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#206565 - 24/02/2004 09:29 Home Cinema anyone?
furtive
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Registered: 14/08/2001
Posts: 886
Loc: London, UK
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#206566 - 24/02/2004 09:40 Re: Home Cinema anyone? [Re: furtive]
DWallach
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Registered: 30/04/2000
Posts: 3810
Does this guy live in Las Vegas or what? Wow. I'd love to have all that tech, but I don't know about the interior design.

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#206567 - 24/02/2004 09:45 Re: Home Cinema anyone? [Re: DWallach]
Cybjorg
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Registered: 23/12/2002
Posts: 652
Loc: Winston Salem, NC
I'm with you. It's a sweet setup, but I would have taken the interior design in a different direction.

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#206568 - 24/02/2004 09:51 Re: Home Cinema anyone? [Re: Cybjorg]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
Well, I agree, but I understand what he's doing. He made it look like an opulent theater from early in the movie era. But he did go overboard. At least it's not egg-crate walls.
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#206569 - 24/02/2004 10:07 Re: Home Cinema anyone? [Re: wfaulk]
Cybjorg
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Loc: Winston Salem, NC
Oh, I completely understand (and admire) what he was striving for. Here in Richmond, we have a golden-era theater called The Byrd. It has been well-maintained and is quite a joy to attend on occasion.

Upon closer inspection of his image gallery of the design and creation process, I have to admire his dedication to detail. I can't image how much that theater costs, but I would venture that it estimates more than my house is worth. The guy even had 300 fiber-optic stars hand threaded into the dome. Amazing!

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#206570 - 24/02/2004 10:09 Re: Home Cinema anyone? [Re: wfaulk]
genixia
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Registered: 08/02/2002
Posts: 3411
Wow. That must have cost a small fortune. Plaster columns cast into latex moulds moulded from custom hand-carved wax models. Not to mention the rather large fibre-glass dome ceiling with fibre-optic lighting. No expense spared there!
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#206571 - 24/02/2004 10:20 Re: Home Cinema anyone? [Re: genixia]
g_attrill
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Registered: 14/04/2002
Posts: 1172
Loc: Hants, UK
Pah, looks like he painted the gold on! I would have gone for proper gilding myself. If I could afford it. And a Wurlitzer theatre organ, but you would need a special extension for that.

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#206572 - 24/02/2004 10:22 Re: Home Cinema anyone? [Re: genixia]
burdell1
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Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 931
Loc: Minnetonka, MN
it doesn't really resemble the theaters from the Golden Age of movie theaters...it looks more like what Liberace's Home Theater would look like....

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#206573 - 24/02/2004 11:41 Re: Home Cinema anyone? [Re: furtive]
trs24
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Registered: 20/03/2002
Posts: 729
Loc: Palo Alto, CA
Wow - Fiber-optic stars in the dome ceiling - nice touch! Agree with everyone here, though - way too gaudy. I like the fact that after all of that ornate work, though, he uses IKEA media storage cabinets.

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#206574 - 24/02/2004 12:30 Re: Home Cinema anyone? [Re: DWallach]
Daria
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Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
Seattle, apparently.

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