My Basement Home Theater

2009-11-22T08:25:00.001-08:00

Every home theater enthusiast dreams of having that space they can call their own, to have friends over for the game or get blasted back in their seat with the latest action flick. When we decided to finish our basement, it was time to turn it up notch. We designed two spaces a game room area and a combination bar 'home theater'.

Living in the Baltimore area, you can't have a basement without a Raven's wall.

This is a neat trick that we saw in a model home. Many basements have those small 'half windows' just above ground level. In this instance I just framed a full window, put some rope lighting behind it with shutters on the front and it gives the illusion of a full window.

The component rack was made out of melamine that you can buy at your local hardware store with pre-drilled holes for shelves. Drawers were made with standard pine and full extension brackets. The door and drawer fronts are also pine with smoked glass. The finish is Bombay Mahogany PolyShades.

Here is another view of the component rack with the drawers pulled out. I made the drawers to specially fit the length of two DVDs.

The component rack was placed under the stairs to make it easier to get to the wires in the back.

Of course you start off trying to make your wires all nice and neat and then.... GIVE UP!

Equipment consists of an Audio Source 60W amp for the four speakers in the game room. An old BSR equalizer that actually doesn't really do anything but provide a cool display (everyone likes 'blinky lights'). Denon head unit AVR2807, Samsung BDP1600 BluRay player, and DirectTV HR21 DVR.