Re: AV & Media Room Design

[Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try something like this.  Find a house that has a room with a large
closet, with the closet on a wall that is shared with a room that would
be an acceptable room for watching TV.

If your TV is a plasma or LCD that you can hang on the wall, hang it in
the viewing room on the shared wall, and put the equipment in the
closet, and connect through the wall.

If the TV is one that you can't hang on the wall, put it in the closet,
facing the wall, and cut a viewport in the wall.  As above, put your
gear in the closet.

If your gear needs access from the viewing room (e.g., to insert DVDs
into the DVD player), you can cut more holes in the wall, and build
shelves that hold the equipment such that the front panels are in the
viewing room but the backs are in the closet.

You only have to give up a closet this way.

For anything you need other than the viewing room (e.g., music for the
bedroom), run the connections from the AV closet up through the attic,
to the destination, and down.

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--Tim Smith