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1. King Kong Home Theater
Looking for a home theater experience that will make your
guests go ape?
Then check out this King Kong-inspired home theater setup by
Tom Spina designs, which comes complete with faux wood and stone front, giant
ape hands gripping each chair, and Kong himself peeking over the top of the TV
cabinet.
This furniture is sure to make watching old horror movies a
much more terrifying experience, and gives your home that all important theme
park vibe. It puts the fun in funky monkey! Link
2. Old Pool Home Theater
When you have a big house with many rooms, some of the rooms
are not used. So they don't remain empty you could do something useful, like
the owners of this Wisconsin home did with their unused indoor pool. They
decided that it could become a veritable home theater, and they did a really
great job of creating a spacious home theater with stadium-style seating. Link
3. Indiana Jones Home Theater
This amazing Indy-themed room was designed by home theatre
expert Doug Charrois, for Larry and Colleen Halliday in Canada. The room even
features replicas of the holy grail, a jacket, hat, whips, torches and
more—including the idol from the opening of the original movie. Link
4. Brabus Home Theater
This particular home theater is in a home on wheels, and
it's a Mercedes-Benz tuner Brabus theater. It has a 40-inch 3D model, which has
a Playstation 3, Internet connected Mac Mini, not to mention a lot of iPads. In
case you are wondering, there is also a Keurig coffee machine, in case you need
some extra energy.
Just to let you know, this Brabus has a 6.1 liter V-8 that
will bring this theater from 0 to 60 in six seconds. I once heard about home
theater buses, and this one certainly goes a whole lot faster, even though it
probably doesn't hold as many people. It's good that it has 3D and looks quite
comfortable. Link
5. Inflated High End Home Theater
This cool inflatable outdoor home theater inflates in about
5 minutes with its own built-in fan. The gigantic screen is 16 by 13 ft. and it
includes a DVD player, a high-output DLP projector, dual 15-inch speakers with
stands, a microphone, and all of the required cables. It's basically like
having an outdoor home theater in a box, but this “little kit” will
set-you-back about $10,000. Set up this outdoor theater in your backyard, and
you'll be the most popular house on the block. Link
6. Terminator Home Theater
This is, without a doubt, one of the coolest home theater
setups ever. Electronic House featured this Terminator inspired home theater
recently. I've got to say, Darren Mortenson, the man behind this particular
piece of theater magic, is a genius. It's designed to look like a sci-fi set
and includes a bunch of cool little props and pieces of memorabilia. The
project was put together on a reasonable budget. Looking at the products in the
component list, there is nothing there that is outlandishly expensive. The DIY aspect
makes this project incredibly cool. You see people outsourcing this kind of
thing all the time, but Mortenson did it himself and became a licensed CEDIA
installer in the process. The 159-inch screen ought to make his favorite movies
on the screen seem larger than life. Link
7. Radio City Music Hall Home Theater
James Biber, an architect and partner at Pentagram, has
designed this home theater in Montauk, N.Y., inspired by Radio City Music Hall.
The home theater, which takes up 350 square feet in a 1,500-square-foot
basement, had to have soundproofing and dimmable lights, and the client wanted
seating on the floor.
What impresses me most about this home theater is the
lighting, which is hidden in the arches facing the stage. 600 five-watt
dimmer-controlled light bulbs are installed but the light is very soft. On the
dimmest setting, the lights prevent the theater from being completely dark. Link
8. Paris Home Theater
Jason Crist wanted to bring some Paris back to his home in
Nashville, so he hired designer Donny Hackett to build an incredible
Paris-themed home theater. It comes complete with a "ceiling structure
[that] was modeled after a rose window in the Notre Dame cathedral." Link
9. Rotating Home Theater
Now isn't this one of the coolest home theaters you have
ever come across? The front row seats rotate a full 180 degrees at the touch of
a button, facing the second row so that the room instantly transforms into a
social-friendly setting. The 16-foot circle of flooring comes equipped with a
quartet of motors and several wheels right below the floor's steel frame in
order to achieve this. Other than this apparent novelty, you also get a 7.1
channel audio system and a 12-foot wide custom-built screen that has been
perforated with small holes in order to let the sound through. Sounds expensive
to me, which is why I didn't even bother to ask about the price. Link
10. Pirates of the Caribbean Home Theater
Built at a cost of $2.5 million, this Pirates of the
Caribbean-inspired home theater definitely looks the part. Unfortunately, you
won't find any lifelike animatronics in the theater. Link
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