Building a Home Theater from Scratch: 4K, 7.2.2, Dolby Atmos

A run-through of our Home Theater Build, which started out as a concrete slab! ALL the components- the screen, the seating, and more! #hometheater #valencia #atmos

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00:00 Intro
00:48 Framing Considerations
01:22 Planning for the Projector and Audio
02:53 Media Cabinets and First Setup
04:36 Yamaha TSR-700 Receiver Setup
05:45 7.2.2 Speakers
06:55 4K Projector
08:39 Theater Seating
12:14 To Do List

[ThomasGregan]

Hey, I'm a complete nerd over HT and AV so here's some pointers:
1. For your blinds you want "Cheap and easy DIY automated roller shades" by smart home mastery. You need blackout fabric and need to motorize it, then you need to build tracks on the left and right so there's no light leakage.
2. For remote you want the Logitech Harmony HUB with whichever hub remote you like. This is discontinued but will keep getting support for a few more years. It can be integrated with smart devices. There's no other remote like this for DIY folks. Everything else will be expensive or "dumb". Only good ones are savant and Control4 but they have to be set up by dealer and serviced by them ($$$$).
3. Extra tip, if you could black out around the screen and even the inside of the cabinet towards the screen it will help a LOT with the image quality and reflections. You will want triple black velvet plush fabric from syfabrics, its the best in the biz for cheap :)
Good luck and looking forward to an update video.

[wthomas]

Omgosh! So happy to find your channel. I'm helping my sister and her husband in designing and eventually installing their first home theater room in their basement. Budget is of course very important...know when to save and when to splurge. I completely agree with buying used or refurbished products. My initial theater set up cost me less than $800 for the audio and visual and was quite satisfying by using products sourced from eBay and FB marketplace. By the way, the matte around the screen is ESSENTIAL! I couldn't believe what a difference Sherwin Williams Cashmere flat paint in Tricorn Black and some black velvet type material around the sides of the screen made my older Epson seem like it was delivering crisp edges. Took a day to paint and trim the edges of the screen with the fabric. Tricorn black is the perfect true black and the Cashmere paint by SW has self leveling agents that makes a deep tone look 100% saturated with no blotching. Keep up the great vids. We'll be digging into your archives for inspiration! Thanks again.

[thisoldchitboxx]

I work nights, both telemetry and ems, so a dark room is critical for good sleep.
I extended a shower curtain rod and tucked it as snug as I could into the window frame, with blackout curtains bigger than the frame, the extra material fills the gaps, and I am able to easily allow light in during the day.

[iSleepDoc]

This is how a real life home theater looks like👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Affordable, great sounding and beautiful!!!!

[gordoa]

I love that You Did This! And the most important part is that Your Family loves it 💪! Awesome sauce my man! Enjoy for many years to come!

[tastylumpkin]

I live in Alaska and blacking out bedrooms is a big deal up here with 20+ hours of sunlight in the summer. Last year we upgraded our bedroom blinds to cell shades, that + blackout curtains and our rooms are black in the summer. If you really want to get fancy you can install a magnet strip around your window frame (then paint over it to match your wall) and attach the other side of the magnet to the edge of your blackout curtain so it will "snap" to the wall and stop all light. Also, you can get much thicker blackout curtains than the ones you showed, ours don't allow any light through but you do still need better blinds because the light will glow out of the top/sides.

[larryallard]

In addition to the black border, you need to eliminate the light reflected back onto the screen and into your eyes from the white sides of the shelving units and the ceiling directly adjacent to the screen. I used black fleece drapes and the same fleece glued to the ceiling, extending 8’ from the screen, and it does a terrific job. Use black felt tape for your border; I don’t believe you can find any black paint that will be as non- reflective as black felt or black fleece.

[guisousa]

00:28 Sir, congratulations. Every Brazilian loves Guaraná antartica!

[Chris-hruj]

Wow very well planned out and awesome theater. Looks amazing, good audio equipment

[bigsiegee]

I know I've come in pretty late to this conversation. I was talking to a German the other day who was talking about roller-shutters. Basically, a rolling shutter on the outside of the window that winds down from the inside. Completely blocks out the light if done right. Search - 'rolling external window shutters' to get an idea. Some of them pretty slick.

[bhrugutrivedi]

Harmony hub would work best to control all of your equipment 👍🏻👍🏻👌

[greenbrierjournal]

I would use a privacy film or window tinting to block out the light in addition to your blackout curtains.

[CorpseCallosum]

Concrete will not only stop sound from going through, but it will also completely black out your windows. Concrete FTW!

[khurram]

Unplug the Bose ASAP and check their impedance. Small speakers part of a home theater in a box have very low impedance. Your receiver most likely isn't rated to handle them.

[MarshallAmpMan]

Way cool... wish you lived near me so you could make recommendations to my tiny little home studio

[originlgazza]

so you didn't go with the nebula projector after all 😎😎

[rruizproductions]

Great setup! I use an hdmi switch controlled by IR control to accommodate Firestick and DVD player. Added a Logitech Harmony hub and linked it to Alexa for voice commands through activities menu in app. Recently added an Optoma laser projector which is amazing. Great video to help others.

[MattyDaddy]

Great video and advice for going the diy route! Thanks. It looks like you figured out the remote situation, now I’m hoping you get more into HT and show us how to go back and require for a full 7.2.4 or more speaker setup! As well as utilizing more than 2 subs (in-wall, wireless, on walk, etc).

We haven’t started building yet, but would be cool to see how you go back and “step-up” to the next level HT for diy on the cheap :) maybe give examples of how to retrofit or take advantage of a basement already finished but not wired for HT

Lastly, I know this is budget diy HT, but i think you should def make a trip to RBH in Layton to see what it COULD be. 🎉. Maybe make it all diy speakers or flat packs? I dunno. Just like the way you present stuff on your channel without all the extra Bs along with it. 🎉

[donmorton]

Excellent video and excellent motivation.

[HeoMoi]

Did you just hook up direct from Bose cube speakers to the receiver as atmos speakers?