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digitalayon · Joined: 02 Mar 2009 Posts: 921

I want both a mancave and a theater mix. Anyone have ideas or know of anyone on here that is/has done it? PIcs would be great!!!

MikeEby · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 5237 Location: Osceola, Indiana

Kal's old house was one of the nicest ones I've seen....Really tastefully done...Perhaps he can chime in with some images.

Mike

**kal** · Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 2:22 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the compliments! Pics of my old setup are here:

http://www.curtpalme.com/forum/album_personal.php?user_id=3

I'm not a huge fan of dedicated HTs. I like something that's a mix of bar/lounge/HT area even though I know it can compromise HT audio/video quality (mostly audio). I'm the design phase of my new basement now. Building tentatively starts in April and should take about 12 weeks. I'll be posting more pics. Edit: See here: http://www.theelectricbrewery.com/basement

Kal

AFryia · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:47 pm Post subject:

Another one here.
http://www.curtpalme.com/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=875&mode=next

UncleWill · Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 11:16 pm Post subject:

Working on it..

jeffslife · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 4190 Location: ohio usa

Damn, For a minute there I thought Mike was back.

dochlywd · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 12:48 pm Post subject:

Here's a few of mine. Some of them are kind of blurry because I had to take them in panoram mode with my phone.

Doc

Nashou66 · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 16171 Location: West Seneca NY

Yours is a true Hybrid theater Doc, CRT and Digital! nice!

Nashou

km987654 · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 3:09 am Post subject:

Beer and a Movie Thumbs Up

digitalayon · Joined: 02 Mar 2009 Posts: 921

nice pics guys.....what about games? I only have so much room......Not into billiard tables too much but love rod hockey and foosball. I WILL have those tables in the man cave.

Mr. Green · Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 9:52 pm Post subject:

A dedicated theater is cool but you need a pile of space. I personally think for a useful rec room I'd rather have a multifunction room.

I might not have the space here, but I'd love an "L" shaped area so I could have a wine room behind a wet bar, which backs onto a pool table area with maybe some arcade/ pinball machines, then a seating area and TV with consoles (in the corner) and around the corner have a theater area. Not huge but enough to seat 4-6. So maybe a 3 seater couch with arm chairs or loungers on each side. That way those watching a movie won't disrupt people talking, playing pool, etc...

Having said that half of my 6' crawl space is behind built in bookshelves. I'd love to put the theater in there. It's roughly 14x22 feet on that side. Low head room, but would be cool to have wine room/ theater behind a secret door. Would also help noise reduction. It's also not finished so could noise proof in there, run cables, etc...

Now if wifey can just keep from transferring back to Edmonton.

Now keep in mind basement has not been purged/ organized. It's embarrassing, been like that since the movers dumped everything down there (crawl space). It's on my list, but in order to potentially sell, I'm focusing upstairs for now.

Finger is pointing towards built in's. White post above boxes is end of basement on other side of wall.

In crawl space (yes It'll be cleaned up! lol) right of the steel post is where bookshelves back onto. Perfect entrance, wine room on left, then open to cozy screening room. Pool table could go where projector is now. Basically if you had 20 people over you could have enough space for people to do multiple things.