Need Your Advice...Home Theater...

[SavoBusa]

Okay, so I turned my "living room" into a home theater. It's pretty much perfect, even though it isn't finished. I still have a bunch of "mods" I want to do. One of the mods is enclosing the room in a bit, which is where ya'll come in. The opening for the room is quite large (since it was supposed to be a living room). I want to close it up either a little or completely to cut down on the loud noise resonating throughout the house when I am rockin' Rock Band 2! So, what would you recommend as a sweet way to close it up? I looked in Home Depot and got some ideas there, but I was wondering what you all thought. Here is a pic as is (it's a little messy right now):

 

[Djxtrodinaire]

maybe something like this? French doors
so if you have guest you can still open up the living room

 

[Jailbait]

I was thinking about the same thing,except maybe thick wood doors to keep the noise in one room. Just a thought.

 

[99'busa]

light control is key. if you go with french doors put some kind of blinds on the inside to be able to block out all light when doing movies.

 

[Hectic]

I'd say french doors that go with the aesthetic of your home, and hang a couple big pieces of sound dampening foam when you want to be loud.

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[djsin]

ah finally a question for me...I do home theaters and sound systems for a living...day job dj @ night
yes I agree that your only good option would be to use a double french door ...it doesn't really matter if its wood or glass, they both have 0 acoustic properties...lol and will reflect the sound in every direction, if you do the glass though you can dampen or deaden the sound by the use of those window shades someone else mentioned....as for your loud noises, you can put bass actuators on the bottoms of your couch or chair to give you that kick in the pants feel without disturbing the neighbors....me personaly I have a 2000 watt 18 inch Elecro voice MTL2 sub and a big amp !..lol Marantz head end...
I dont play rock star I'm one....lol
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[chrisrod]

I was thinking of the french doors also but the opening looks a little small (maybe not though) If not you could probably do a nice poket door. Thats just me though I like poket doors and you can get some nice wood doors and prob even glass but not sure about the glass though. If you put saround sound in make sure you snake the wires in the wall, put a nice wall plate on, and I would hang your speakers from the cieling. It's hot I always get a lot of compliments.

 

[Jailbait]

lol very nice.

 

[djsin]

you can use in wall speakers, but I don't recommend using the in ceiling ones ...unless you have too, you want the direction of the sound to be coming from the right places, that's why you don't see speakers in the ceiling @ your local movie theater....ceiling speakers are great for other rooms like kitchen,bedroom, bathroom etc...just not a first choice in a home theater....definatly hide those wires in the wall...