Our Asian Creation...: Gold Class...

Another project that keeps dragging along is our home cinema.

Way back in February, I found the ideal colour that I wanted to paint both walls and ceiling in called, 'Raku' by 'Dulux'. Painting with such a dark colour, called for me to also paint (low sheen), the white skirtings and architraves in the same colour. It only took a day to do however, when I stepped back to look at my work...everthing looked perfect bar the ceiling, it looked bloody awful.

Roller marks were seen and spots were the plaster hadn't been sanded back properly, looked patchy and dark.

So Geoff gave it a shot (just to see if he could fix it), rolling another coat on and waiting until it was dry. We both looked at it at every angle and still weren't happy with it....grrrr.

Then Geoff found this brilliant 'how to' video on youtube here and got all the information we needed on how to do it properly.

Rolling another 3 coats...yes 3 (6 coats all up), we were finally satisfied.

I do recall Brian (SS) saying at hand over, that we will find all the imperfections of the plasterwork when using dark coloured paint. He was definitely right about that, as I saw it when I did the feature walls too, especially in the corners if only doing the back wall and not bringing it around to the front (think alcove or picture recess)..see this post here for a quick reminder.

So as the months keep flying by, we finally pulled our finger out and organised the set up of the screen and audio last month.

We had the same guys that installed everything in our last house, come back to hook the projector up, set up the IR audio equipment (hidden in the linen cupboard), see the layout here and had a 120cm screen installed complete with a flocked frame (stops light reflection), around the edge.

We totally love our new PUSH integrated system too which allows us to have full control of the entertainment system and lighting via our iPad and iPhone, see the interactive demo here

Now we can have our 'Movie' nights again...woohoo (sorry for the noise lovely neighbours), but pop that corn, lay the seats back and...play tha movie, yah play!

Now that brings me to this dilemma...grrr! Opting not to have shutters or blinds on the slimline window, I've found that sometimes it's not worth having high ceilings (ours are just under 9'), because you can't find any damn curtains that are long enough, especially if you want them above the window (right under bulkhead), like I do.

Having them this way, makes the ceiling look higher and the room look bigger so they say.

Given that the normal drop of curtains are usually around 210cm-230cm, which is fine for the platform end, but I need at least a 250cm drop for the rest of the wall which you can't find anywhere, until now!

So rather than paying a fortune to have them made, I've sourced some online here reasonably priced which will be perfect for what I want to do.

Now all I have to do, is work out what colour I want...black, red/plum...oh the decisions one has to make.

Here's a look at our home 'Cinema'...keep watching to see what we add next to create the perfect Cinema look