 Filed Under: Reader Interiors $ Casual Posted Mon Jan 21, 2008, 12:44 PM ET — By Russ Klass
How I got a great basement home theater—without breaking the bank. I love to read about the great, inspirational dedicated theaters in the pages of Audio Video Interiors magazine. However, not everyone, including myself, can afford these sometimes expensive theaters. I thought AVI readers might like to see what a determined homeowner could do on a modest budget. We built our theater for the primary users, our three-person family, but we can add extra seating as needed. Filed Under: $ Reader Interiors Casual Posted Fri Jan 4, 2008, 11:26 AM ET — By Robert Barbiero
The Robelle: my labor of love. The dream of one day having a movie theater in my home was born in the summer of 1976. I was impressed by my friend Brian's dad's theater. It had a dozen or so of those old wooden seats that you'd find in a school auditorium. It had a separate projection booth for the Bell & Howell 16mm projector, and it had an actual stage, with speakers built into the walls. Filed Under: Casual Reader Interiors $ Posted Fri Dec 14, 2007, 12:03 PM ET — By Ron Wiechmann
How to start from scratch and achieve glory. The seeds for our home theater were planted in the mid-1980s, when the sun would shine through the curtains and put an incessant glare on the TV. I said on many occasions, "When I have a home built, I will have a TV room in the basement with no windows." In 1994, the idea of a home theater sprouted after I went to a home show in the Dayton, Ohio, area and saw a home theater with tiered seating, a 104-inch screen, a front projector, and a laserdisc player. As the idea grew, I was able to design the right-size room into the plans for our new home. Filed Under: Reader Interiors $ Posted Thu Oct 25, 2007, 12:11 PM ET — By Neil Chatani
This humble installation shows how far you can go with a little craftiness and some hand tools. Like any loyal Home Theater magazine reader, I've spent hours drooling over the kind of six-figure, floor-to-ceiling home theater installations that put many commercial movie theaters to shame. Such ultra-high-end equipment and installations are wonderful eye candy—and something to aspire to—but, for a 20-year-old college student, a more modest installation can still be a real treat. That's why this past Christmas, instead of getting my parents a store-bought gift, I designed and built this custom home theater installation in the family room of our house in Portland, Oregon. And the total cost was less than $4,500! Filed Under: Reader Interiors $ Contemporary Posted Fri Aug 31, 2007, 11:43 AM ET — By James Reedy
How I turned my passion for audio into my own theater. Ever since I can remember, I've always had a passion for music, and I've since become an audio enthusiast. When I was 12, my next-door neighbor introduced me to his Fisher stereo system. Then, several years later, I befriended another neighbor who used to work at a local radio station and had hundreds of records and 12-inch singles, as well as a high-end audio system. From there, it has been a constant hobby of mine. My desire for having a dedicated room for audio and video started when I met someone who'd built a dedicated home theater in his house. I bought my first home in 2002, and the work was set to begin. Filed Under: Reader Interiors $ Casual Posted Wed Aug 29, 2007, 2:08 AM ET — By Steve Barnard
How I did my homework and saved. When we moved into our first home a few years ago, I couldn't wait to get started finishing the basement. I told my wife I would wait a while before starting, but I was so excited that I could only hold out for a few weeks. The space is approximately 1,800 square feet, so I had plenty of room to let my imagination run. There were several things we wanted to put down there, like a workout room and a billiard room, but the one thing that really excited me was a dedicated home theater. I have been an avid reader of Audio Video Interiors for the past several years, so I had plenty of ideas about the experience I wanted to create. Filed Under: Reader Interiors $ Casual Staff Picks Posted Tue Aug 28, 2007, 4:54 PM ET — By Dave Curlee
The Beginning
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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