Added: Feb 8, 2012

From: EnvironmentsByDesign

Duration: 3:59

Our client lives in a golf community and were looking to renovate their unfinished basement. After experiencing our design center, the client "had to have" the Visual Sports Simulator in lieu of the putting green previously planned for the project. The investment and associated construction costs added over $60k to their project budget and necessitated a value-engineering approach to the theater. Our previous showroom had a theater room with a Showcase Cinema package by Acoustic Innovations that was not being used in our new showroom. Our solution involved recycling the acoustic panels, A/V furniture, and sconce lighting and building columns and soffits to match. This reduced costs for construction and acoustical treatments and provided the décor the client wanted, without sacrificing the quality of the electronics. Our challenges included a short construction deadline and several structural issues. The original basement had a height of 8'-0" with several columns running down the center of the basement that interfered with views and the seating area of the theater. Our design/build team installed a second beam adjacent to the originals to help distribute the load, enabling the removal of offending columns. The client needed seating for 8 requiring a riser. The ceiling height, compounded by the soffit covering the beams and housing the projector, was too low to walk underneath comfortably. Our solution placed the custom theater chairs in front of the soffit, away from the back wall. The clients stash bean bag chairs there for visiting kids to use. The projection screen wall had an extremely large and unsightly water meter projecting a foot out from the wall. We retrofitted the A/V furniture to hide the meter while housing the center channel speaker, subwoofer, and BluRay player. A Control4 remote, a Stewart Filmscreen 10' CinemaScope widescreen, Epson projector, and a 7.1 Bowers Wilkins speaker array completed the Home Theater. The Environments By Design team kept the project on schedule for the holidays and truly simplified the clients experience. We overcame the structural and budget challenges by removing columns, recycling products from our old showroom, and creatively altering the A/V furniture to hide the water meter. The client's expectations were exceeded in every aspect of their project. One of the client's most gratifying moments came when their entire family gathered for Thanksgiving to enjoy movies in their new home theater!

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