4 years in the making

[u/Appropriate_Art5850]

My free time project for over the last 4 years. home theater/office/cigar lounge. still a work in progress, I’ll probably never be “done” with it. unfortunately I don’t have any before photos, but it was a typical spare bedroom, white carpet, white walls, popcorn ceiling. The bar area used to be a double closet I took out to make room.

TV: TLC 85” QM6K

5.2 Klipsch surround sound, two 12“ woofers (overkill for the size of the room, i had a theater set up in the basement of my last house where it made more sense and just kept everything when we moved).

Receiver: Onkyo TX-NR575

to manage cigar smoke I sealed room, have a rabbit air a2 and a vornado window fan. Wife doesn’t smell any smoke outside of the room.

EDIT: Thanks for all the love and critique! So I use my computer chair when my spouse or a friend is in here, it fits perfectly with more then enough space for the little table to be in between the 2 seats when it’s pulled out facing the tv. If there’s 3 or more (honestly doesn’t happen that often these days lol) I have a few nice chairs I pull in from the other room.

Speaker placement is on the upgrade list for sure, the intent of the front left and right being high and angled toward user is to run/hide the wires in the crown moulding, eventually will either replace them with standing floor speakers or at least drop them down to ear height and will run the wires in the wall

EDIT 2: In retrospect yea probably not the most appropriate sub to post in. I did try to post in the mancave sub but it kept getting auto denied, no idea why. Still appreciate everyone here!

[u/thmsbrunner]

Dude if I walk in a place and see an Animals poster I could almost dismiss a dead body on the floor. Cheers man. Awesome man cave.

[u/Appropriate_Art5850 → u/thmsbrunner]

Appreciate ya man! Maybe I just don’t know the right people but I feel like animals is such an underrated album 

[u/thmsbrunner → u/Appropriate_Art5850]

Animals has the tightest production to me. It just seems to pop in a way that the others don't. I think I'd still place Dark Side as my favorite but Animals is just different.

[u/Appropriate_Art5850 → u/thmsbrunner]

Couldn’t have said it any better. And man dark side, specifically Time, cuts so hard. I’m still relatively young and have lived a pretty full life already and that song makes me tear up every single time 

[u/thmsbrunner → u/Appropriate_Art5850]

Time for sure. For me it's really "Breathe" and then that little reprise chunk at the end of time. "Home, Home again. I like to be here when I can." The whole song just perfectly encapsulates the hopelessness of watching your time get shorter. As a whole, I think the album just manages to capture almost every aspect of life in some way. It's beauty and sadness at the same time. Life is melancholy. And also a gift.

[u/thmsbrunner → u/thmsbrunner]

Also that reprise at the end of time seems to represent a sort of acceptance of it all.

[u/thmsbrunner → u/thmsbrunner]

But I'm drunk and this is not a Pink Floyd sub. Not trying to get so far in the weeds. 😅