I should read it. The client loved the general idea, asked if we could add an octopus/dragon-like Cthulhu theme in the Gaming Room, maybe a graphic representation embossed on the chairs or something. Within a few years they’d all fled in fear. Many notes described an eerie, low-level infrasonic hum that gave everyone the creeps, creating high turnover among the archeologists and technologists sent there. On the wall of the Rack Room were hooks and hard hats that said “Stanford Research into Paranormal Phenomena” along with clipboards with hand-written, dated entries that told an unsettling story. There was a plexiglass covering over the gash. The excavated gash continued from the Rack Room into the Gaming Room. There were old looking pipes and conduits running through it, and at the bottom of the gash, maybe 2 feet down, there was a partially exposed, ancient, bony, alien-looking creature with glowing, beady eyes. I said, well, I saw a fairly large, dimly lit transition space for equipment racks etc., but something else as well, something sort of weird: A big, messy gash seemed to have been hammered and chiseled out of the concrete floor. The client asked whether I knew that, in fact, he collected old stone Buddha statuary. The brief started out with a list of its intended uses – about 50% internet gaming with his kids, 40% movies, 10% music listening - but not its theme or mood.Īt one point I mentioned that I imagined a large, weathered old stone Buddha statuary. Dragonfly Ultra AcoustiWeave Acoustically transparent screen.There’s really no chance of anyone ever getting bored down here, and money saved by going the DIY route just double’s the installation’s value.
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Bar-style seating is used in the bar area facing both the TV and the theater’s Dragonfly Ultra AcoustiWeave Acoustically transparent projection screen, allowing for plenty of viewing flexibility for small or larger gatherings.Īside from the bar, another advantage to the basement theater’s open design is there’s lots of room for other forms of entertainment, with a Nintendo Ultimate Arcade game and card and pool tables located in the adjacent space. As Dreamedia’s Zachary Geringer says in his video demonstration of the space, the theater “is on-point” for 2021, the year the video was shot, with regular sofa seating and white wainscotting and trim, yet enough light control in the space to get the best from the system’s Epson 6050UB projector, which has a 2,600 lumens brightness spec.Ī Denon AVR-X2500H AV receiver provides multiple HDMI outputs to feed both the main projector and a flat-panel TV located in the adjacent bar area. This basement open-space home theater is a DIY project that the owner carried out using the installation and product advice found on AV retailer Dreamedia Home Theater’s YouTube channel. New Jersey basement open space – Dreamedia Home Theater


The theater, which seats up to 45 people, features both a balcony and main auditorium and is lined by Corinthian columns with silver leaf accents.
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For designer Lisa Slayman, the inspiration for this opulent home movie palace came from the glamorous era of 1930s Hollywood.
